WARNING

This page is under construction.

Bluefish has three kinds of primitives: marks, relations, and special.

Marks

A mark is a basic visual element. Bluefish's marks are mostly thin wrappers around SVG primitives. However, unlike in SVG, in Bluefish a mark's position and size are often omitted, because they are determined by relations instead.

• Circle
• Ellipse
• Image
• Path
• Rect
• Text

Relations

A relation is a visual arrangement of elements. Bluefish's relations are inspired by Gestalt relations including uniform density, alignment, common region, and connectedness.

• Align
• Arrow
• Background
• Distribute
• Group
• Line
• Stack

Special

Bluefish provides additional primitives for overlapping relations, composing new marks and relations, and creating new mark and relation primitives.

• Bluefish
• Ref
• withBluefish
• Layout