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I expected to have to wait 12 more years to write this post. Back in 2017, Eric Lengyel published the landmark paper, “GPU-Centered Font Rendering Directly from Glyph Outlines” in the Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques. This paper introduced the Slug algorithm, a way of efficiently rasterizing text on the GPU without first rasterizing to […]

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