[Stuart Patterson] presents his guide for Advanced PCB Graphics in KiCAD ... using the Inkscape ‘trace bitmap’ tool. If you started with an SVG or similar vector shape, then you can skip ...

The guys are building the ORSoC graphics card around a Digilent Atlys FPGA dev board. So far, he can draw lines, textured triangles, bitmap or vector fonts, and throw a few 3D meshes up on the screen.