The svgl toolkit: enabling fast rendering of rich 2D graphics

Abstract

As more and more powerful graphical processors become available on mainstream computers, it becomes possible to investigate the design of visually rich and fast interactive applications. In this article, we present SVGL , a graphical toolkit that enables programmers and designers of interactive applications to benefit from this power. The toolkit is based on a scene graph which is translated into an optimized display graph. After describing the algorithms used to display the scene, we show that the toolkit is two to fifty times faster than similar toolkits