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by IshKebab 86 days ago
This doesn't make any sense. Vector graphics aren't specified by rotating and walking a turtle, and that is obviously a tiny tiny trivial part of the vector graphics field. Try rendering a vector font directly on a GPU and see how far RIGHT 45 FORWARD 10 gets you.
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Pretty far? No idea about the sota in GPU vector rendering, but if you triangulate shapes, RIGHT 45 FORWARD 10 would produce a vertex buffer of points on the CPU, which could be rendered on the GPU.
GPU font rendering isn't done by converting the letters to polygons like that. That would be prohibitively expensive.