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Author(s) -
John Lumley
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
geology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1365-2451
pISSN - 0266-6979
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2451.1995.tb00905.x
Subject(s) - citation , line (geometry) , library science , information retrieval , computer science , geology , mathematics , geometry
As a retirement 'hobby', somewhat removed from the computing milieu, the author has started building a model railway in his garden. Surveying the extant tools for designing such layouts and nding them “not quite right”, he started building a design tool himself, using the familiar technologies of XSLT3 and SVG executing in a browser, employing Saxon-JS as the processing platform. By adding animations, the tool expanded beyond simple design to in e fect become an active model train system. The results of this were demonstrated, with some success, at Markup UK in 2018. This paper describes the design of this tool in some detail, as well as possible developments since that demonstration.