Malte Clasen wrote:
Tom Brinkman wrote:
A nice idea is to fork AntiGrain 2.4 into something Boost-like and integrate it with GIL. If I had time to spare, this is what I would do. [...] Working with experts in functional programming like yourself, using GIL as a base, developing a graphics library for simple primitves, such as lines, circles and polygons would be a trivial matter, and its already basically finished.
It may be trivial for simple primitives, but implementing a feature set comparable to AntiGrain with equivalent performance is far from that.
Anti-grain is a half-finished library which works well in areas. However, I'm persuaded that GIL is the library upon which I think will ultmiately prevail.
AntiGrain is written in a quite generic way, so replacing the included pixel storage back-end with GIL should be possible with reasonable effort. The strongest feature in AntiGrain is the fast high-quality rasterization, which is independent of the underlying image representation.
Yes, that's exactly what I did in my review of GIL. See my other post. Regards, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boost-consulting.com http://spirit.sf.net