[Cuis-dev] How can we help?

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Hilaire,

(below)
On 12/29/2020 10:54 AM, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> Hi Juan,
>
> The book gives the readers taste and felling of Morphic 3 + 
> VectorGraphics.
>
> https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/The-Fundamentals-of-Morph.html
>
> How could the community helps to make VectorGraphics the default 
> rendering engine of the whole graphic environment of Cuis?
>
> Are there sub-projects, necessary to this achievement, that people 
> could help with?
>
> Hilaire
>
> -- 
> GNU Dr. Geo
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> https://pouet.chapril.org/@hilaire

Two years ago, Vector Graphics was purely experimental. Then some 
milestones in its development:
- About two years ago I used the VectorGraphics engine to build TrueType 
fonts (that can be used with the traditional BitBltCanvas)
- This year you showed interest in using VectorGraphics for DrGeo. I'm a 
long time admirer and fan of your work, so I rushed to make it usable 
(even if slow). So I built HybridCanvas, and fixed many bugs.
- Writing this chapter for the book, and especially building the 
examples showed many things to improve. So I added MovableMorph, 
additional refactoring, and fixed a lot of bugs.

So things are advancing at a rather good pace.

Now that the book is essentially finished, what is needed now is to 
write a VM plugin with a C version of VectorEngine hierarchy. I need to 
focus on that for some time, maybe 2 or 3 months. The way everybody can 
help is by reading the chapter in the book, getting familiar with the 
ideas and apis, start building things, and report on the experience. Bug 
reports and ideas for improvement are most welcome.

I'm just realizing that in the book I forgot to mention 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267152327_Prefiltering_Antialiasing_for_General_Vector_Graphics 
. Maybe I'd add a reference. (Yes, I was afraid someone else could 
patent the technique, disallowing using it to us, so I kept it 
unpublished for several years).

Thanks,

-- 
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