Hi list, The board layout is a main concern these days, but maybe some of us would like to review a research paper I just came accross and discuss its pertinence in the scope of this project.
The paper in called "Vector Texture Maps on the GPU" and can be found here : http://www.loria.fr/~levy/publications/papers/2005/VTM/vtm.pdf "It presents a novel representation of vector images that can be used as a texture by the GPU for real-time rendering." I've been following the list since the very begining so I know that the feature list of the first card have been more-or-less agreed upon a long time ago. However, I don't remeber that accelerated vector graphics has ever come in the discussion, which is strange given the "Desktop User" target of the first graphics card. In these days of ttf-fonts-everywhere and Cairoification of desktops, can't we see accelerated vector graphics as a potential attractive feature to implement in the board ? Even more convincing, it seems that Xgl is now using this technique (via shaders ?) for its fonts rendering http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xgl As far as I understand, one of the main advantages of the solution proposed in the paper is that it integrates perfectly in a 3D GPU design. It can even provide regular OpenGl anti-aliased lines and polygones. The proposal has already been successfully implemented in a GPU, and the hardware part already seem to provide the necessary functionalities. There is also some related code in GLSL here : http://staffwww.itn.liu.se/~stegu/GLSL-conics/ Software tools and integration needs to be developped, but it seems that this is a field in which the Opengraphics project can perform competitively. Due to my lack of competence, I'm probably missing some difficulties here, but I let you discuss it if you will. Just hope it hepls. Cheers, Robin -------------- ALICE HAUT DEBIT : TRIPLE PLAY A 29,95 EUR/MOIS -------------- Découvrez vite ALICEBOX : avec le modem WIFI, profitez de l'ADSL, de la TELEPHONIE et en exclusivité de la TELEVISION ! Bénéficiez aussi de la hotline gratuite 24h/24 ! Soumis à conditions. Pour en profiter cliquez ici http://abonnement.aliceadsl.fr _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
