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Author uses a lot of odd, confusing terminology and brings CPU baggage to the GPU creating the worst of both worlds. Shader hacks and CPU-bound partitioning and choosing the Greek letter alpha to be your accumulator in a graphics article? Oh my.

NV_path_rendering solved this in 2011. https://developer.nvidia.com/nv-path-rendering

It never became a standard but was a compile-time option in Skia for a long time. Skia of course solved this the right way.

https://skia.org/

parent badlibrarian 10 months ago

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