vector-graphics

Our graphics person uses Adobe Illustrator and we'd like to use her images inside our WPF application as paths. Is there a way to do this? We use Expression Design to do this. Unfortunately, there currently is no free beta preview like Blend 2.5, however, you can download a trial copy (which I think you can use for 90 days). If you don't want to go this route, I know that a lot of people also use Mike Swanson's exporter that is pointed to by curtisk above. This should fit the bill AI->XAML DuckMaestro You can go from AI to SVG to XAML. From Adobe Illustrator: File -> Save As -> *.SVG. SVG

I want to begin developing 2D Java games for phones (on J2ME) therefore I'd like to know if any libraries or "engines" exist to help out in the various graphical tasks: Drawing text with pixel fonts? Drawing bitmaps for sprites with multiple frames like animated GIFs? Drawing graphics with code, lines, beziers, flood-filling and gradient fills ? Ordering / layering of sprites? Or maybe a great book exists, that gives you enough code samples to get off the ground quickly? I didn't use it myself, but heard some good reference on here . And here is even a list of libraries, you might need. MIDP

I am trying to perform broad-phase collision detection with a fixed-grid size approach. Thus, for each entity's position: (x,y,z) (each of type float), I need to find which cell does the entity lie in. I then intend to store all the cells in a hash-table and then iterate through to report (if any) collisions. So, here is what I am doing: Grid-cell's position: (int type) (Gx, Gy, Gz) => (x / M, y / M, z / M) where M is the size of the grid. Once, I have a cell, I'd like to add it to a hash-table with its key being a unique hash based on (Gx, Gy, Gz) and the value being the cell itself. Now, I

I am playing with DxScene and VxScene: http://www.ksdev.com/dxscene/index.html It looks very nice and powerful: 3d accelerated vector graphics, cross plaform, nice effects, many 2d GUI controls (vector based), good scaling, transparency, rotating (x, y, z), 3d models, etc. Even with many effects, the CPU stays very low (0%)! http://www.ksdev.com/dxscene/snapshot/screen0.jpeg But can it be seen as a good WPF alternative for Delphi? And does anyone use it instead of normal Delphi VCL? Yes, I am using it now in a new project and intend to use it for all future projects. It's indeed extremely

I need to display some interactive (attaching with DOM listeners etc. and event handling) vector graphics in web site I am working on. There is a W3C recommendation for SVG though this format is still not recognized by Internet Explorer support of which is a must (for a public website). IE handles VML though and there are even javascript libraries that do some canvas-like drawing depending on a browser (SVG vs. VML) - excanvas , GFX of Dojo Toolkit and more. That would be nice and acceptable though none of them can display an SVG image from the given markup. So the question actually consists

Some high school math concept has been forgotten, so I ask here. If I have two points p1(x1,y1) , p2(x2,y2) , the direction is P1-->p2 , that's p1 points to p2 . To represent this direction by vector, is it Vector(x2-x1,y2-y1) or Vector(x1-x2, y1-y2) ? By the way, what is the purpose to normalize a vector? Answer 1: it is Vector(x2-x1,y2-y1) Answer 2: Normalizing means to scale the vector so that its length is 1. It is a useful operation in many computations, for example, normal vectors should be specified normalized for lighting calculations in computer graphics. The normalized vector of v(x