Thursday, Mar 25
Fitting cubic Bézier curves
This post presents an efficient and accurate solution to cubic Bézier curve fitting, along with some insight into what makes this a hard problem.
~Raph
Raph’s posts on Joy of Computing
Bio: I'm an independent developer working on a music synthesis game. A lot of my focus these days is making Rust a great platform for creative work.
Wednesday, Mar 3
Cleaner parallel curves with Euler spirals
Raph demonstrates the use of Euler spirals as a simpler and more efficient representation for computing parallel curves.
Friday, Jan 15
The hyperbezier pen tool
A new model for a path-drawing pen tool that uses "hyperbezier" curves, which have two control points.
Sunday, Nov 8
Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation
made by Raph, submitted by davidbalbert
Raph wrote an overview of how text layout works. He's been working on text layout and rendering for over 35 years.
Thursday, Oct 8
Towards principled reactive UI
made by Raph, submitted by davidbalbert
Raph continues to explore the best ways to build reactive user interfaces, with a focus on Rust.
Friday, Sep 25
The compositor is evil
A blog post covering the history of the compositor introduced in Mac OS X and the tradeoffs it demands.
Wednesday, Jul 8
xi-editor retrospective
made by Raph, submitted by davidbalbert
A look back at Raph's experiences building Xi, a novel text editor written in Rust.
Saturday, Jun 20
Fast 2D rendering on GPU
made by Raph, submitted by nicholasbs
An overview of a new architecture for high-performance, 2D vector graphics rendering on the GPU.
Sunday, Apr 26
A Taste of GPU Compute
made by Raph, submitted by davidbalbert
A detailed overview of how GPUs work and approaches for effectively using GPUs for general purpose computing.
Saturday, Feb 22
GPU resources
made by Raph, submitted by nicholasbs
A collection of resources for GPU programming.