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harfbuzz-wasm-examples
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harfbuzz / harfbuzz-wasm-examples

harfbuzz-wasm-examples

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erk__·Jun 20, 2024
Game of life is certainly possible someone saw my Bad Apple font and not only reproduced it, but also made a Maze [0] So the biggest issue is that you need something that uses harfbuzz where you can recompile and add a flag. If you look in this repo there is something precompiled for Mac [1] which was the software I used as well. You can also build harfbuzz as described here [2] and load it into some program. I used to just install it globally on arch and then use Gimp for the Bad apple example. And lastly the same person who made the maze also made a way to use LD_PRELOAD to load a custom harfbuzz into arbitary software so you can follow that guide as well: [3] [0]: https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Harfbuzz-WASM-Fantasy [1]: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples [2]: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/wasm-sha...
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[3]: https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Bad-Apple-Font
In Font as Tetris [video]
erk__·Jun 20, 2024
I did kinda the opposite and instead of making a font out of tetris I made a font play Tetris. I did it with the Harfbuzz shaper which now have experimental support for embedding WebAssembly programs to shape fonts. Talk where I show it off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms1Drb9Vw9M Source code: https://github.com/Erk-/programmable-fonts You can also see actual uses of this WebAssembly embedding to show that is not just for fun here: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples
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