[cairo] Mac Tiger Core Image

[Bill Spitzak]

mental at rydia.net wrote:
> Quoting mental at rydia.net:
> 
> 
>> 2. dilate all shapes slightly before rendering so they overlap
>>sufficiently to eliminate fringing [ this is the approach taken
>>by the AntiGrain Geometry library ]
> 
> 
> Speaking of which, it turns out the AntiGrain folks have a page with
> sample images that illustrate the problem I'm talking about "in the
> wild":
> 
> http://www.antigrain.com/svg/index.html

These images are not showing what you want. They are antialiased. It 
looks to me like they drew the shapes slightly larger with an 
antialiased outline. If you turned off antialiasing there would be a 
stairstep aliased division between the shapes.

It is possible that this may be easily done in Cairo by doing a stroke 
after filling the shape.

The program producing these SVG files may want to be improved to make 
overlapping areas, rather than making them all just barely touch like that.