Re: [pygame] New transformations for future Pygame releases

["Brian Fisher" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Casey Duncan <casey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Seems like some folks (Fredrik Lundh among them) have made some agg
>  wrappers for python:
>
>  http://effbot.org/zone/aggdraw-index.htm
>  http://tachyon.in/davinci/
>
>  The latter one is part of a larger package. Fredrik's includes an api
>  to do affine transforms.
>
There are 2 basic problems with all existing bindings to agg code when
it comes to using them with pygame. The first is they don't have tight
integration with pygame surfaces (wouldn't it be great to just simply
draw one surface rotated scaled and colored onto another? how about
being able to use a pygame surface as the texture for a line? how
about using a pygame surface as the texture for a filled shape?)

The second is that there is no canonical set of agg features to bind
to - in my opinion it's better to think of agg as the first place to
go to get code to implement whatever rendering feature you want (it
lets you start solving your rendering problem at a very high level to
start)