From my newsgroup announcement:
Dear D community
Tango is going visual! Headless visual! With
the addition of a general purpose 2D graphics package, Tango users will
be able to generate 2D images on the fly for use in a variety of
applications, on the server or the desktop. The package supports basic
2D primitives, complex shapes, fonts, alpha-blending, transformations,
paths, styles, and other common 2D graphics operations. The design is
inspired by several existing APIs, such as Java2D and OpenVG, so
anyone who has experience with other APIs should be able to get up and
running quickly.The API is designed to support third-party implementations for
cases when the default (software) implementation does not fit the bill.
These additional implementations are free to accelerate both the
buffering and the rendering, and an OpenGL wrapper will likely be
provided for those systems with OpenGL support. All implementations
will support headless systems.Contact:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/Contact Signed,
The Tango Team
http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/Contributors —-
Tango is a cohesive runtime and library for the D programming language. A feature list can be found on
http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/Features
Gregor will be porting the package to the Abacus, so you Luddites out there will not be forgotten.
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