On Wednesday, July 27, 2011, Nicolas Rougier <Nic...@in...> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I've been testing various idea around the idea of a GL backend, and I would have a few questions. > First, I tried to use the backend template to quickly test an empty pyglet backend and I've been quite surprised by the bad performances. Without drawing anything, I can hardly reach 100FPS and I wonder if I did something wrong ? (The backend is available backend_pyglet.py < http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/tmp/backend_pyglet.py> and the test file is at test_backend_pyglet.py < http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/tmp/test_backend_pyglet.py>) > > Second, I've been experimenting with proper anti-alias technics (using shaders) and the results are not so bad so far (IMHO) : > Antialiased line with thickness varying by 0.1 pixels: > http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/tmp/aa-line.png > (don't paid attention to the cap, it's not done yet) > > Antialiased circles (small circles position is increased by 0.1 pixels) > http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/tmp/aa-circle.png > (I can post source code if anyone is interested) > I don't know yet if all matplotlib artists can be drawing using these technics. > > My question relates to the cairo backend that now seems to support gl and shaders. Does anyone know the status of the gl-backend and how it would improve performances of matplotlib ? (I had a hard time finding any information). > > Nicolas Nicolas, I want to immediately encourage you to continue on your efforts. PLEASE make a fork on github so that we may be able to experiment better. Cheers! Ben Root
