14 Jan
2006
14 Jan
'06
5:04 p.m.
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 03:33 -0400, bulia byak wrote:
Quoting the article:
The filters all operate on pixel data, not SVG maths. As such,
they're independant of Cairo, Libart, or whatever one wants to draw with.
But Cairo does operate on pixels, AFAIK. It renders vector data into pixels. So it makes a lot of sense to implement e.g. blurring directly in Cairo, not in Inkscape on bitmaps returned by Cairo.
Cairo doesn't provide facilities for blurring etc, per se. We will have to do the latter.
Same for the "byak compositing operator" which we use for handles and so forth.
-mental