Related Resources

Talks

• 2022-04-13-World-in-Vectors

Related Projects

• Tangram Renderer
• Tilezen/Nextzen
• Protomaps: New Maps Stack
• Harp GL

GIS

• Google Maps Projection
• Grid Calculation Examples
• Slippy map tilenames (also known as XYZ)
• TMS
• Mapbox Adaptive Projections
• Bing Map Tile System
• Bing: Understanding Scale and Resolution

WebAssembly and WebWorkers

Specs:

• Thread/Atomics Proposal for WASM

Projects:

• Experiment with shared memory and the idea behind it
• Shared channel
• Bridge for async executors
• Rayon for WebAssembly
• wasm-mt: postMessage message passing

Articles:

• WebAssembly Threads (official)
• Multithreading Rust and Wasm 2018
• postMessage Performance
• A practical guide to WebAssembly memory

Examples:

• WASM in a WebWorker
• Building for Shared Memory
• Parallel Raytracing

Rendering

Specs:

• WebGPU Spec
• WGSL Spec
• WGSL Struct Alignment
• Mismatches Stencil Test

Articles:

• Life of a Tile (MapLibre)

Tutorials:

• Stencil Testing
• Camera
• Writing an efficient Vulkan renderer

Examples:

• Stencil Mask Example
• WGPU Examples

Maths

Articles:

• Magnificent Matrix

Examples:

• Dolly Camera

Font Rendering

Specs:

• MapBox Glyphs Spec

Articles:

• Signed distance function

Projects:

• Mapbox fontnik
• TinySDK (JS)
• RustType
• SDF Render
• pbf_font_tools
• Multi-channel signed distance field generator
  • MSDF font atlas generator

Tessellation

Projects:

• earcutr
• Line Tessellation in MapLibre

Specifications

• TileJSON

Render Graphs

• https://github.com/metal-by-example/simple-instancing/blob/master/MetalSimpleInstancing/Renderer.swift
• https://github.com/troughton/Substrate
• https://de.slideshare.net/DICEStudio/framegraph-extensible-rendering-architecture-in-frostbite
• http://themaister.net/blog/2017/08/15/render-graphs-and-vulkan-a-deep-dive/
• http://themaister.net/blog/2017/08/15/render-graphs-and-vulkan-a-deep-dive/

Animation

• https://crates.io/crates/pareen
• https://crates.io/crates/keyframe