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Random knowledge, projects, and musings by Sam Ellicott

10 Dec 2024

Software

Wot’s all this then?

Sometimes I run across interesting videos about some aspect of software development. I’ve decided to start keeping a list of these topics and videos here. This might expand to multiple pages if it gets too crowded for a single page.

OpenGL Graphics and Font Rendering

At some point, I want to make a custom program for making animations and slides. That will require GPU accelerated graphics and text rendering. I’m collecting useful videos for that purpose.

Anti-aliased rendering of various 2d primitives with OpenGL on Windows with OpenGL

Method to parse and render TTF Fonts

Tsoding video on using TTF signed distance fields

Article on text rendering Font Rendering from First Principles

Math Tricks

A neat trick for using floating point division operations to improve the speed of 8-bit integer division

Software Books