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I did something similar with regular DOM nodes and css flex here:

Every vertical line is a dom element.

I was considering moving to GPU rendering as the dom approach can take a long time to re render on changes.

The resulting style looks really cool. This would definitely be doable with the GPU. A halfway-step could be to draw rects on canvas too— it should be faster than the DOM approach, but less complicated than writing a GPU shader.

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