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Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting
Infrastructure lens: TrueType fonts have a hinting VM that grid-fits glyphs. It has a stack, storage area, conditionals, function calls, and it turns out it's Turing-complete. So I built a raycasting engine in the hinting bytecode. The glyph
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Summary
- Primary development: Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting
- Coverage synthesized from 1 sources in the cluster.
- This draft should be editor-reviewed before publication.
Key Facts
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Primary source | Hacker News |
| Source count | 1 |
| First published | 2026-04-06T19:25:39.000Z |
Sources
- Hacker News: https://github.com/4RH1T3CT0R7/ttf-doom