Mipmapping for canvas. Ideas and comments.

[C. Boemann]

On Thursday 23 July 2009 22:54:43 Dmitry Kazakov wrote:
> >> Btw, Lukas, does openGL canvas do resampling in his own classes? 
Does
> >> it use hardware acceleration for that?
> >
> > I must say that this is not my expertise and I don't see much into it.
> > I suppose that the image is tiled to textures and then OpenGL handle
> > scaling/resizing.
> >
> > And OpenGL can do it with hardware if hardware supports it.
>
> I guess, it means that we can't add pyramid to krita/image. Right?
>
> There is a start variant of pyramid based on paint devices in
> attachment. What do you think of it?
>
> PS:
> I decided not to introduce a special paint device as in such a case we
> won't be able to use KisImage's projection as a zoom-level-1 image.
I like it