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• Andrew Bainbridge

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What is the Shovel Library?

Shovel Library is a collection of ultra-simple routines I've found useful for making small interactive graphics applications.

Functions include

• Window creation
• 32-bit RGBA bitmap creation
• Fast software based drawing routines (pixels, lines, text etc)
• Mouse and keyboard input

Details

• Very small - DLL is 11 KBytes
• Written in C++ but with a C interface (for ease of use from other languages)
• Python bindings provided
• Permissive BSD licence
• Win32 version currently. Linux and Mac planned.

Performance

Running on Windows XP on a single core of an Intel Core i3 530 (3.4 GHz):

• Putpixel - 31 million per second
• Rectangle fill - 11 billion pixels per second
• Text render - 11 million characters per second (8 point, fixed width font)