Open-source graphics software
2502 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged graphics, ranked by how closely graphics is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
2502 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| ConsistentlyInconsistentYT/Pixeltovoxelprojector A Python tool that projects the motion of pixels onto a voxel representation, converting 2D pixel movement into 3D voxel space. It is a pop… | 39 | 1860 | active |
| mkazhdan/PoissonRecon An implementation of Poisson Surface Reconstruction for turning oriented point clouds into watertight 3D meshes, evolved into a general ada… | 55 | 1858 | stable |
| CeTZ CeTZ is a drawing library for the Typst typesetting system with an API inspired by TikZ and Processing. It enables programmatic creation of… | 83 | 1856 | active |
| mltframework/mlt MLT is an LGPL multimedia framework for authoring, managing, and running multitrack audio/video compositions, originally built for televisi… | 88 | 1852 | active |
| CesiumGS/obj2gltf A Node.js tool and library that converts Wavefront OBJ 3D model assets to glTF 2.0, supporting both .gltf and binary .glb output. It handle… | 52 | 1852 | active |
| simplex-noise A fast, dependency-free simplex noise library in JavaScript/TypeScript supporting 2D, 3D, and 4D noise with optional seeding via a custom P… | 23 | 1850 | stable |
| ThorVG ThorVG is a lightweight, production-ready C++ vector graphics engine for rendering SVG, Lottie animations, and vector scenes across embedde… | 97 | 1849 | stable |
| tdewolff/canvas A Go library providing a common vector drawing target that can output SVG, PDF, EPS, raster images, HTML Canvas via WASM, OpenGL, and Gio. … | 75 | 1842 | active |
| veltman/flubber A JavaScript library providing best-guess methods for smoothly interpolating between arbitrary 2-D shapes, such as SVG path strings or poin… | 32 | 6938 | maintenance |
| durdraw/durdraw Durdraw is a terminal-based ASCII, Unicode, and ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems, inspired by classic DOS editors like TheDraw and Pab… | 86 | 1839 | active |
| sm64pc/sm64ex sm64ex is a cross-platform PC port of Super Mario 64, forked from sm64-port with additional features such as an options menu, custom textur… | 32 | 1837 | active |
| jchanvfx/NodeGraphQt NodeGraphQt is a node graph UI framework written in Python using Qt (PySide2), providing an embeddable node editor with nodes, pipes, palet… | 69 | 1835 | active |
| Stability-AI/stable-fast-3d Stable Fast 3D (SF3D) is Stability AI's open-source model that reconstructs a textured, UV-unwrapped 3D mesh from a single input image in a… | 24 | 1834 | active |
| UPBGE/upbge UPBGE is a fork of Blender that continues development of the Blender Game Engine after its removal from official Blender. It cleans up and … | 85 | 1833 | active |
| OpenBoardView/OpenBoardView OpenBoardView is a Linux/macOS SDL/ImGui application for viewing .brd board files, intended as a drop-in replacement for Test_Link/Landrex … | 78 | 1830 | active |
| kkoomen/pointless Pointless is an endless drawing canvas desktop app built with Tauri (Rust) and React, using a pure SVG canvas. It serves as a simple whiteb… | 23 | 1829 | active |
| ViroReact ViroReact is an open-source MIT-licensed library for building augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality experiences using React… | 98 | 1828 | active |
| letoram/arcan Arcan is a development framework and multimedia engine for building everything from embedded UIs to full standalone desktop environments, s… | 71 | 1828 | active |
| Curtains.js curtains.js is a lightweight vanilla WebGL JavaScript library that converts HTML DOM elements containing images, videos, and canvases into … | 35 | 1827 | active |
| Engo Engo is an open-source 2D game engine written in Go that follows the Entity Component System (ECS) paradigm. It compiles for desktop platfo… | 52 | 1823 | active |
| VulkanSceneGraph VulkanSceneGraph (VSG) is a modern, high-performance scene graph library built on the Vulkan graphics/compute API, written in C++17 followi… | 91 | 1820 | active |
| GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/FidelityFX-SDK AMD's FidelityFX SDK (FSR SDK) is a collection of heavily optimized GPU techniques for DirectX 12 and Vulkan applications, including super … | 74 | 1820 | active |
| tuanchauict/MonoSketch MonoSketch is a fully client-side web application for creating ASCII diagrams and text-based visualizations. It runs entirely in the browse… | 48 | 1820 | active |
| NanoComp/meep Meep is a free, open-source finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation package for solving Maxwell's equations in 1D, 2D, 3D, and cyli… | 95 | 1819 | active |
