Section: New Software and Platforms

VRender: vector figures

Participant : Cyril Soler [contact] .

The VRender library is a simple tool to render the content of an OpenGL window to a vectorial device such as Postscript, XFig, and soon SVG. The main usage of such a library is to make clean vectorial drawings for publications, books, etc.

In practice, VRender replaces the z-buffer based hidden surface removal of OpenGL by sorting the geometric primitives so that they can be rendered in a back-to-front order, possibly cutting them into pieces to solve cycles.

VRender is also responsible for the vectorial snapshot feature of the QGLViewer library. VRender is released under the LGPL licence and is freely available for download at http://artis.imag.fr/Software/VRender .