The next version of Cairo...
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| ... will have native OpenGL support. Which is kind of exciting, I think :-) |
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| Cool! Any idea when? I only ask because I am about to take on a project that I thought about using Cairo for. |
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| Using this Module for real time game or application is conceivable ? I would love to create vectorial project. Like world of Goo rendering style (don't exactly know if it's vector or raster). |
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| As well as GL, it has other new surfaces, such as XML and Script - both of which are text format descriptions of the drawing. At least it all appears to build and link (on Mac, although I had to hack the GL header because Mac headers are in a different location - Which leads me to believe they've not tested this on Mac yet... ho hum). |
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| so, basically it will be faster? |
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| Exciting indeed. |
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| so, basically it will be faster? I've no idea. One would hope so. |
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| The outline mode of Inkscape uses Cairo, but if you are unsure whether Cairo is fast enough, here is a really quick stress test (open up in Inkscape and then go to outline mode, and pan around and move points): moderately complex vector graphic I have no idea which version of Cairo they are using, so I cannot say if it is hardware-accelerated or not. But OpenGL in Cairo depends on glitz, and glitz docs are notoriously poor. |
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| But OpenGL in Cairo depends on glitz, and glitz docs are notoriously poor. Indeed they are. But there's a new backend which doesn't use glitz, and is hopefully much easier to use. |
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| Ah, I hadn't heard about that. It looks like OpenVG will be supported too. http://www.cairographics.org/OpenGL/ Yay! Awesome, Brucey, awesome! I have one question for you, though: why don't you sell certain of these modules and give some percentage of the earnings to BRL? Or, just sell certain of these modules? I really don't care whatever you do with them, it's still awesome. |
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| OpenVG - The Standard for Vector Graphics Acceleration Interesting stuff ! I wonder how fast OpenVG is. No offence but I think it's rather BRL that should contribute to Brucey module :) Do Bjarne Stroustrup receive any percentage of any software produced with C++ for using his language ? Don't think so. At least there is a donate PayPal functionality :) |
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