xelatihy/yocto-gl

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

Yocto/GL is a collection of small C++17 libraries for building physically-based graphics algorithms, written in a data-oriented style and released under the MIT license. It provides building blocks for math, color, geometry, noise, sampling, shading, images, shapes, scenes, BVH ray tracing, path tracing, and file I/O for formats like Ply, Obj, Stl, Pbrt, and glTF.

Use cases

• build a physically-based path tracer in C++
• parse and write Obj, Ply, Stl, Pbrt, and glTF scene files
• compute ray-primitive intersections with a bounding volume hierarchy
• manipulate triangle and quad meshes with subdivision and normals
• apply tone mapping and color grading to images
• generate procedural shapes and images
• sample Monte Carlo directions and evaluate BSDF lobes
• view and convert 3D scenes interactively

When to choose

• you need small, composable C++ libraries for rendering research or education
• you want a clean data-oriented codebase to study or extend for path tracing
• you need lightweight mesh, image, and scene I/O without heavy dependencies
• you prefer permissive MIT-licensed graphics code you can embed in your own tools

When to avoid

• you need a full-featured production renderer with a GUI and material ecosystem
• you require GPU-accelerated real-time rendering out of the box
• you want a game engine with animation, physics, or audio
• you need long-term vendor support or a formal license file in the repo

Facets

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graphics image-processing parser serialization cli concurrency graphics computer-vision developer-tools cross-platform cpp cross-platform cli path-tracing physically-based-rendering gltf obj-ply-stl bvh ray-intersection tone-mapping subdivision-surfaces monte-carlo scene-io c++17 header-only-style data-oriented-design game-development

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