True, this is something I struggled with writing and ended up with just a small note commenting that this is not widely applicable. Will clarify more in coming posts. It's all incredibly context specific. The reason for this order, is that you can very much can use all these approaches (SSAA, FXAA, MSAA etc.) for rendering simpler shapes and HUDs. So going through them, where these approaches break down and when it does make sense to go the extra mile with SDFs.

Still, non-standard rendering approaches are very much a thing [1] and I could see setups like [2] be used in scientific particle visualizations.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U0XVdvQwAI

[2] https://bgolus.medium.com/rendering-a-sphere-on-a-quad-13c92...