cairo/src/cairo-cogl.h
Robert Bragg 571a27b4fc backends: Adds a new Cogl based backend
This adds a new GPU accelerated backend for Cairo based on the Cogl 3D
graphics API.

This backend aims to support Cairo in a way that translates as naturally
as possible to using a GPU, it does not strive to compete with the
anti-aliasing quality of the image backend if it can't be done
efficiently using the GPU - raw performance isn't the only metric of
concern, so is power usage.

As an overview of how the backend works:
- fills are handled by tessellating paths into triangles
- the backend has an extra fill_rectangle drawing operation so we have
  a fast-path for drawing rectangles which are so common.
- strokes are also tessellated into triangles.
- stroke and fill tessellations are cached to avoid the cpu overhead
  of tessellation and cost of upload given that its common for apps to
  re-draw the same path multiple times. The tessellations can survive
  translations and rotations increasing the probability that they can be
  re-used.
- sources and masks are handled using multi-texturing.
- clipping is handled with a scissor and the stencil buffer which
  we're careful to only update when they really change.
- linear gradients are rendered to a 1d texture using a triangle
  strip + interpolating color attributes. All cairo extend modes
  are handled by corresponding texture sampler wrap modes without
  needing programmable fragment processing.
- antialiasing should be handled using Cogl's multisampling API

XXX: This is a work in progress!!
TODO:
- handle at least basic radial gradients (No need to handle full
  pdf semantics, since css, svg and canvas only allow radial gradients
  defined as one circle + a point that must lie within the first
  circle.) - currently we fall back to pixman for radial gradients.
- support glyph rendering with a decent glyph cache design. The
  current plan is a per scaled-font growable cache texture + a
  scratch cache for one-shot/short-lived glyphs.
- decide how to handle npot textures when lacking hardware support.
  Current plan is to add a transparent border to npot textures and use
  CLAMP_TO_EDGE for the default EXTEND_NONE semantics. For anything else
  we can allocate a shadow npot texture and scale the original to fit
  that so we can map extend modes to texture sampler modes.
2011-10-11 09:05:45 +01:00

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/* cairo - a vector graphics library with display and print output
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* Contributor(s):
* Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
*/
#ifndef CAIRO_VG_H
#define CAIRO_VG_H
#include "cairo.h"
#if CAIRO_HAS_COGL_SURFACE
#include <cogl/cogl2-experimental.h>
CAIRO_BEGIN_DECLS
cairo_public cairo_device_t *
cairo_cogl_device_create (CoglContext *context);
cairo_public cairo_surface_t *
cairo_cogl_surface_create (cairo_device_t *device,
CoglFramebuffer *framebuffer);
cairo_public CoglFramebuffer *
cairo_cogl_surface_get_framebuffer (cairo_surface_t *surface);
cairo_public CoglTexture *
cairo_cogl_surface_get_texture (cairo_surface_t *surface);
cairo_public void
cairo_cogl_surface_end_frame (cairo_surface_t *surface);
CAIRO_END_DECLS
#else /* CAIRO_HAS_COGL_SURFACE*/
# error Cairo was not compiled with support for the Cogl backend
#endif /* CAIRO_HAS_COGL_SURFACE*/
#endif /* CAIRO_COGL_H */