forma

We have hosted the application forma in order to run this application in our online workstations with Wine or directly.

Quick description about forma:

Forma is an experimental vector graphics renderer written in Rust, developed by Google to explore high-performance, parallelized rendering techniques across multiple platforms. The project aims to achieve portability, performance, simplicity, and small footprint through a streamlined four-stage rendering pipeline. Forma provides both CPU (software) and GPU (hardware) backends, relying on Rust�s SIMD auto-vectorization, Rayon for multithreading, and WebGPU (wgpu) for hardware acceleration. The renderer processes B�zier curves, line segments, and pixels through stages of flattening, rasterization, sorting, and painting, updating only changed tiles for efficiency. This design allows Forma to render complex vector scenes�such as large-scale SVGs�at interactive frame rates even on CPUs.

Features:

• Cross-platform support for Linux, macOS, Windows, Fuchsia, Android, and iOS
• Dual backends for CPU (SIMD-optimized) and GPU (WebGPU) rendering
• Four-stage pipeline: curve flattening, rasterization, sorting, and painting
• Curvature-aware flattening and efficient tile-based rendering updates
• High parallelization using Rayon and Rust�s auto-vectorization
• Minimal dependencies focused exclusively on vector graphics performance

Programming Language: Rust.
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