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I am an independent software developer from the Czech Republic, a small country in Eastern Europe. I mainly specialize in the field of computer graphics. In this field, I have come up with some new ideas and algorithms, which are used by thousands of people for free, most notably multi-channel distance fields. My latest one is the analytic formula for shadows of triangle meshes.

Although I provide many of my projects for free as open-source (and several more are coming soon), so that other people can benefit from them, I spend a lot of my own free time building, updating, and maintaining these projects - time that I could be earning money, relaxing, or having fun instead.

That's why I'd like to ask you to please consider sponsoring my open-source work, so that I can dedicate as much time to it as possible.

These are some of my projects that I work on in my free time:

Shadron MSDFgen Artery Game Engine

  • Shadron - a comprehensive script-based program for procedural generation and modification of images using shader code
  • MSDFgen - a distance field generator for font glyphs and 2D shapes
  • MSDF-Atlas-Gen - a generator of SDF glyph atlas textures for real-time text rendering
  • Artery Engine - A 2D game engine that I use for my game development endeavors
  • MineSolver (forthcoming) - a header-only library for solving a generalized version of the game Minesweeper
  • Several game projects - I prefer not to make my work public until I'm certain I will be able to finish and release it so as to not disappoint my followers, but to give you an idea, here is an older school project I made in 2012 - Metro simulator

Metro simulator

@Chlumsky

At 10 sponsors, I will release a GPU-accelerated version of MSDFgen based on the Vulkan API.

Current sponsors 3

@Earthmark
@seanjensengrey
@xorgy
Past sponsors 6
@Dan0xE
@danscodelab
@Type1J
@SCSSoftware
@Cleroth
@gracicot

Featured work

  1. Chlumsky/msdfgen

    Multi-channel signed distance field generator

  2. Chlumsky/msdf-atlas-gen

    MSDF font atlas generator

    C++ 799

30% towards 10 monthly sponsors goal

@seanjensengrey @Earthmark
@xorgy

seanjensengrey and 2 others sponsor this goal

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