2007-10-1

Hydra in Flash Player 10

Today Adobe released a high-performance graphics programming language for image processing with the codename "Hydra" which is available in Astro (Flash Player 10). This looks quite interesting. It can be used to manipulate and create filters on images and videos. The source is available for Windows and Mac and is c based. Is this an alternative to GD or cairo? [via quasimondo]

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  1. Pierre 2007-10-2, 6:49 am

    for the vector graphics part, just like before hydra, if all you need is some shiny effects on the client side, then yes. it is better than cairo.

    For the bitmap processing, cairo has nothing but some basic operations. It is not planed to have either but for the vectors operation (it is a vector graphic rendering engine).

    GD will still be required on the server side anyway. Unless you are going to rely on flash and the client side for all your needs (and if you don’t need gif or other image formats.

    But it is nice to see this new API, many flash apps will profit from it :-)

  2. Manfred Weber 2007-10-2, 11:22 am

    yeah fully agree with you.

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