Andrew,

You absolutely could do that except that you'll have a bit of a problem
when it comes to rotated/scaled objects. OpenGL hardware requires
textures to be powers of two (which means that you'll waste tons of
space if the object is 129x129) and while there's a specific extension
of OpenGL to handle non power-of-two textures I believe that you can
only use these for screen-aligned blits. Someone *please* prove me wrong
here...

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Andrew C. Greenberg
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:15 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Morphic Extreme
> 
> 
> Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) employs a technology denominated "Quartz 
> Extreme," apparently a 2D drawing technology for screen components 
> exploiting hardware rendering solutions.  Essentially, screen 
> elements 
> are stored as OpenGL textures and are rendered on the screen via 
> hardware, resulting in a speedier, zippier interface.
> 
> Would such a technology be speedy or beneficial for Morphic?  
> Practical?  Straightforward?  Can we leverage the OpenGL work Andreas 
> has done to put together a proof of concept?
> 
> What do you think?
> 
>