Symmetry Autumn of Code

[Mike Franklin]

On Sunday, 22 July 2018 at 16:33:10 UTC, Zheng (Vic) Luo wrote:

> I'm interested in the "Graphics library for resource 
> constrained embedded systems" project and have some spare time 
> this autumn, but I have some questions:
> - Does this project aim at creating a hardware-agnostic 
> rasterizer supporting a few primitives like https://skia.org/ 
> or implementing a full GUI library like emWin rendering widget 
> and handling I/O events such as mouse? The latter one sounds a 
> little bit challenging to finish in four months

I'm JinShil, the one who proposed the idea.

As far as I'm concerned, if you're doing the work, you can make 
it into whatever you'd like, but I would consider a basic 2D, 
anti-aliasing rasterizer to be a success.  I have in mind 
something like http://www.antigrain.com or Skia.  A bonus would 
be a font renderer that leverages the aforementioned rasterizer 
(See also 
https://medium.com/@raphlinus/inside-the-fastest-font-renderer-in-the-world-75ae5270c445).

The software should be efficient enough to use on embedded 
systems like https://github.com/JinShil/stm32f42_discovery_demo  
Under that constraint, you'd probably want to try to accomplish 
the task with the -betterC-like subset of the language 
(https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html).  That being said, there's 
no reason the software couldn't be used on a PC with resources to 
spare, and it would probably be easier to do the development on a 
PC and just verify the implementation on an microcontroller 
periodically.

I, myself, don't have much experience in graphics, so I don't 
know if I'd be a very good mentor, but if you have any questions 
about the goal or use case for the project, let me know.

> - In the past year I primarily wrote C++ and don't have much 
> experiences with production-level D programming, can I get 
> involved into this program?

I think much of your experience with C++ will carry forward to D, 
but there will still be a learning curve.

Mike