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HarfBuzz Slug Support with WebGL

19 pointsby mcraihatoday at 9:25 AM3 commentsview on HN

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notachatbot123today at 2:10 PM

HarfBuzz = text shaping engine, https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz

Slug = Formely patented font rendering algorithm for GPUs, freed 2 weeks ago https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html

tikimcfeetoday at 12:47 PM

Very cool. I've noticed slug popping up more often on HN and I've been thinking of finding a way to incorporate it into my project as well.

Is this yours? What's your rendering system like - anything novel or fun you run into when working with text and GPU parallelism?

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