[cairo] Mac Tiger Core Image

[Carl Worth]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:48:28 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Has Cairo already implemented all of this?
> 
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/coreimage.html

No. There are several things there that in our architecture definitely
belong at layers above cairo, (page curl, lenticular halo, vortex
distortion, etc. just to name a few).

A better question is whether we provide sufficient primitives for
users to draw the 2D images they want, and in a way that the
primitives can be accelerated by hardware.

There are at least two gaps that I am currently aware of, and for
which we've already started some discussion on the list:

	General gradients

	Filters

Those are two things that will likely need a bit of new API, but I
don't expect them to change the architecture of cairo in any
fundamental way.

And there are other little things that will likely be wanted that are
even easier to add, (eg. adding fancy compositing operators such as
burn and dodge).

And, for any of this stuff, rather than looking at some other API, I'm
much more interested in hearing from users of cairo that have tried to
do something and wished cairo provided something more.

-Carl
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