Surma • 4/24/2017

DOM2Texture: Abusing Arcane APIs

This article details a creative hack to leverage the browser's built-in layout and font rendering engines for WebGL applications. It explains how to embed HTML within SVG using <foreignObject>, encode it as a data URL, and draw it to a canvas to create a texture, avoiding the need to manually implement text rendering and UI layout in OpenGL/WebGL.

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#svg #canvas #dom