If you haven't already, you could check out: Pyxel http://bellsouthpwp.net/p/r/prochak/pyxel.html "Pyxel is a python library that provides a dynamic, interactive, highly portable, graphical environment. It makes diagrams and widgets look identical in whatever underlying environment it supports."
wxOGL http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/wxOGL "The OGL library was originally written in C++ and provided to wxPython via an extension module wrapper as is most of the rest of wxPython. The code has now been ported to Python (with many thanks to Pierre Hjälm!) in order to make it be more easily maintainable and less likely to get rusty because nobody cares about the C++ lib any more." (bottom of that pages has more alternatives, like the next) Piddle http://piddle.sourceforge.net/ "PIDDLE is a Python module for creating two-dimensional graphics in a manner that is both cross-platform and cross-media; that is, it can support screen graphics (e.g. QuickDraw, Windows, Tk) as well as file output (PostScript, PDF, GIF, etc.). It makes use of the native 2D drawing calls of each backend, for maximum efficiency and quality. It works by defining a base class (piddle.Canvas) with methods for all supported drawing primitives. A particular drawing context is provided in the form of a derived class. PIDDLE applications will be able to automatically select an appropriate backend for the user's environment. " and of course PyGame or PySDL or even the OpenGL Canvas stuff (there are probably more) for ideas and to see what others have done before in pure Python and you could possibly build on. Or even PyGeo if your focus is mainly on geometry instead of arbitrary 2D graphics (I wasn't sure). There are a lot of charting and plotting and other graphics packages out there with Python bindings (including Cairo, which you are looking at as your first backend target). You can ask yourself if a newer API really gets you that much over these existing things? Will it really be that much simpler once you really try to make it useful? And if you have a crossplatform backend already like Cairo or wx, does it gain you that much to abstract above that if can you simplify it somehow, versus just make a simple interface to one cross-platform library (which may be hard enough)? Now, it still might be worth doing for you even if the answers are no, but to maximize your effectiveness it is nice go in with your eyes open about whether you are doing this to learn and to have fun, to improve an existing thing, or to make something new that fills an empty niche (or to try do do all three); that is a question I often wrestle with for my own projects. :-) --Paul Fernhout Johannes Woolard wrote: > As part of my Summer of Code proposal, I said i would write a simple > graphics library. > I've spent the last couple of hours brainstorming this, and written it all up: > > http://crunchy.python-hosting.com/wiki/GraphicsDoc. > > If anyone has any comments/ideas I would love to hear them! > > Johannes > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
