Name: Integrate Gezira into Squeak/Pharo
Level: Intermediate
Possible mentor: ?
Possible second mentor: ?

Description
Squeak started life as a highly graphical environment for exploring and
experimenting with computation.  Part of it's appeal was that it was
completely understandable from the ground up, including how every pixel on
screen gets there. However, Squeak's graphical facilities have fallen
behind the current state of the art, and are still largely focused
fundamentally on manipulating bitmaps.  Gezira offers a state of the art
vector graphics framework that is at the same time compact and
understandable. It is being actively developed by the people at VPRI and
already has a smalltalk implementation courtesy of Bert Freudenberg which
is available from the VPRI website.

Technical Details
Take Bert's work done for VPRI and integrate it into the current Squeak VM.
On the image side, integrate Gezira into Squeak's canvas hierarchy and,
time permitting, begin working to retrofit current morphic rendering to use
Gezira. Work to speed up Gezira in smalltalk could also be a part of the
project.

Benefits to the Student
The student will learn about vector graphics, as well as the Squeak VM. It
will also provide valuable experience learning how VPRI is going about
creating software that is both functional and compact at the same time.

Benefits to the Community
Squeak and Pharo will gain a modern, understandable vector graphics
framework allowing for graphical capabilities that are of higher quality
than what is currently available.
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