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Re: [pygame] AGG library



Yeah, this could be done right now.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Douglas Bagnall
<douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I've not used it (nor have I fully followed this thread) but Fredrik
> Lundh has written a python AGG wrapper[1] which works on PIL
> images and other arrays.
>
> Rather than bringing everything into pygame, it seems better to me to
> expose internal pygame arrays to external libraries, perhaps using the
> Numpy array interface[2], so people can draw using whatever they want.
> Assuming that using AGG already implies a software surface, there
> doesn't need to be any overhead in accessing the pixel data from outside
> of pygame.  Pygame doesn't really need to be anything but a good
> friendly SDL wrapper.
>
> probably missing something,
>
> Douglas
>
>
> [1]http://effbot.org/zone/aggdraw-index.htm
> [2]http://numpy.scipy.org/array_interface.shtml
>
>