[−][src]Crate lyon_tessellation
Tessellation of 2D fill and stroke operations.
This crate is reexported in lyon.
Overview
The most interesting types and traits of this crate are:
- FillTessellator - Tessellator for complex path fill operations.
- StrokeTessellator - Tessellator for complex path stroke operations.
GeometryBuilder
- (See the documentation of the geometry_builder module) which the above two are built on. This trait provides an interface for types that help with building and assembling the vertices and triangles that form the tessellation, usually in the form of arbitrary vertex and index buffers.- The various specialized tessellators in the
basic_shapes
modules.
The tessellation pipeline
The figure above shows a simplified summary of each step of the fill tessellation pipeline.
The input: iterators
The path tessellators are not tied to a particular data structure. Instead they consume iterators of flattened path events. A Path struct in the crate lyon_path is provided for convenience (but is optional).
The output: geometry builders
The tessellators are parametrized over a type implementing the GeometryBuilder trait. This trait provides some simple methods to add vertices and triangles, without enforcing any particular representation for the resulting geometry. This is important because each application will usually want to work with its own vertex type tailored a certain rendering model.
Applications can implement the GeometryBuilder<Point>
trait in order to
generate vertex buffers and index buffers with custom vertex types.
The structs VertexBuffers and
geometry_buider::BuffersBuilder are provided
for convenience. VertexBuffers<T>
is contains a Vec<T>
for the vertices and a Vec<u16>
for the indices.
BuffersBuilder
is generic over a VertexConstructor<InputVertex, OutputVertex>
trait which
creates the application's output vertices from the tessellator input vertices (either FillVertex
or StrokeVertex
).
Rendering the tessellated geometry
The tessellators produce geometry in the form of vertex and index buffers which are expected
to be rendered using the equivalent of OpenGL's glDrawElements
with mode GL_TRIANGLES
available
under various names in the different graphics APIs.
There is an example showing how
it can be done with wgpu.
Flattening and tolerance
Most tessellators in this crate currently operate on flattened paths (paths or shapes represented
by sequences of line segments). when paths contain bézier curves or arcs, the latter need to be
approximated with sequences of line segments. This approximation depends on a tolerance
parameter
which represents the maximum distance between a curve and its flattened approximation.
More explanation about flattening and tolerance in the lyon_geom crate.
Examples
Re-exports
pub use lyon_path as path; |
pub use crate::path::geom; |
Modules
basic_shapes | Tessellation routines for simple shapes. |
geometry_builder | Tools to help with generating vertex and index buffers. |
math | Basic types that are used everywhere. Most other lyon crates reexport them. |
Structs
BuffersBuilder | A temporary view on a |
Count | Number of vertices and indices added during the tessellation. |
FillAttributes | Extra vertex information from the |
FillOptions | Parameters for the fill tessellator. |
FillTessellator | A Context object that can tessellate fill operations for complex paths. |
StrokeAttributes | Extra vertex information from the |
StrokeBuilder | A builder that tessellates a stroke directly without allocating any intermediate data structure. |
StrokeOptions | Parameters for the tessellator. |
StrokeTessellator | A Context object that can tessellate stroke operations for complex paths. |
VertexBuffers | Structure that holds the vertex and index data. |
VertexId | A virtual vertex offset in a geometry. |
VertexSourceIterator | An iterator over the sources of a given vertex. |
Enums
FillRule | The fill rule defines how to determine what is inside and what is outside of the shape. |
GeometryBuilderError | An error that can happen while generating geometry. |
InternalError | Describes an unexpected error happening during tessellation. |
LineCap | Line cap as defined by the SVG specification. |
LineJoin | Line join as defined by the SVG specification. |
Order | Before or After. Used to describe position relative to a join. |
Orientation | Vertical or Horizontal. |
Side | Left or right. |
TessellationError | The fill tessellator's error enumeration. |
VertexSource | Where a vertex produced by a tessellator comes from in the original path. |
Traits
BasicGeometryBuilder | A Geometry builder to interface with some of the basic tessellators. |
BasicVertexConstructor | A trait specifying how to create vertex values. |
FillGeometryBuilder | A Geometry builder to interface with the |
FillVertexConstructor | A trait specifying how to create vertex values. |
GeometryBuilder | An interface separating tessellators and other geometry generation algorithms from the actual vertex construction. |
GeometryReceiver | An interface with similar goals to |
StrokeGeometryBuilder | A Geometry builder to interface with the |
StrokeVertexConstructor | A trait specifying how to create vertex values. |
Type Definitions
TessellationResult | The fill tessellator's result type. |