Khronos Releases OpenVG 1.1 Lite For High Quality Vector Graphics On Mobile

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Khronos Releases OpenVG 1.1 Lite For High Quality Vector Graphics On Mobile

It's been a while since hearing of OpenVG as The Khronos Group's hardware-accelerated 2D vector graphics API. But today they announced a "Lite" version of OpenVG 1.1...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenVG-1.1-Lite-Provisional

[cl333r]

Khronos: puts out a non GL/VK release
Industry: (Yawns)

[rabcor]

Haha, they really called it Open VG? I can't stop laughing

[tildearrow]

Haha, they really called it Open VG? I can't stop laughing

Why?...


Also, what's the point of OpenVG? Couldn't somebody make a GPU-accelerated vector library using OpenGL or Vulkan?

[blackshard]

Why?...


Also, what's the point of OpenVG? Couldn't somebody make a GPU-accelerated vector library using OpenGL or Vulkan?

Vulkan was not present 10 years ago. OpenGL ES still lacks some interesting interface OpenVG has, for example regarding path generation and vector-based fonts.

OpenVG was designed with SVG in mind, and that was really evident when I had to make an SVG parser for my work that renders the vector graphics with OpenVG. The "translation" part was incredibly fast and simple.

[andrei_me]

Why?...

Open Va Gina probably

[tildearrow]

Open Va Gina probably

What's on people's minds.

Is this what we think of, all day? :<

[tildearrow]

Vulkan was not present 10 years ago. OpenGL ES still lacks some interesting interface OpenVG has, for example regarding path generation and vector-based fonts.

OpenVG was designed with SVG in mind, and that was really evident when I had to make an SVG parser for my work that renders the vector graphics with OpenVG. The "translation" part was incredibly fast and simple.

Hmm... but now there's Vulkan.

I wonder if we can fill parts of a vector using normal OpenGL polygons and compute shaders for the anti-aliased borders... ...oh wait they don't exist on ES :<

[rabcor]

What's on people's minds.

Is this what we think of, all day? :<

Pretty much, haven't you seen the state of the world today? Incidentally, OpenVJ woulda gotten the same kind of reaction.

I know it's just a bad joke, but still. They really named it that

[muratmat]

Is there any implementation of this OpenVG Lite standard?