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A Decade of Slug


f Slug Eric Lengyel • March 17, 2026 What is now known as the Slug Algorithm for rendering fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU was developed in the Fall of 2016, so this year marks a full decade since its inception. I published a paper in JCGT about the technique in the middle of 2017, and my company sold the first license for version 1.0 of the Slug Library not long afterward.

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