A Decade of Slug
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#2This is wonderful news, and my sincere thanks to the author.
I remember coming upon this algorithm several years ago, and thinking it was extremely elegant and very appealing, but being disappointed by the patent status making it unusable for FOSS work. I really appreciate the author's choice to dedicate it to the public domain after a reasonable amount of time, and congratulations on the success it had while proprietary!
Now if I ever get around to writing that terminal emulator for fun, I'll be tempted to do it with this algorithm for the code's aesthetic appeal.
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#3Thank you for your service!
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#4Here's an alternate if you're also getting connection reset errors:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260317185928/https://terathon....
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#5Is it on ShaderToy yet? :D
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#6Here's an alternate if you're also getting connection reset errors: https://web.archive.org/web/20260317185928/https://terathon....
We'll put that link in the toptext as well. Thanks!
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#7This is wonderful news, and my sincere thanks to the author. I remember coming upon this algorithm several years ago, and thinking it was extremely elegant and very appealing, but being disappointed by the patent status making it unusable for FOSS work. I really appreciate the author's choice to dedicate it to the public domain after a reasonable amount of time, and congratulations on the success it had while proprie…
Software patents valid for 8 years is actually something I could get behind.
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#8Love it when someone who makes complex, helpful software is rewarded for their efforts. More stories like this!
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#9Oh wow this is crazy. This was a project that was reasonably successful commercially. And now it’s just being given away open source? What an absolutely incredibly gift to the community!!
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#10I am sorta in a position where implementing a glyph renderer as a compute shader would be helpful. This is a great opportunity to use this as a reference... exciting weekend project!