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msdfgen
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Shader Park Is Kinda Neat
This very well explained here https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen and with more details in link d pdf.
Basically, signed distance fields allow high resolution renders from low resolution rasters which represent character shape.
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SDF font rendering & cuttoff parameter value
No idea how to help you but I will just drop this since it improved the quality for me by 1000 https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen
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Best approach to render a lot of text.
And that's the complicated state of the art version for 3D perspective. Other versions are even simpler.
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Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS
This is known as a “multi-channel signed distance field”, or “msdf”.
https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen
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Font question: What software do you use to create "Signed Distance Field" from OTF or TTF?
I use this, free and has been very good for me https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen
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Why are SDF editors not more popular for creating assets?
Distance fields are not slow to render. They don't need a powerful gpu. Valve was already using SDF for textures in 2007 and released a paper about it. MSDF (multi channel signed distance fields) is a popular text libraries for game engine devs that uses distance fields. Distance fields are fast to render in 2D and even 3D. The problem is with everything around it. Lighting, shadows, shading will all require specialized tooling and likely a specialized engine for very little benefit (imo).
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Vector Graphics on GPU
Signed distance fields only work well for relatively simple characters.
If you have highly detailed characters like Chinese or emojis, you need larger resolution to faithfully represent every detail. One way to get around excessive memory requirements is to store the characters in their default vector forms and only render the required characters on demand, but then you might as well render them at the required pixel resolution and do away with the additional complexity of SDF rendering.
SDFs are still useful though if you have to render text at many different resolutions, for example on signs in computer games, as seen in the original paper https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2007/SIGGRAPH2007...
In the past, SDFs also had problems with sharp corners, which has been solved in https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen
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Adventures in Text Rendering: Kerning and Glyph Atlases
MSDFGen looks pretty sweet. https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen
rui
- Considerations for Power Draw with egui
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Floem - yet another new Rust native UI library
Inspired by Xilem, Leptos and rui, Floem aims to be a high performance declarative UI library with minimal effort from the user.
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Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS
My rui library can render UIs at 120fps, uses similar SDF techniques (though uses a single shader for all rendering): https://github.com/audulus/rui
Is their GPUI library open source?
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Tauri Mobile – Develop Mobile Apps with JavaScript and Rust
I think the jury is still out on whether rust is good or bad for UI. Once rust UI libraries are more mature we'll get a sense of it. There are some advantages of static typing, even for UI (see SwiftUI for example). I'll grant the pickiness of rust can be a challenge. Anyway give us some time to work on stuff.
Here's my effort: https://github.com/audulus/rui
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Rust GUI framework
rui
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Do you think is it worth to learn gtk4 to use it with rust?
Depending on the scale of your project, I could suggest rui library which is cross platform though it's not related to gtk, https://github.com/audulus/rui, It's inspired by swiftUI
- Show HN: Async UI: A Rust UI Library Where Everything Is a Future
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Vector Graphics on GPU
I've done a library for vector graphics on the GPU which works pretty well for my uses:
https://github.com/audulus/vger
and a rust version:
https://github.com/audulus/vger-rs
(which powers my rust GUI library: https://github.com/audulus/rui)
Here's the approach for rendering path fills. From the readme:
> The bezier path fill case is somewhat original. To avoid having to solve quadratic equations (which has numerical issues), the fragment function uses a sort-of reverse Loop-Blinn. To determine if a point is inside or outside, vger tests against the lines formed between the endpoints of each bezier curve, flipping inside/outside for each intersection with a +x ray from the point. Then vger tests the point against the area between the bezier segment and the line, flipping inside/outside again if inside. This avoids the pre-computation of Loop-Blinn, and the AA issues of Kokojima.
It works pretty well, and doesn't require as much preprocessing as the code in the article. Also doesn't require any GPU compute (though I do use GPU compute for some things). I think ultimately the approach in the article (essentially Piet-metal, aka tessellating and binning into tiles) will deliver better performance, and support more primitives, but at greater implementation complexity. I've tried the Piet-metal approach myself and it's tricky! I like the simpler Shadertoy/SDF inspired approach :)
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Is it conveninent to make cross-platform GUI softwares using Rust now?
You should look into rui, https://github.com/audulus/rui It is an amazing ui Library for rust
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Is there a common library for guis used in rust?
Try rui https://github.com/audulus/rui, It's a Swift Type ui
What are some alternatives?
msdf-atlas-gen - MSDF font atlas generator
floem - A native Rust UI library with fine-grained reactivity
8SSEDT - Tutorial about 8-points Signed Sequential Euclidean Distance Transform
dioxus - Fullstack GUI library for web, desktop, mobile, and more.
vello - An experimental GPU compute-centric 2D renderer.
slint - Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.
troika - A JavaScript framework for interactive 3D and 2D visualizations
Neothesia - Flashy Synthesia Like Software For Linux,Windows and MacOs
nanovg - Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.
7GUI - the 7 gui project
msdfgl - OpenGL implementation of the MSDF algorithm
LearningWGPU - I will try to learn the basics of WGPU and Rust.