tsoding/olive.c

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2444 stars · 134 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Olive.c is a dependency-free, stb-style single-header 2D graphics library for C that renders pixel by pixel into a memory buffer. It provides drawing primitives like shapes, text, and textures, leaving display of the resulting pixels up to the user.

Use cases

• render 2D graphics in C without dependencies
• draw shapes and text into a pixel buffer
• generate images programmatically in C
• software-render 3D models on CPU
• embed simple graphics rendering in a C project via copy-paste header

When to choose

• you need a tiny, zero-dependency graphics library you can copy-paste into a C project
• you want CPU-based software rendering without GPU APIs like OpenGL
• you prefer stb-style single-header libraries

When to avoid

• you need GPU-accelerated rendering or high-performance graphics
• you need the library to handle windowing or displaying images
• you require a stable API - the library is a work in progress and can change at any time

Facets

library · maturity experimental

graphics image-processing graphics cross-platform cpp c cross-platform wasm single-header stb-style software-rendering pixel-rendering no-dependencies 2d-graphics 3d-rendering game-development

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