Gpu Font Rendering
These techniques work.
Gpu font rendering. Each glyph is rendered on the cpu and packed into a texture. Bowles b s computer science university of new mexico 1997 m s computer science university of new mexico 2013 abstract. The standard way of rendering text with the gpu is to use a font atlas. But looking at the internets it feels like things are getting interesting.
This can be done very quickly and is a well understood process. The glyphs described in a font are usually rendered using software that runs on the cpu. Here s an example from freetype gl. Things were super exciting in compression world.
I think the bitmap font stuff can be extended to rendering sdf signed distance field fonts which are nice enough for me but that is not ready to use out of the box. Gpu accelerate interactive and final frame rendering with optix ai accelerated denoising. The drawback with atlases is that you can t store every glyph at every possible size or you ll run out of memory. Tip disable hardware acceleration in mozilla firefox and thunderbird to fix font and crashing problems last updated on march 24 2011 by vg hardware acceleration gpu rendering is one of the newly introduced features in mozilla firefox and thunderbird it was introduced to increase performance but some firefox and thunderbird users may want to disable it as the text might not look well.
Move to gpu rendering. I had exactly the same outsider impression watching some discussions unfold between yann collet fabian giesen and charles bloom a few years ago and out of that came rans tans fse and oodle and zstandard. Font rendering using the gpu by je rey r. It also shows that the future for this solution is bright as rendering performance on devices will improve according to moore s law.
The description assumes a minimum familiarity with gpus. Access a rich feature set that includes ray switches flexible shading networks motion blur arbitrary output variables aovs deep output layered exr and much more. 2 1 1 font rasterization for mobile devices 2 previous work burden on cpu based rendering that the higher screen resolutions amount to. Dynamic gpu font rendering and advanced text layout slug is a software library that has become the professional standard for rendering high quality resolution independent text and vector graphics in 3d applications on the gpu.