2009/1/30 Bryan O'Sullivan <b...@serpentine.com>: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Antony Courtney <antony.court...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> 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.
There is an even higher-level interface to Cairo, in the form of the diagrams package[1] [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/diagrams-0.1 --Max _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
