Re:I still use Flash in 2022
by ChuckMcM on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @04:04PM
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Yeah, this is something that many many people assume (vectors are "easy" on GPUs) and then are amazed (like I was!) that they aren't even in the function set. My thought was that if you were "accelerating" desktops you'd really want vectors right? But no.
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> they aren't even in the function set.
they are, but on nvidia only... https://developer.nvidia.com/gpu-accelerated-path-rendering
The saddest web page for graphics: https://patents.justia.com/patents-by-us-classification/345/...
The interesting thing is that graphics cards in the 90s - which were "desktop accelerators" past the low end - specifically supported accelerated 2D primitives, including Bezier curves for the more powerful ones. It was all gradually dropped as cards focused on 3D games specifically.