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How to draw styled rectangles using the GPU and Metal

What's this blog post about?

This tutorial teaches how to draw styled rectangles using Metal graphics shaders. It covers drawing a rectangle, adding borders, rounding the rectangle's corners, and filling the rectangle with linear gradients. The text also explains concepts like distance fields, vector projections, and antialiasing. The code examples are in Metal, Appleā€™s official shader API. This tutorial is aimed at beginners who are new to GPU rendering.

Company
Warp

Date published
Nov. 18, 2021

Author(s)
Michelle Lim

Word count
809

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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