30 Jan
2009
30 Jan
'09
4:25 p.m.
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Antony Courtney
A 2-D vector graphics library such as Java2D ( or Quartz on OS/X or GDI+ on Windows ) supports things like computing tight bounding rectangles for arbitrary shapes, hit testing for determining whether a point is inside or outside a shape and constructive area geometry for shape compositing and clipping without dropping down to a raster representation.
These are the kinds of capabilities provided by Cairo, which is very pleasant to use (PDF-style imaging model) and quite portable. There are already Cairo bindings provided by gtk2hs, too.