On 24 November 2012 16:06, Sebastian Nozzi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Pharo Devs, > > I am really excited about the direction Pharo is taking regarding many > areas - one of them being the graphics. I played with Athens a bit and > it's cool to see anti-aliased vectror graphics coming to Pharo. > > I keep reading about a possible OpenGL back-end in the future... what > would this mean exactly? > It means exactly what it says: Use opengl library as a backend.
> For years I have been "dreaming" about graphic-accelerated "eye-candy" > effects inside of the Smalltalk environment. Like compiz-fusion > effects in Linux, or Quartz-Extreme powerded in OS-X (Exposé, etc.). > > Would this be possible with such a back-end? Or am I misinterpreting > things? I'm not a graphic-dev expert. > Yes. But do not misinterpret things: making opengl backend will not make everything "eye-candy" immediately. For having this, people should implement these fancy effects first :) -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
