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    <p>I'm working on a Haskell program for playing spatial games: I have a graph of a bunch of "individuals" playing the Prisoner's Dilemma, but only with their immediate neighbors, and copying the strategies of the people who do best.</p> <p>I've reached a point where I need to draw an image of the world, and this is where I've hit problems. Two of the possible geometries are easy: if people have four or eight neighbors each, then I represent each one as a filled square (with color corresponding to strategy) and tile the plane with these. However, I also have a situation where people have six neighbors (hexagons) or three neighbors (triangles).</p> <p>My question, then, is: <strong>what's a good Haskell library for creating images and drawing shapes on them?</strong> I'd prefer that it create PNGs, but I'm not incredibly picky. I was originally using <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/gd/3000.4.0/doc/html/Graphics-GD.html" rel="noreferrer">Graphics.GD</a>, but it only exports bindings to functions for drawing points, lines, arcs, ellipses, and non-rotated rectangles, which is not sufficient for my purposes (unless I want to draw hexagons pixel by pixel*). I looked into using <code>foreign import</code>, but it's proving a bit of a hassle (partly because the polygon-drawing function requires an array of <code>gdPoint</code> structs), and given that my requirements may grow, it would be nice to use an in-Haskell solution and not have to muck about with the FFI (though if push comes to shove, I'm willing to do that). Any suggestions?</p> <p>* That <em>is</em> also an option, actually; any tips on how to do that would also be appreciated, though I think a library would be easier.</p> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> Thank you all so much for your suggestions. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get all of gtk2hs's required libraries to build, which ruled out a lot of solutions. For a variety of reasons, after I tried all your answers, failed to install a number of libraries and found that others could not do what I wanted, I ended up deciding to just export more of an FFI for libgd and used that instead.</p>
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    1. COpossible duplicate of [Haskell library for 2D drawing](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5612201/haskell-library-for-2d-drawing)
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