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ChalkBoard: Mapping Functions to Polygons

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Implementation and Application of Functional Languages (IFL 2009)

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ChalkBoard is a domain specific language for describing images. The ChalkBoard language is uncompromisingly functional and encourages the use of modern functional idioms. ChalkBoard uses off-the-shelf graphics cards to speed up rendering of functional descriptions. In this paper, we describe the design of the core ChalkBoard language, and the architecture of our static image generation accelerator.

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  1. Information Technology and Telecommunication Center, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Kansas, 2335 Irving Hill Road, Lawrence, KS, 66045, USA

    Kevin Matlage & Andy Gill

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Seton Hall University, 400 South Orange Avenue, 07079, South Orange, NJ, USA

    Marco T. Morazán

  2. School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, AL10 9AB, Hatfield, Herts, UK

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Matlage, K., Gill, A. (2010). ChalkBoard: Mapping Functions to Polygons. In: Morazán, M.T., Scholz, SB. (eds) Implementation and Application of Functional Languages. IFL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6041. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16478-1_4

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