Discussion

A Decade of Slug

moralestapia: Thank you for your service!

VikingCoder: Is it on ShaderToy yet? :D

miloignis: This is wonderful news, and my sincere thanks to the author. I remember coming upon this algorithm several years ago, and thinking it was extremely elegant and very appealing, but being disappointed by the patent status making it unusable for FOSS work. I really appreciate the author's choice to dedicate it to the public domain after a reasonable amount of time, and congratulations on the success it had while proprietary!Now if I ever get around to writing that terminal emulator for fun, I'll be tempted to do it with this algorithm for the code's aesthetic appeal.

actionfromafar: Software patents valid for 8 years is actually something I could get behind.

Vipitis: I am sorta in a position where implementing a glyph renderer as a compute shader would be helpful. This is a great opportunity to use this as a reference... exciting weekend project!

swiftcoder: Lengyel continues to be standup dude, kudos!