OpenVG bindings

[ddos via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 4 April 2015 at 09:24:29 UTC, Baz wrote:
> On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 22:53:51 UTC, ddos wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> today i've created my first dlang library ^_^ a binding to the 
>> OpenVG library standard. The referenced implementation is 
>> ShivaVG which allows to draw vector graphics within an OpenGL 
>> context (similar to cairo).
>> A small demo application is included, using derelict gl3 and 
>> glfw3
>>
>> https://github.com/oggs91/OpenVG_D
>> http://code.dlang.org/packages/dopenvg
>
> Thx. I'll give it a try because it matches something i've 
> started last week. I could use Cairo but a few years ago i've 
> already gave up something similar because of the bad 
> performances (Cairo is made and dedicated to inkscape, isn't it 
> ?). Are OpenVG perfs better?
> This lib is quite unknown btw.

I think the reason for this is that vector graphics are mainly 
used for drawing userinterfaces and illustrations like pdf file, 
svg file, etc. Here performance isn't much of a problem so there 
isn't any need for change. Cairo is imho a quasi standard and 
didn't change much since long time.
Since I use OpenGL I recently looked into OpenVG and it has a 
really clean and easy to understand renderpipeline and api. 
Khronos created a specification for OpenVG, but there aren't many 
(open) implementations yet. Some mobilephone manufacturers have 
implementations for their devices, like nokia.

Since you are interested in performance i think going with any 
hardware accelerated vector graphics library should work out for 
you. ShivaVG or cairo with a opengl backend (there are lots of 
different backends)