nical/lyon

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2593 stars · 155 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Lyon is a Rust library for 2D graphics rendering on the GPU via path tessellation. It converts complex SVG-compliant vector paths into triangle geometry that can be consumed by graphics APIs like OpenGL, Vulkan, or D3D.

Use cases

• tessellate SVG paths into triangles for GPU rendering
• render 2D vector graphics in a game engine
• convert bezier paths to vertex buffers for OpenGL or Vulkan
• fill and stroke complex 2D shapes in Rust
• build a custom 2D rendering engine on the GPU
• generate triangle geometry from vector paths for Servo-like browsers

When to choose

• you need GPU-accelerated 2D vector rendering in Rust
• you want to turn paths into triangles for your own rendering pipeline
• you need SVG-compliant path fill and stroke tessellation

When to avoid

• you need a complete SVG file renderer rather than path primitives
• you want CPU-side rasterization of 2D graphics
• you need a full GUI or drawing application out of the box

Facets

library · maturity stable

graphics image-processing graphics web-development rust cross-platform tessellation 2d-graphics vector-graphics svg-paths gpu-rendering game-development gpu

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