diff --git a/src/webgl/ShapeBuilder.js b/src/webgl/ShapeBuilder.js
index 4b0099db50..124fa62bfa 100644
--- a/src/webgl/ShapeBuilder.js
+++ b/src/webgl/ShapeBuilder.js
@@ -313,6 +313,27 @@ export class ShapeBuilder {
       }
     }
 
+    // Normalize nearly identical consecutive vertices to prevent tessellation artifacts
+    // This addresses numerical precision issues in libtess when consecutive vertices
+    // have coordinates that are almost (but not exactly) equal (e.g., differing by ~1e-8)
+    const epsilon = 1e-6;
+    for (const contour of contours) {
+      const stride = this.tessyVertexSize;
+      for (let i = stride; i < contour.length; i += stride) {
+        const prevX = contour[i - stride];
+        const prevY = contour[i - stride + 1];
+        const currX = contour[i];
+        const currY = contour[i + 1];
+
+        if (Math.abs(currX - prevX) < epsilon) {
+          contour[i] = prevX;
+        }
+        if (Math.abs(currY - prevY) < epsilon) {
+          contour[i + 1] = prevY;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
     const polyTriangles = this._triangulate(contours);
 
     // If there were no valid faces, we still want to use the original vertices
diff --git a/test/unit/visual/cases/webgl.js b/test/unit/visual/cases/webgl.js
index 1b644a27a0..375a3ebfaf 100644
--- a/test/unit/visual/cases/webgl.js
+++ b/test/unit/visual/cases/webgl.js
@@ -1242,4 +1242,77 @@ visualSuite('WebGL', function() {
       screenshot();
     });
   });
+
+  visualSuite('Tessellation', function() {
+    visualTest('Handles nearly identical consecutive vertices', function(p5, screenshot) {
+      p5.createCanvas(400, 400, p5.WEBGL);
+      
+      const contours = [
+        [
+          [-3.8642425537109375, -6.120738636363637, 0],
+          [3.2025188099254267, -6.120738636363637, 0],
+          [3.2025188099254267, -4.345170454545455, 0],
+          [-3.8642425537109375, -4.345170454545455, 0],
+          [-3.8642425537109375, -6.120738636363637, 0]
+        ],
+        [
+          [-1.8045834628018462, 4.177556818181818, 0],
+          [-1.8045834628018462, -9.387784090909093, 0],
+          [0.29058699174360836, -9.387784090909093, 0],
+          [0.2905869917436083, 3.609374411367136, 0],
+          [0.31044303036623855, 4.068235883781435, 0],
+          [0.38522861430307975, 4.522728865422799, 0],
+          [0.548044378107245, 4.941051136363637, 0],
+          [0.8364672032828204, 5.2932224887960775, 0],
+          [1.2227602871981542, 5.526988636363637, 0],
+          [1.6572258237923885, 5.634502949876295, 0],
+          [2.101666537198154, 5.669034090909091, 0],
+          [2.6695604948237173, 5.633568761673102, 0],
+          [3.0249619917436084, 5.5625, 0],
+          [3.4510983553799726, 7.4446022727272725, 0],
+          [2.8568950819856695, 7.613138889205699, 0],
+          [2.3751340936529037, 7.676962586830456, 0],
+          [1.8892600236717598, 7.693181792704519, 0],
+          [1.2922705720786674, 7.649533731133848, 0],
+          [0.7080836288276859, 7.519788939617751, 0],
+          [0.14854153719815422, 7.311434659090909, 0],
+          [-0.38643934048179873, 7.00959666478984, 0],
+          [-0.858113258144025, 6.61653855366859, 0],
+          [-1.25415732643821, 6.1484375, 0],
+          [-1.5108595282965422, 5.697682732328092, 0],
+          [-1.6824918355513252, 5.207533878495854, 0],
+          [-1.7762971052870198, 4.695933154267308, 0],
+          [-1.8045834628018462, 4.177556818181818, 0]
+        ]
+      ];
+      
+      p5.background('red');
+      p5.push();
+      p5.stroke(0);
+      p5.fill('#EEE');
+      p5.scale(15);
+      p5.beginShape();
+      for (const contour of contours) {
+        p5.beginContour();
+        for (const v of contour) {
+          p5.vertex(...v);
+        }
+        p5.endContour();
+      }
+      p5.endShape();
+
+      p5.stroke(0, 255, 0);
+      p5.strokeWeight(5);
+      p5.beginShape(p5.POINTS);
+      for (const contour of contours) {
+        for (const v of contour) {
+          p5.vertex(...v);
+        }
+      }
+      p5.endShape();
+      p5.pop();
+
+      screenshot();
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/test/unit/visual/screenshots/WebGL/Tessellation/Handles nearly identical consecutive vertices/000.png b/test/unit/visual/screenshots/WebGL/Tessellation/Handles nearly identical consecutive vertices/000.png
new file mode 100644
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diff --git a/test/unit/visual/screenshots/WebGL/Tessellation/Handles nearly identical consecutive vertices/metadata.json b/test/unit/visual/screenshots/WebGL/Tessellation/Handles nearly identical consecutive vertices/metadata.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2d4bfe30da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/visual/screenshots/WebGL/Tessellation/Handles nearly identical consecutive vertices/metadata.json	
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "numScreenshots": 1
+}
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