Mitch Richling: Example Postscript Programs
| Author: | Mitch Richling |
| Updated: | 2023-11-16 |
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Postscript is more than an just a vector image file format, it is a programming language. As a programming language, it may be exploited to great advantage for mathematical illustrations as has been so well documented in Bill Casselman's book. On this page are a few basic examples to get you started.
Get it all on github: https://github.com/richmit/ex-postscript/
2. Computational Postscript and Nonlinear Dynamics
lorenz1.ps- Computes a projection of Lorenz's famous strange attractor!
lorenz2.ps- Computes a projection of Lorenz's famous strange attractor in COLOR!
mandelbrot.ps- Computes an image of the Mandelbrot set. Note that this one can take a while to run.
3. Watermarks for LaTeX documents
I like to include a watermark on my draft documents that identify them as drafts. Here is a nice way to create such watermarks that always scale with no
artifacts and require only a very tiny quantity of code to implement. I include them in my documents via the AddToShipoutPicture command.
draftBig.eps- A single large "DRAFT" is spread across the entire page diagonally in red.
draftTiny.eps- Tiny copies of the word "DRAFT" are spread across the entire page in red.
draftBoth.eps- A combination of the previous two — i.e. one big "DRAFT" and many little ones in red.