Thorax Truetype is a library for loading and rendering TrueType fonts. This project grew out of a pedagogical exercise to have an easy to understand TrueType loader. My desire to do so came from stb_truetype being difficult to understand due to a lack of C++ features or type punning (the address computations required to index into the truetype tables are pretty incomprehensible as inline C code) and the size of the opentype loader.

The loader consists of two files: thorax_truetype.h thorax_truetype.cpp

In addition to the font loader, this project contains a font rasterizer in the renderer folder. The rasterizer uses a novel coverage algorithm and is capable of generated nicely anti-aliased renderings.

The files in the renderer: build.h : interface for managing text scenes bvh.cpp : implementation of bounding volume hierarchy builders drawcontext.h : context interface for drawing text to a bitmap drawcontext.cpp : context implementation for drawing text to a bitmap types.h : a variety of helper datatypes

A more detailed description of the rasterizer will come later.