| Inochi2D Inochi2D is a D-language library and SDK for realtime 2D puppet animation, deforming layered 2D artwork meshes at runtime to create the ill… | 67 | 1817 | active |
| dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of the DOSBox DOS emulator with advanced graphics, sound, and emulation features and current develo… | 88 | 1814 | active |
| microsoft/DirectXMath DirectXMath is an all-inline SIMD C++ linear algebra library for games and graphics applications, supporting SSE, AVX, and ARM NEON instruc… | 82 | 1814 | stable |
| mitsuba-renderer/nanogui NanoGUI is a minimalistic cross-platform C++/Python widget library for building GUIs rendered with OpenGL 3+, GLES 2/3, Metal, and WebGL vi… | 75 | 1814 | active |
| zju3dv/4K4D 4K4D is a research implementation of a 4D point cloud representation for real-time dynamic view synthesis at up to 4K resolution, built on … | 70 | 1814 | active |
| xflr6/graphviz A Python library providing a simple interface for creating and rendering graph descriptions in the DOT language using the Graphviz graph dr… | 70 | 1814 | active |
| magjac/d3-graphviz A D3 module that renders SVG graphs from Graphviz DOT source using the @hpcc-js/wasm Graphviz port, with animated transitions between graph… | 23 | 1814 | active |
| rust-skia/rust-skia Safe Rust bindings for Google's Skia 2D graphics library, providing idiomatic Rust access to Skia's C++ API. It supports GPU rendering back… | 84 | 1813 | active |
| KAPLAY KAPLAY is a fun-first 2D game library for JavaScript and TypeScript, formerly known as Kaboom.js. It uses a component-based game object sys… | 84 | 1813 | active |
| emacs-ng/emacs-ng emacs-ng is a fork of GNU Emacs that adds a native layer with Deno's JavaScript/TypeScript runtime, async I/O, threading, and Mozilla's GPU… | 78 | 1809 | active |
| acaudwell/Logstalgia Logstalgia is a website access log visualization tool that replays or streams web server access logs as a retro, pong-like arcade game simu… | 59 | 1808 | active |
| s-macke/VoxelSpace A minimal implementation of the Voxel Space terrain rendering algorithm used in the 1992 game Comanche, written in C in under 20 lines of c… | 32 | 6792 | maintenance |
| pencil2d/pencil Pencil2D is a free, open-source desktop application for creating traditional 2D hand-drawn animations using both bitmap and vector graphics… | 87 | 1806 | active |
| pelicanmapping/osgearth osgEarth is a C++ SDK for adding geospatially accurate 3D maps and terrain rendering to desktop applications, built on OpenSceneGraph and G… | 82 | 1805 | active |
| GValiente/butano Butano is a modern C++ high-level game engine for the Game Boy Advance, offering one-line APIs for sprites, backgrounds, text, and raster e… | 99 | 1802 | active |
| WiVRn/WiVRn WiVRn is a fully open-source OpenXR application that wirelessly streams VR games from a Linux PC to standalone Android-based VR headsets li… | 94 | 1802 | active |
| leukbaars/DreamUV DreamUV is a Blender add-on providing a collection of tools for manipulating UVs directly in the 3D viewport. It is designed for texturing … | 63 | 1800 | active |
| Effekseer Effekseer is an open-source particle effect editing tool for creating visual effects, primarily aimed at game development. Effects authored… | 93 | 1797 | active |
| lmn1919/dompdf.js dompdf.js is a pure-frontend DOM-to-PDF engine built with Rust, WebAssembly, and TypeScript that renders vector PDFs directly in the browse… | 86 | 1794 | active |
| LovyanGFX A fast display graphics library for ESP32, ESP8266, and ATSAMD51 supporting SPI, I2C, and parallel-connected LCD/OLED/EPD panels. It offers… | 100 | 1793 | active |
| jakubfiala/atrament Atrament is a small JavaScript library for natural-feeling drawing and handwriting on the HTML Canvas, with adaptive smoothing, draw/fill/e… | 60 | 1793 | active |
| rsheldiii/KeyV2 A parametric keycap and keyset construction library for mechanical keyboards, written in OpenSCAD. It lets users programmatically generate … | 32 | 1792 | active |
| electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert The officially released source code for Command & Conquer: Red Alert, a classic real-time strategy game by Westwood Studios, published by E… | 10 | 6704 | maintenance |
| 2swap/swaptube SwapTube is a C++ framework for programmatically rendering YouTube videos, built on FFMPEG with custom graphics code above the encoding lay… | 75 | 1787 | active |
| ricktu288/ray-optics A free, open-source web application for creating and simulating 2D geometric optical scenes interactively. It supports a wide range of opti… | 90 | 1784 | active |
| eva-engine/eva.js Eva.js is a front-end 2D game engine built on an Entity-Component-System architecture with a PixiJS-powered rendering pipeline. It ships as… | 72 | 1783 | active |
