Use premultiplied alpha for X canvas

x/canvas/canvas.go

@@ -132,3 +132,32 @@ func convertColor (c color.Color) xgraphics.BGRA {
 		A: uint8(a >> 8),
 	}
 }
+
+// For some reason, xgraphics.BGRA does not specify whether or not it uses
+// premultiplied alpha, and information regarding this is contradictory.
+// Basically:
+//   - BGRAModel just takes the result of c.RGBA and bit shifts it, without
+//     un-doing the aplha premultiplication that is required by Color.RGBA,
+//     suggesting that xgraphics.BGRA stores alpha-premultiplied color.
+//   - xgraphics.BlendBGRA lerps between dest and src using only the alpha of
+//     src (temporarily converting the colors to fucking floats for some reason)
+//     which seems to suggest that xgraphics.BGRA *does not* store alpha-
+//     premultiplied color.
+// There is no issues page on xgbutil so we may never get an answer to this
+// question. However, in this package we just use xgraphics.BGRA to store alpha-
+// premultiplied color anyway because its way faster, and I would sooner eat
+// spaghetti with a spoon than convert to and from float64 to blend pixels.
+func blendPremultipliedBGRA (dst, src xgraphics.BGRA) xgraphics.BGRA {
+	// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_compositing
+	return xgraphics.BGRA {
+		B: blendPremultipliedChannel(dst.B, src.B, src.A),
+		G: blendPremultipliedChannel(dst.G, src.G, src.A),
+		R: blendPremultipliedChannel(dst.R, src.R, src.A),
+		A: blendPremultipliedChannel(dst.A, src.A, src.A),
+	}
+}
+
+func blendPremultipliedChannel (dst, src, a uint8) uint8 {
+	dst16, src16, a16 := uint16(dst), uint16(src), uint16(a)
+	return uint8(src16 + ((dst16 * (255 - a16)) >> 8))
+}