On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 6:03 PM Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As most mechanism are reasonable okay now we can look into what future
> versions of ConteXt should provide in terms of functionality. The
> (luatex) engine is also more of less finished or at least stable in
> terms of functionality.
>
> One possible area of further development is graphics so I'd like to know
> if there are (reasonable) demands for more graphics support using
> metapost. Alan and I are on-and-off working on some extensions and one
> of the things we discuss is visualization of data. The question is of
> course what should be done in the lua/mp/tex combination and what
> externally but the combination has some advantages. There has been
> presentations and discussions at the last meeting and graphics is always
> a nice topic, and also kind of rewarding in terms of development.
>
> Of course other demands can be formulated too, but these then need to
> come with well defined descriptions (or mockup examples).
>
> Hans
>
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Hi,

I don't know if what I describe below is along the lines you ask for,
but here comes two wishes:

1) Full support for drawing implicit curve plots. For some curves,
like a lemniscate
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemniscate_of_Bernoulli) one can easily
succeed by using a parametrisation, but sometimes one end up with
equations and to find a parametrisation might be difficult (not to say
impossible).