Drawing: Canvas Types & Backends

bewegung offers a set of “backends” for drawing on canvases. A specific backend can be selected and configured through the bewegung.Video.canvas() method. Full access to the inventory of backends and all of their functionality is provided through the backends dictionary.

The API in detail

• Canvas Factories: Video.canvas
• Inventory of backends
• Backend: DrawingBoard
  • The DrawingBoard Class
• Backend: pycairo
• Backend: Pillow
• Backend: datashader
• Backend: matplotlib
  • Accelerating matplotlib
• Defining & Registering Custom Backends
  • The BackendBase API
  • A Minimal Backend based on numpy
• Cross-Backend Abstraction: Colors
  • The Color API