On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:56:18 -0800, finalpatch <fen...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 23:29:59 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
Even with a full port of 2.4 to D it would still fall under the BSD
3-Clause license which is not Boost compliant IIRC. So it will never
end up in Phobos. If I am missing something let me know, because a
Phobos Software Renderer is a good idea.
Hi Adam,
We don't necessarily have to port AGG to D. Instead, I suggest we
produce something that resembles its design (a set of very flexible
components that can be put together through template instantiation at
compile time), but in idiomatic D. With the power of D, the group
wisdom of the community, and the lessons learned from AGG and other
prior projects, it's very possible we can produce something even more
impressive than AGG. Since it's a pure software renderer, the scope of
the project will be a lot more manageable than GPU based solutions.
Well, actually software renderers are terribly complicated beasts and so
probably wouldn't reduce the actual scope. And they require a lot of
mathematical knowledge that can be hard to come by, I certainly don't have
it. So if someone is willing to start writing one in D we'd be happy to
include support for it in Aurora. But I think we should continue with the
GPU based solutions because they are easier to work with and the
knowledge-base is more extensive.
--
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Aurora Project Coordinator