| dimforge/kiss3d kiss3d is a simple 2D and 3D graphics engine for Rust built on WebGPU, designed to let users draw simple geometric figures with minimal fri… | 76 | 1782 | active |
| orx/orx Orx is a portable, data-driven 2D/2.5D game engine written in C with C/C++ APIs. It emphasizes configuration-driven object creation, render… | 80 | 1778 | stable |
| zeux/niagara A Vulkan renderer written from scratch in C++ during live-streamed development sessions, experimenting with modern Vulkan rendering techniq… | 76 | 1778 | active |
| chenjd/Render-Crowd-Of-Animated-Characters A Unity library that bakes skeletal animation data into an animation map texture and uses GPU instancing to render tens of thousands of ani… | 32 | 1777 | active |
| DanielChappuis/reactphysics3d ReactPhysics3D is an open-source C++ physics engine library for 3D simulations and games, providing rigid body dynamics, collision detectio… | 25 | 1775 | active |
| giventofly/pixelit Pixel It is a JavaScript library that converts images into pixel art on an HTML canvas, with configurable pixel scale, color palettes, and … | 56 | 1773 | active |
| MonoGame-Extended/Monogame-Extended MonoGame.Extended is a set of open-source C# libraries distributed via NuGet that extend MonoGame with common game development utilities. I… | 92 | 1768 | active |
| pocket-stack/pocketjs PocketJS is a portable application runtime that compiles Solid, Vue Vapor, or Octane component code into a native UI tree rendered by a no_… | 81 | 1768 | active |
| tabatkins/railroad-diagrams A small JS and Python library for generating railroad (syntax) diagrams as SVG or Unicode text, like those on JSON.org. It visually represe… | 65 | 1767 | stable |
| blendi-remade/sprite-sheet-creator A Next.js web application that generates 2D pixel art sprite sheets and game maps from text prompts or uploaded images using fal.ai image m… | 53 | 1767 | active |
| sp4cerat/Fast-Quadric-Mesh-Simplification A fast, memory-efficient C++ library and CLI tool implementing quadric-based edge collapse mesh simplification to reduce triangle counts in… | 32 | 1767 | stable |
| VoxelPlugin/VoxelPluginFreeLegacy Voxel Plugin Legacy is a free Unreal Engine plugin for creating and editing voxel-based terrain and worlds in C++. It supports Unreal Engin… | 69 | 1765 | active |
| microsoft/DirectXTK12 DirectX Tool Kit for DirectX 12 is a C++ library of helper classes for writing Direct3D 12 code, covering sprite rendering, effects, textur… | 83 | 1763 | stable |
| GAP-LAB-CUHK-SZ/gaustudio GauStudio is a modular PyTorch framework for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) research and development, supporting novel view synthesis, 3D rec… | 46 | 1763 | active |
| flexible-collision-library/fcl FCL is a C++ library for performing proximity queries on pairs of geometric models composed of triangles. It supports collision detection, … | 67 | 1762 | stable |
| duerrsimon/bioicons Bioicons is a free, open-source library of SVG vector icons for scientific illustrations in biology and chemistry, browsable through a web … | 67 | 1762 | active |
| TriAxis-Games/RealtimeMeshComponent An MIT-licensed Unreal Engine 5 plugin providing a high-performance component for rendering runtime-generated and runtime-modified geometry… | 80 | 1760 | active |
| lo-th/3d.city 3d.city is an open-source, browser-based 3D city building game rendered with Three.js via WebGL2 or WebGPU. It uses the micropolisJS simula… | 63 | 1756 | active |
| kirevdokimov/Unity-UI-Rounded-Corners A Unity package providing components and shaders that add rounded corners to UGUI Image elements. It supports uniform or per-corner radii, … | 23 | 1753 | stable |
| SirRamEsq/SmartShape2D SmartShape2D is a Godot editor plugin for creating nicely textured 2D polygons and terrain by placing points and assigning shape materials.… | 80 | 1752 | active |
| Jdenticon Jdenticon is a JavaScript library for generating deterministic, highly recognizable identicon avatars from hash values, rendered via HTML5 … | 23 | 1752 | stable |
| PocketLCD PocketLCD is an open-source hardware project for a DIY 5.5-inch 1080p portable monitor that doubles as a power bank. It includes PCB design… | 32 | 6534 | maintenance |
| schrodinger/pymol-open-source The open-source foundation of PyMOL, a molecular visualization system for rendering and analyzing 3D structures of proteins, nucleic acids,… | 71 | 1748 | active |
| Lopaka Lopaka is a browser-based graphics editor for designing pixel-perfect UIs for embedded displays, with code generation for libraries like U8… | 72 | 1746 | active |
| waveshareteam/e-Paper Waveshare's official driver and example code library for their e-Paper (e-ink) display modules, supporting Raspberry Pi, Jetson Nano, Ardui… | 73 | 1743 | active |
