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I though that there were some "GPU accelerated path rendering" already 10 years ago ? https://developer.nvidia.com/nv-path-rendering https://developer.nvidia.com/gpu-accelerated-path-rendering

(OK those links are for NVidia, but if they can do it I guess others can too ?) (also see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262357352_GPU-accel... )

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Riffing off of other recent HN posts, I'm wondering if signed distance fields might be a contender for 2d strokes.

I've seen some font rendering work that has already embraced them for high perf rasterization.

Still, may be hard to get flash equivalency.

Also, as far as I understood, both GNU Gnash and Lightspark were using OpenGL for rendering. So I always expected that GPU would still bring some sort of acceleration for 2D path rendering ?

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