On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:33 PM, <hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 03:52:03PM +0100, Øyvind Kolås wrote: >> 2010/4/8 Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >> On 4/7/10, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote: >> >>> Here's my Cairo rendering proposal. I made it public so that all >> >>> people can comment. >> >> (linking to archived mail instead of full quoting original message) >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/33871 >> >> To me this looks like a good approach for a cairo based renderer for >> inkscape, since I maintain GEGL which could possibly considered an >> alternative I'll post some thoughts on whether GEGLs rendering model >> could possibly fit into inkscape. (Note, until the last paragraph I >> list thing that are similar to what is needed, but at the moment >> probably would be a much worse option than what you have outlined). >> GEGL deals with many or most of the concerns of an interactive SVG >> canvas. And at least the long term it should be an eligible candidate >> for such SVG rendering (I've probably deleted an old naive SVG -> GEGL >> graph compiler I had lying around, as well as experiments with >> stroking SVG paths with soft brushes and variable line widths). >> >> GEGL already does various caching of intermediate rendered surfaces >> and propagation of dirty rectangles in the compositing graph based on >> graph re-arrangements/property changes. Rendering is at the moment >> split into spatial regions that are processed sequentially (work is >> slowly under way to paralellize this processing of rectangular >> subregions with threads). > > A few years ago, Henk Boom did a google summer-of-code project to > integrate svg rendering into the Gimp. His code was placed on hold > until enough bogs were fixed in the Gimp to make it prectical to add new > features. If people are starting to look at connecting Inkscape and > Gegl, perhaps it's time to dust off his code and have a look at it. I'm not sure. GEGL already does more/other vector graphics than the vector layers feature that was added in the GSOC, and in a manner that would seamlessly intergrate with how effect-layers, GEGL based text layers and other composition based enhancements will be done. As I recall it, the vector layers as implemented in that branch feels like a proof of concept and the UI integration with the rest of GIMP is rather ad-hoc. /Øyvind K. -- «The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed» -- William Gibson http://pippin.gimp.org/ http://ffii.org/ _______________________________________________ Gegl-developer mailing list Gegl-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gegl-developer
