OpenTK VS Helix Toolkit

Compare OpenTK vs Helix Toolkit and see what are their differences.

OpenTK

The Open Toolkit library is a fast, low-level C# wrapper for OpenGL, OpenAL & OpenCL. It also includes windowing, mouse, keyboard and joystick input and a robust and fast math library, giving you everything you need to write your own renderer or game engine. OpenTK can be used standalone or inside a GUI on Windows, Linux, Mac. (by opentk)
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OpenTK Helix Toolkit
20 1
3,088 1,769
1.8% 2.5%
8.5 7.7
5 days ago 15 days ago
C# C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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OpenTK

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenTK. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-23.

Helix Toolkit

Posts with mentions or reviews of Helix Toolkit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Will WPF and Unity fit togehter?
    1 project | /r/csharp | 20 Mar 2022
    About ditching WPF and using Unity: it should be possible without any problems, maybe outside of the license but that of course depends on the use case. You could also probably use helix, it's whole thing is supporting 3D in WPF.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenTK and Helix Toolkit you can also consider the following projects:

Silk.NET - The high-speed OpenGL, OpenCL, OpenAL, OpenXR, GLFW, SDL, Vulkan, Assimp, WebGPU, and DirectX bindings library your mother warned you about.

Veldrid - A low-level, portable graphics library for .NET.

Oxyplot - A cross-platform plotting library for .NET

LiveCharts2 - Simple, flexible, interactive & powerful charts, maps, and gauges for .Net, LiveCharts2 can now practically run everywhere WPF, WinForms, Xamarin, Avalonia, WinUI, UWP.

NGraphics - NGraphics is a cross platform library for rendering vector graphics on .NET. It provides a unified API for both immediate and retained mode graphics using high quality native renderers.

AssimpNet

LWJGL - LWJGL is a Java library that enables cross-platform access to popular native APIs useful in the development of graphics (OpenGL, Vulkan, bgfx), audio (OpenAL, Opus), parallel computing (OpenCL, CUDA) and XR (OpenVR, LibOVR, OpenXR) applications.

SciChart - Highest rated & Fastest WPF Charts, used by F1, NASA and more