Earcut polygon triangulation

[Ferhat Kurtulmuş]

On Sunday, 23 February 2020 at 16:20:09 UTC, Ahmet Sait wrote:
> On Sunday, 23 February 2020 at 10:07:44 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş 
> wrote:
>> For those who are interested in game programming, geospatial 
>> things, 2D graphics etc. Earcut is a polygon triangulation 
>> library originally written in js and ported to almost every 
>> popular language (except D). I was playing around with my 
>> hobby sdl game and needed to draw some concave polygons. So, I 
>> have just ported the lib (suitable for betterC). My initial 
>> tests showed that it is fast that can be used for real-time 
>> rendering. If you have a function that can draw triangles, you 
>> can draw concave/convex any polygon which can also have holes.
>>
>> https://github.com/mapbox/earcut.hpp
>> https://github.com/aferust/earcut-d
>
> Out of curiosity, why would you need to triangulate polygons 
> instead of using stencil buffer? I'm assuming you're using 
> OpenGL (or something similar) since you talked about your hobby 
> game. Any advantage of triangulating shapes? (anti-aliasing 
> maybe?)
I am not using opengl, but just sdl for no reason. I am trying to 
make a clone of a particular type of game namely wolfied, qix, or 
gals panic. Actually, I did it using cocos2dx (clipping node does 
the trick) in js few years ago. But this time I am trying to 
reclone it using just d and sdl by going bare metal. The ultimate 
target is running it on the browser maybe using dscripten.