[Blindmath] A Question of Shape

[Andrew Stacey]

What sort of output would you want for these shapes, and what exactly are the
shapes?

LaTeX can do graphics and, in particular, in a "programmatic" fashion.  For
postscript output, there's the PSTricks library.  For PDF, postscript, and
SVG, there's the PGF library.  PSTricks can do a little bit more because
postscript can do a little more than PDF and SVG.

If you could describe a little more precisely what you want, and what output
would be acceptable, I could mock-up something quite quickly.

Andrew

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:34:22PM -0400, Christine Szostak wrote:
> Hi All,
>   I have sort of an unusual question that I was wondering if anyone here
>   might be able to provide some suggestions for.
> 
>   For a project in my lab, I need to create grids of shapes ranging in size
>   from 2x2 through 10x10. I was wondering if:
> 
> a)  there is a way to do this without vision in something like
> Excel/Word/PowerPoint... while ensuring that shapes are placed properly.
> 
> b)  Has anyone  here attempted something like this without vision using
> programming (e.g., mostly to automate the process, since shape location
> needs to be pseudorandomized) and how much success did you have without
> vision in doing so?