[REBOL] Re: [ANN] Rebol/AGG
From: moliad:aei:ca at: 29-Jun-2004 9:13
Hi Petr,
Sorry, I'm not on AltME that much
could someone post this mail for me !?
I just don't have time to stick around and chat... its ssooooo time
consuming... btw, reading chat session when you're not in the room is painless
and pointless... that is why e-mail is still better for me. (sorry for
bringing that up again, please ppl, dont reply to this, we all know how everyone
feels about the pros and cons of e-mail ;-)
The reason I see why RT could outsource the GFX stuff to an external , open
source, team of developpers is that it allows RT to use a bigger body of
developpers. If RT then ADDS stuff to it to make it more usefull within the
rebol view software (like the event mechanism and the whole nested layout
structure, which is very handy and well done) then they DO differentiate
themselves.
I'm not saying AGG is bad, I'm letting that to others to determine, currently I
have enough things to shake a stick at... I do know that image magick is VERY
fast and can process at up to 128 bits per channel. So it could be nice if
people are thinking about adding professional image manipulations.
about the links:
CAIRO
This toolkit is mainly concerned with vector graphics and is built atop a
flexible retargetable output system. they already have an opengl, postcript,
raw image and png output, but are also working on svg and pdf. who knows, maybe
its built over AGG, I just don't have a lot of time to do a lot of research
right now.
http://cairographics.org/
IMAGE MAGICK:
http://www.imagemagick.org
supports so many image formats:
http://www.imagemagick.org/www/formats.html
a few image manipulations:
http://www.imagemagick.org/images/examples.jpg
even the command-line tool is impressive,
This is a good page showing MANY things image magick does straight out of the
box
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6/
license DOES NOT REQUIRE SOURCES when redistributing, only proper claims
http://studio.imagemagick.org/www/Copyright.html
so even RT could use it without fear!
-MAx
