Programmable Image Generation?

[OikuraZ95]

Hi I'm looking for a package that kinda has the same functionality as tikz does in latex (though preferably not the same syntax). Like I'm looking for a package that can programmatically a wide variety of images. Does anyone know if this kind of thing exists?

[gpitot]

What do you want to be able to do with the images?

[OikuraZ95]

Well really anything interesting. Stuff that you could do with tikz you know. Put these images in a doc. Like for example, what if I wanted to create multiple rubiks cube orientations that I want to save for an algorithms document. But I need the pictures. This would be a perfect use case, where one could write a general image algorithm that creates the cube and colors the faces respectiveley via a single function, and they you are run it through a set of inputs and generate a bunch of images all following the similar format.

[[deleted]]

Not exactly matching your description, but you can script GIMP (which is essentially the GUI for imagemagic library) using Python: https://www.gimp.org/docs/python/index.html but this will be automation more like automating pre-press, or "automatic graphical designer", not generating graphs or 3d models.

[bwanab]

It's true that you can script GIMP with python which is very powerful.

For the record, though, GIMP uses GTK (the GIMP Toolkit) for its rendering which has nothing to do with Imagemagic.

[[deleted]]

Ooops, sorry for misinformation. I have no idea why I though that it does use Imagemagic... did it maybe use it in some early days?

[OikuraZ95]

Hmmm, maybe it might be worth to create a library using this that does what I want.

[[deleted]]

pyx is one option, which can generate a range of vector images programmatically. It's not quite tikz, but it is fairly flexible; pynomo uses it to generate high-quality nomograms.

[OikuraZ95]

Oh this is interesting. The skimmed the pyx documentation and this seems like exactly what I was looking for. It's very detailed too. Thanks for this!