Re: [ft-devel] Signed distance fields: distance from any point to the glyph contours

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 12-10-31 09:25 AM, Nicolas Rougier wrote:
> What I had in mind was to generate the distance field on the software side 
> using exact distances (instead of approximating them from a rasterized glyph) 
> an to store the results in a texture. I know the result will be not so good 
> at very high resolution but this is a really fast rendering method with 
> acceptable results in a lot of cases.

I understand.  You still can do that with GLyphy.  As a minimum you can get
circular arcs from it and do whatever you want.