parasyte/pixels

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2131 stars · 148 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

pixels is a tiny Rust library providing a hardware-accelerated 2D pixel frame buffer built on wgpu. It is designed for prototyping pixel-based games, animations, software renderers, and emulators, with support for custom shaders and pixel-perfect scaling.

Use cases

• render a 2D pixel buffer to a window in Rust
• prototype a simple 2D game with pixel graphics
• build an emulator display with pixel-perfect scaling
• apply CRT or custom shaders to pixel art animations
• write a software renderer and display its output on GPU

When to choose

• you want a minimal GPU-accelerated framebuffer without a full game framework
• you need pixel-perfect scaling and custom shader effects in Rust
• you are building an emulator or pixel-art tool and want to manage your own window/event loop

When to avoid

• you need a full game engine with input, audio, and scene management built in
• you need 3D rendering rather than 2D pixel buffers
• you require DirectX 11, WebGL2, or WebGPU support, which are still works in progress

Facets

library · maturity active

graphics game-engine graphics cross-platform windows wasm rust pixel-buffer wgpu shaders emulators 2d-graphics framebuffer game-development linux macos

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