Re: commit: abiword-plugins: wheel reinvention

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 11:04:34 GMT

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    On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, F J Franklin wrote:

    > The code in this directory tree may some day be adopted into the main
    > AbiSuite tree but at the moment it is highly experimental, even
    > speculative, and is therefore being developed as a plugin, and may even
    > become an official SVG plugin at some point.
    >
    > I'm fulfilling a dream I've had for 10 years, a dream that probably
    > every programmer has - to write a scanline converter & graphics package.
    > I'm working from scratch, aided only by two trusty volumes:
    >
    > [1] "Computer Graphics" Foley, van Dam, et al.
    > [2] "Advanced Animation and Rendering" Watt & Watt
    >
    > I know I'm reinventing the wheel here. I haven't researched as
    > rigorously as I might, but I haven't seen any wheels out there that
    > satisfy me.

    Hey Frank,
              It's your time, go for it! We're mostly here to have fun
    anyway :-)

    Cheers

    Martin



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