Graphics Library for D

[dajones]

"Adam Wilson" <flyboynw at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:op.w9d7xdpk707hn8 at invictus.skynet.com...
> 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.

I really dont know why this algorithm is not better known but it's very 
fast, good quality and very simple to implement. I knocked up my own version 
in a couple of days (aprox 500 LOC for the rasterizer, and a bunch of asm 
for the line blitters). It has speed/quality comparisions with GDI+ and AGG 
on the website. There's C++ source code IIR, dont know about the licence.

http://mlab.uiah.fi/~kkallio/antialiasing/