| rougier/freetype-gl A small C library for rendering Unicode text in OpenGL using a single texture atlas and a single vertex buffer, built on top of FreeType. I… | 61 | 1743 | stable |
| xibyte/jsketcher JSketcher is a parametric 2D and 3D CAD modeler written in pure JavaScript/TypeScript that runs entirely in the browser with no server-side… | 54 | 1743 | active |
| deal.II deal.II is a C++ library for solving partial differential equations using adaptive finite elements, with support for dimension-independent … | 87 | 1737 | stable |
| MengTo/kage Kage is an interactive five-chapter night walk through a Kyoto mountain temple, rendered live in Three.js/WebGL with procedural architectur… | 53 | 1734 | stable |
| HackerPoet/NonEuclidean A non-Euclidean rendering engine for 3D scenes written in C++ with OpenGL, targeting Windows. It ships with several demo rooms that showcas… | 32 | 6459 | maintenance |
| realism-effects A collection of postprocessing effects for three.js that enhance scene realism, including screen-space global illumination (SSGI), motion b… | 32 | 1732 | active |
| kopiro/siriwave A JavaScript library that replicates the Apple Siri voice assistant wave-form animation using the Canvas API. It supports classic iOS, iOS9… | 23 | 1732 | stable |
| openstreetmap-carto/openstreetmap-carto The official CartoCSS stylesheets powering the standard OpenStreetMap.org map layer, rendered with Mapnik. It is a general-purpose, customi… | 75 | 1730 | active |
| kitesurfer1404/WS2812FX An Arduino/ESP8266/ESP32 library providing 55+ animation effects for WS2811/WS2812/NeoPixel LED strips, designed as a drop-in replacement f… | 75 | 1727 | stable |
| markmanx/isoflow Isoflow is an open-source React component for building interactive network and architecture diagrams with a drag-and-drop editor. It suppor… | 37 | 1727 | active |
| cclank/cell-architecture-studio An interactive 3D cell biology gallery built with React, TypeScript, Vite, and Three.js that renders selectable cell specimens with organel… | 53 | 1726 | active |
| saturday06/VRM-Addon-for-Blender A Blender add-on that adds VRM format import, export, and editing capabilities to Blender 2.93 through 5.2. It also provides a Python scrip… | 95 | 1723 | active |
| hihayk/scale Scale is a web-based generative color scale generator for creating consistent color ramps used in design systems and UI. It runs entirely i… | 32 | 1722 | stable |
| ghaerr/elks ELKS is an embeddable subset of the Linux operating system targeting 16-bit Intel IA16 processors (8086, 8088, 80186, 80286, NEC V20/V30). … | 92 | 1719 | active |
| fdivitto/FabGL FabGL is a C++ graphics and input library for the ESP32, providing display drivers for VGA, PAL/NTSC composite video, and I2C/SPI LCDs, plu… | 23 | 1719 | active |
| LingDong-/shan-shui-inf A browser-based application that procedurally generates infinitely-scrolling Chinese landscape paintings in SVG vector format. It uses Perl… | 32 | 6375 | maintenance |
| elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver A VA-API driver implementation that uses NVIDIA's NVDEC hardware decoder as its backend, written in C. It is primarily designed to enable h… | 89 | 1713 | active |
| Kitware/ParaView ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application built on the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), with a Qt-… | 77 | 1712 | stable |
| salgum1114/react-design-editor A React library providing a canvas-based design editor built on Fabric.js and Ant Design, supporting image editing, diagram composition, an… | 93 | 1709 | active |
| mooman219/fontdue Fontdue is a pure Rust, no_std TrueType and OpenType font rasterizer and layout library focused on minimal end-to-end latency. It is design… | 77 | 1709 | stable |
| alampros/react-confetti A React component that renders animated confetti on an HTML canvas element. It handles the animation lifecycle internally so developers get… | 59 | 1708 | stable |
| VitorVilela7/wide-snes A ROM hack of Super Mario World for the SNES that expands the game's horizontal resolution to support widescreen aspect ratios like 16:9, 1… | 23 | 1708 | active |
| WhitestormJS/whs.js WhitestormJS is a modular, component-driven 3D framework for web applications and games, built on top of Three.js. It provides an App/modul… | 23 | 6352 | maintenance |
| tengge1/ShadowEditor Shadow Editor is a cross-platform 3D scene editor built on three.js, Golang, and MongoDB, available as a web application and desktop app vi… | 57 | 1707 | active |
| GNOME/gtk GTK is a multi-platform GUI toolkit written in C for building graphical user interfaces, offering a complete set of widgets for projects fr… | 77 | 1704 | stable |