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SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

180 points · 72 comments · ibobev

  1. jdanford · · focus · HN ↗
    Man, I am getting incredibly tired of reading LLM-generated writing
    1. 20k · · focus · HN ↗
      What signals this as being LLM writing for you? I'm crap at noticing specifics here
      1. tokenscoper · · focus · HN ↗
        For me, it was this part of the paragraph:

        > There is no atlas, so a hundred thousand CJK glyphs cost a font's worth of outline data, not an atlas the size of a video. Text can change every frame at no baking cost, which is exactly what you want for live data, user input, and localized content. And it all happens in a single draw with an ordinary fragment shader, no vendor extension required.

        Specifically, these sentence structures:

        1. ... so <blah> costs <blah>, not <blah>.

        2. And <blah>, no <blah>.

        3. ... fixed resolution ahead of time, which quietly ...

        1. mbrumlow · · focus · HN ↗
          They were the trained on human text right? So maybe that is the way human text as whole reads.

          Maybe what we are seeing is us internet dwellers being exposed to wiring styles of humanity we had not been exposed to ?

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