>looks like P2D may return as a java port of the antigrain >(http://www.antigrain.com/) library. it seems to support >everything we need, though it remains to be seen whether >it can be ported properly and made fast enough to run >inside java. keep your fingers crossed.

Wow - that would be amazing - please try to make it work somehow. No more potato-print antialiasing!

yeah, though i think antigrain has its own clipper that it can use without the gpcj stuff since the license for gpcj isn't compatible with the LGPL on the rest of the code. i think antigrain's will be ok, though depending on how both progress, i may just have to contact the authors for permission.

i was pleased to find antigrain, before that i was looking at cairo which is kinda huge.. and there's this funny gap between the libs like cairo that try to do everything and the pile of hacks that make things like anti-aliasing or stroke caps, or whatever work properly.. in the latter case, they just don't add up to a proper lib, which is what happened with the original P2D.

as for the internal lines on shapes, that's just something i need to rework so that P3D and friends won't try to antialias lines that aren't part of the exterior. fairly straightforward but a pretty basic/structural thing that requires an afternoon or two with a clear head and a good cup of coffee.