evanw/glfx.js

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

glfx.js is a JavaScript library for applying real-time image effects and photo adjustments in the browser using WebGL. It leverages the GPU to perform effects like blurs, warps, and color adjustments that would be too slow with plain JavaScript.

Use cases

• apply photo filters in the browser in real time
• adjust brightness, contrast, and hue of images client-side
• warp or bulge parts of an image interactively
• build a browser-based photo editor
• apply GPU-accelerated blur and sharpen effects to canvas images

When to choose

• you need real-time image effects in the browser
• you want GPU-accelerated filters without writing WebGL shaders yourself
• you are building a client-side photo editing tool

When to avoid

• you need to process images on a server or in Node.js
• you must support very old browsers without WebGL
• you need to edit images from other domains due to same-origin policy restrictions
• you need a maintained library with active development

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

image-processing graphics image-processing web-development graphics browser webgl photo-effects realtime gpu-accelerated image-filters javascript

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