Other Line Rendering Methods
There are several other methods to render a basic solid stroke (but not considering the variable width). You can find them in several papers and online articles.
Paper and article list
- Polar Stroking: New Theory and Methods for Stroking Paths (Very Hard)
- Drawing Lines is Hard
- Instanced Line Rendering: part1 | part2
- ... Tell me more tutorials in the discussion
They may inspire some approaches to optimize the performance of the articulated line rendering in the future. To learn about them, I would recommend starting with Rye Terrell's Instanced Line Rendering, whose methods are simple enough to learn.