Bug 17733

Summary:	Add a Verse backend so that all cairo apps can be integrated in Blender, 3DMax
Product:	cairo	Reporter:	Stuart Axon <stu.axon>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Carl Worth <cworth>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	cairo-bugs mailing list <cairo-bugs>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	1.7.7
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Stuart Axon 2008-09-23 02:17:22 UTC

Verse currently lets things be integrated in Blender and 3dmax, if there was a verse backend for cairo, then all cairo programs could be used really easily in blender (and later later on with each other).

If there was support for verse in both directions it would make it really easy to join two cairo apps together (maybe I'm editing an image in gimp* and it is updating in realtime in inkscape).

*maybe gimp is not the best example as there is already a verse plugin for it, but you get the idea - easy network sharing of parts of apps.

Just being able to use cairo based apps mixed with 3D apps would be a pretty big win in itself.

From the site:
"Verse is a network protocol that lets multiple applications act
together as one large application by sharing data over a network. If
one application makes a change to shared data, the change is
distributed instantly to all the other interested clients. The
protocol and associated data format are both heavily optimized for
sharing data suitable for 3D graphics."
http://verse.blender.org/

PyVerse
http://users.telenet.be/blendix/verse/


Filed under general as not sure where to request a new backend :)
Index
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Uni-Verse:Main

Comment 1 Chris Wilson 2008-10-10 12:02:56 UTC

From the description "Verse is a network protocol for sharing data" I'm not sure how this integrates with cairo which is in effect a Page Description API. I can envisage applications sharing data in a PDL (e.g. PDF) and see the changes rendered in both in real-time, but I can't see how to use Verse as a backend...

I think it would be interesting if you can work through some example use cases and I suggest you do so on the cairo mailing list as you'll get a wider audience.

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