Re: [matplotlib-devel] GSOC 2013 (Google Summer Of Code)

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Droettboom
On 03/07/2013 12:45 PM, Damon McDougall wrote: > I'm really lost when it comes to how to could optimise our rendering, > especially with text rendering being extremely slow at present. Let's put some benchmarks together for this. There's a lot of optimizations to the text rendering in the Agg b

Re: [matplotlib-devel] GSOC 2013 (Google Summer Of Code)

2013-03-07 Thread Damon McDougall
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: >> >> Ah, yes. I forgot that my issues with trying to do rendering in the >> browser shared some similarities here. >> >> When I did the last major backend refactoring (which is

Re: [matplotlib-devel] GSOC 2013 (Google Summer Of Code)

2013-03-07 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > Ah, yes. I forgot that my issues with trying to do rendering in the > browser shared some similarities here. > > When I did the last major backend refactoring (which is coming on 6 > years ago now), I considered exactly this, which is

Re: [matplotlib-devel] GSOC 2013 (Google Summer Of Code)

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Droettboom
Ah, yes. I forgot that my issues with trying to do rendering in the browser shared some similarities here. When I did the last major backend refactoring (which is coming on 6 years ago now), I considered exactly this, which is why draw_path takes both a path object (which is unlikely to change

Re: [matplotlib-devel] GSOC 2013 (Google Summer Of Code)

2013-03-07 Thread Nicolas Rougier
Indeed, you analyzed/explained the overall situation very well in your blog post: http://mdboom.github.com/blog/2012/08/06/matplotlib-client-side/ OpenGL can make things very fast as long as there is not too many transfer between CPU/GPU memory. Once the data is within the GPU, most transform

Re: [matplotlib-devel] GSOC 2013 (Google Summer Of Code)

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Droettboom
I'm not aware of any discussion about participating in GSoC this year, though I am open to the idea. I was involved as a mentor a few years ago, but I wasn't terribly involved in the administrative side, so I don't know what's involved. I think then we did it under the umbrella of the PSF. I

[matplotlib-devel] GSOC 2013 (Google Summer Of Code)

2013-03-07 Thread Nicolas Rougier
Hi all, Are there any ongoing project for GSOC 2013 ? I would like to propose something around a GL backend but I'm not still sure OpenGL "philosophy" is compatible with current matplotlib design and any project would require co-mentoring with a matplotlib devel guru. There is a lot of experi