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I'm very happy to see this work! The era of rendering vector graphics in GPU compute shaders is upon us, and I have no doubt it we'll start seeing these in production soon, as there's just such a performance advantage over CPU rendering, and I believe trying to run vector 2D graphics through the GPU rasterization pipeline doesn't quite work. This code is simpler than Vello (the new name for piet-gpu), focused on vect…
Mozilla peeps, is it conceivable that this could eventually get into firefox, or is it not the right fit in some way. There was a recent discussion about map rendering and I commented to "just convert to SVG and let the browser render it" to which someone said that's too slow, to which I said "so improve the browsers vector rendering" rather than do a high performance renderer just for map software.
A while ago I wanted to make some vector-based toy games for fun. I surveyed the available options and basically couldn't find any. If an engine supports vector graphics, it wants to rasterize them ASAP. If I asked online, the general answer was, "GPUs are for rasters, it gets rasterized one way or another. So just do that." I dunno. I'm not that bright. I don't fully understand it all. But I feel like it should be e…
Get a NeXT workstation and use Display Postscript?
I'm very happy to see this work! The era of rendering vector graphics in GPU compute shaders is upon us, and I have no doubt it we'll start seeing these in production soon, as there's just such a performance advantage over CPU rendering, and I believe trying to run vector 2D graphics through the GPU rasterization pipeline doesn't quite work. This code is simpler than Vello (the new name for piet-gpu), focused on vect…
Haven't Skia et al been GPU accelerated for ages?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're a Google employee, there's a few different paths to 'legally' open sourcing stuff without violating your employment contract. The simplest and fastest one is just to assign copyright to Google, use an approved license (basically anything non-copyleft) and stick it under the google/ github org. It being there doesn't mean Google sponsored or authored it, just that a Googler worked/works on it. And the "not o…
When you leave employment at Google do you typically retain your github account and contribution rights to the repo?
Commit rights, I'm actually not clear on, but by default I think you'd lose rights. I believe there's likely a process for keeping them,, but I don't recall what it is. The one repo I contributed to that followed this process was essentially abandoned long before I left Google.
I'm very happy to see this work! The era of rendering vector graphics in GPU compute shaders is upon us, and I have no doubt it we'll start seeing these in production soon, as there's just such a performance advantage over CPU rendering, and I believe trying to run vector 2D graphics through the GPU rasterization pipeline doesn't quite work. This code is simpler than Vello (the new name for piet-gpu), focused on vect…
Thank you for the endorsement. Looking forward to collaborating more with you on 2D graphics.
A while ago I wanted to make some vector-based toy games for fun. I surveyed the available options and basically couldn't find any. If an engine supports vector graphics, it wants to rasterize them ASAP. If I asked online, the general answer was, "GPUs are for rasters, it gets rasterized one way or another. So just do that." I dunno. I'm not that bright. I don't fully understand it all. But I feel like it should be e…
> I'm excited about any sort of project to get you vector graphics as close to the metal as possible before being rasterized Get a NeXT workstation and use Display Postscript?
Like, how does sorting pixel segments result in coverage masks? Is there an accumulator somewhere that isn't mentioned?
What's a pixel segment exactly? Just a list of pixel coordinates that intersect?
I'm very happy to see this work! The era of rendering vector graphics in GPU compute shaders is upon us, and I have no doubt it we'll start seeing these in production soon, as there's just such a performance advantage over CPU rendering, and I believe trying to run vector 2D graphics through the GPU rasterization pipeline doesn't quite work. This code is simpler than Vello (the new name for piet-gpu), focused on vect…
Haven't Skia et al been GPU accelerated for ages?