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While i have already played with Athens (see PharoBoids) and liked it, i still miss the exact point about what it is.
I came up with these two diagrams (see below) by myself. Are they correct? And also there are the corresponding Canvas classes. What is their role?
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Athens is known to be the birthplace of democracy and the idea that all citizens should have a voice in governing their society. Athens also houses many historic landmarks, such as temples and theatres, which were made by ancient architects during the Classical period.
(ˈæθɪnz ) noun. the capital of Greece, in the southeast near the Saronic Gulf: became capital after independence in 1834; ancient city-state, most powerful in the 5th century bc; contains the hill citadel of the Acropolis.
After the establishment of the modern Greek state, and partly due to the conservatism of the written language, Ἀθῆναι [aˈθine] again became the official name of the city and remained so until the abandonment of Katharevousa in the 1970s, when Ἀθήνα, Athína, became the official name.
Athens is the capital and the largest city of Greece. It is a center for economic, political, financial and culture life in Greece. Athens is the symbol of freedom, art, and democracy in the conscience of the civilized world. Athens took its name from the goddess Athena, the goddess of wisdom and knowledge.
Athens is a vector graphics framework. It has own API, which going to replace Balloon/BitBlt used today in Morphic. The replacement will be gradual and at the end we want to have all Morphic widgets to use Athens API. Athens abstracts the implementation backend through its API. Currently, there is a fully supported backend with Cairo graphics library. Also there's a port of Athens for Amber (a browser-based smalltalk implementation). In a future we want to have more backends supported, like OpenGL (via nvPath extension or without it), Quartz on Mac OS, and GDI+ on Windows. Also, it is important to note, that Athens is standalone and low-level graphics API. There's no direct connection with Morphic except that Morphic using it for rendering (like anything else you can imagine, for instance: rendering into PDF or SVG content etc).
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