GLyphy: high-quality glyph rendering using OpenGL ES2 shaders - Behdad Esfahbod

This is the video of my GLyphy talk at linux.conf.au, Jan 10, 2014, Perth, Australia. Slides are available at http://github.com/behdad/slippy in Python. PDF available at http://behdad.org/glyphy_slides.pdf (Note: 18MB. Also, useless without commentary.)

Quoting http://linux.conf.au/schedule/30144/view_talk?day=wednesday

GLyphy: high-quality glyph rendering using OpenGL ES2 shaders

GLyphy is an experimental text rasterizer engine based on the OpenGL ES2

technology. Unlike traditional text rasterizers (eg. FreeType), all

rasterization happens on the GPU and in real time. Since its first public

appearance at Libre Graphics Meeting in 2012, GLyphy has gained more advanced

capabilities like anisotropic antialiasing and subpixel rendering, as well as

more efficient glyph storage and use of resources.

In this talk I will discuss the design, challenges, and benefits of new

approaches to text rasterization for the emerging types of computer hardware.

The algorithms and technics involved may prove useful in other computer

graphics contexts as well.

http://glyphy.org/

Behdad Esfahbod

Behdad Esfahbod was born and grew up in Iran loving typography and computers.

He studied computer engineering at Sharif University in Tehran while

discovering the world of computer typography and open source. In 2003 he moved

to Canada, studied at the University of Toronto, became a regular contributor

to GNOME and various other open source projects, worked at Red Hat, Google, and

generally became the go-to person regarding everything font and text rendering

in the Linux open source stack. For his contributions to HarfBuzz, Behdad was

one of the recipients of the O'Reilly Open Source Awards in 2013.

At Google, Behdad works as part of the Font and Text team, Google

Internationalization Engineering. When not hacking, he enjoys good food and

company, or books set in fine type.

Original video available for download at: http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2014/Wednesday/