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linebender / piet

piet

An abstraction for 2D graphics.

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An abstraction for 2D graphics.

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2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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peter_d_sherman·Jul 17, 2023

Didn't know about Skia previously! Thank you for the excellent suggestion! So, let's provide some links: Overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skia_Graphics_Engine Homepage: https://skia.org/ Source: https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/ (or) https://github.com/google/skia Also -- there's this old HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28143972 where the following github projects which involve drawing are mentioned: https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx https://github.com/memononen/nanovg https://github.com/wjakob/nanogui In the following article: https://www.cmyr.net/blog/gui-framework-ingredients.html we find the following interesting quote: >"These APIs exist, in subtly different form, on the various platforms. on macOS, there is CoreGraphics [Quartz 2D], on windows Direct2D, and on linux there is Cairo. One approach, then, is to p

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resent a common API abstraction over top of these platform APIs, puttying over the rough edges and filling in the gaps. (This is the approach we have currently taken, with the piet library.)" So, some more quick links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct2D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_(graphics_layer) Piet: https://docs.rs/piet/latest/piet/ https://github.com/linebender/piet Related: 2018 Paper: "A Proposal to Add 2D Graphics Rendering and Display to C++": https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p02...

In Cairo – Open-Source 2D Graphics Layer/API with font support and many back-ends

______-_-______·Feb 25, 2022

Piet is the backend for the Druid UI toolkit. It is indeed cross-platform. The SVG backend looks like it would work without an OS, but I'm not sure the value of a GUI toolkit without an OS anyway :) https://github.com/linebender/piet#backends https://github.com/linebender/druid/tree/master/druid-shell/...

In Piet-GPU Progress: Clipping

billconan·Feb 25, 2022

the name piet comes from this project https://github.com/linebender/piet it's an abstraction of common 2d vector graphics libs.

In Piet-GPU Progress: Clipping

celeritascelery·Jul 9, 2021

One I am excited for is Druid. Is is worked on by some of the same people that the xi editor, and they really understand responsive design and good font rendering. The backend is Piet, which are platform native crates. And then Druid abstracts over those backends. This lets you write GUI code once and then use native API’s and features. https://github.com/linebender/druid https://github.com/linebender/piet

In Are we GUI Yet? The state of building user interfaces in Rust

dman·Mar 14, 2019

Sure, sorry about the initial omissions. https://github.com/xi-editor/druid https://github.com/linebender/piet

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