[cairo] Survey of polygon rasterization techniques

[Jeff Muizelaar]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:46:56AM +1000, Nigel Tao wrote:
> On 31/07/07, David Turner <david at freetype.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:57:50 +1000, "Nigel Tao" <nigel.tao.gnome at gmail.com> said:
> > > I'm not familiar with the code, but does Inkscape's rasterizer
> > > (livarot??) fall under this category?
> >
> > From the source code at:
> >
> > http://inkscape.modevia.com/doxygen/html/render_8cpp-source.php
> >
> > I would say you're right.
> 
> That looks like potrace code (and Inkscape's source tree has a copy of
> potrace), but that file that you linked to is not necessarily
> Inkscape's rasterizer, IIUC.

Yeah, it looks like the rasterizer is here:
http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/src/livarot/

I wasn't able to figure out how it works from a brief look though.

-Jeff