# benvanik/WebGL-Inspector

An advanced WebGL debugging toolkit

Repository: https://github.com/benvanik/WebGL-Inspector
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/webgl-inspector
Homepage: http://benvanik.github.com/WebGL-Inspector/
Language: JavaScript
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-03-02T04:47:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5793, "days_push": 1280, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1107, forks 168 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:36.679480+00:00)

## What it is
WebGL Inspector is an advanced debugging toolkit for WebGL applications, inspired by tools like gDEBugger and PIX. It can be embedded in an app with a single script tag or used as a browser extension, capturing and stepping through entire frames of GL activity.

## Use cases
- debug webgl rendering issues in the browser
- capture and step through webgl frames call by call
- inspect webgl textures buffers and shader programs
- find redundant webgl api calls hurting performance
- see which draw calls contributed to a pixel
- profile and tune webgl application performance

## When to choose
- you are developing or debugging a WebGL application and need frame-level introspection
- you want pixel history and GL state inspection without modifying your host page
- you need a Firebug-style developer tool for WebGL

## When to avoid
- you are debugging WebGL2 or WebGPU features beyond this tool's original WebGL 1 scope
- you need actively maintained tooling - the project sees only occasional releases
- you need GPU-side profiling rather than API call-level debugging

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: developer-tools, graphics
- domain: web-development, graphics, developer-tools
- platform: browser
- tags: webgl, graphics-debugging, browser-extension, frame-capture, gpu-debugging, debugging, javascript

## Member repositories
- benvanik/WebGL-Inspector (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:36.679480+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:44:01.287826+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/benvanik/WebGL-Inspector (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:36.679480+00:00, sha a2aaa7eab5af)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.