Graphics Library for D

[Adam Wilson]

On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:56:18 -0800, finalpatch <fengli at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 23:29:59 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> Even with a full port of 2.4 to D it would still fall under the BSD  
>> 3-Clause license which is not Boost compliant IIRC. So it will never  
>> end up in Phobos. If I am missing something let me know, because a  
>> Phobos Software Renderer is a good idea.
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> We don't necessarily have to port AGG to D. Instead, I suggest we  
> produce something that resembles its design (a set of very flexible  
> components that can be put together through template instantiation at  
> compile time), but in idiomatic D.  With the power of D, the group  
> wisdom of the community, and the lessons learned from AGG and other  
> prior projects, it's very possible we can produce something even more  
> impressive than AGG. Since it's a pure software renderer, the scope of  
> the project will be a lot more manageable than GPU based solutions.

Well, actually software renderers are terribly complicated beasts and so  
probably wouldn't reduce the actual scope. And they require a lot of  
mathematical knowledge that can be hard to come by, I certainly don't have  
it. So if someone is willing to start writing one in D we'd be happy to  
include support for it in Aurora. But I think we should continue with the  
GPU based solutions because they are easier to work with and the  
knowledge-base is more extensive.

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Aurora Project Coordinator