Category: Analysis-Graphics
Libart is a library for high-performance 2D graphics. It is currently being used as the antialiased rendering engine for the Gnome Canvas. It is also the rendering engine for Gill, the Gnome Illustration app.
Libart is free software (all components are either GPL or LGPL). Libart is also available for commercial licensing. I own the copyright to the libart code base.
Libart supports a very powerful imaging model, basically the same as SVG and the Java 2D API. It includes all PostScript imaging operations, and adds antialiasing and alpha-transparency.
Libart is also highly tuned for incremental rendering. It contains data structures and algorithms suited to rapid, precise computation of Region of Interest, as well as a two-phase rendering pipeline optimized for interactive display.
This is the LGPL'd component of libart. All functions needed for running the Gnome canvas, and for printing support, will be going in here. The GPL'd component will be getting various enhanced functions for specific applications.
For more information about libart, see the web page: http://www.levien.com/libart/. There's also a libart tutorial available at http://www.gnome.org/~mathieu/libart/libart.html
This package has the following support level : Unsupported
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2.3.19 |
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