Quoting Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com>:
Esteban A. Maringolo wrote:
I don't know how long will it take to revamp Morphic, last time I saw a demo of it at Smalltalks conference (~circa 2007/8), it was really promising, but didn't hear about it again. Regards, Esteban A. Maringolo
It seems Juan was concerned about his new methods being patented by someone else. Maybe we'll see more again publically soon.
http://forum.world.st/Morphic-3-defensive-disclosure-td4727197.html
cheers -ben
Thanks Ben. That's true, the most important ideas are already protected. I hope to have a working version before the end of this year.
There will be some performance impact, mostly due to the use of Float geometry instead of SmallInteger. Hopefully Eliot's Spur with immediate Floats will compensate for that. But I have done some benchmarks, and the Morphic 3 graphics engine is twice as fast as Cairo, and almost as fast as AGG (Anti-Grain Geometry).