Instanced Line News Today

November 18, 2019 Native line rendering in WebGL leaves a lot to be desired. There’s inconsistency in the implementation, so you can’t trust that the line width you want will be available to you, for example. It’s also missing some pretty important features, like line joins and caps. For these reasons, quite a bit of work has been done to implement custom line rendering - summarized expertly by Matt Deslauriers in his excellent piece “Drawing Lines is Hard”. Still, there’s one piece...