Episode 5 of 9 · Figma
Drawing a letter without a font engine: winding numbers on the GPU
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Drawing a letter without a font engine: winding numbers on the GPU. A GPU draws triangles. A letter O is not triangles, and worse, it has a hole in the middle. One warning before we start: Figma's entire public record on their renderer is a single
Based on the board Drawing a Letter Without a Font Engine.
Covered in Figma - the case study.
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