boxy VS pixels

Compare boxy vs pixels and see what are their differences.

boxy

2D GPU rendering with a tiling atlas. (by treeform)

pixels

Toy support library for primitive graphics programming. (by Araq)
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boxy pixels
4 1
101 10
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5.5 10.0
16 days ago almost 2 years ago
Nim Nim
MIT License MIT License
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boxy

Posts with mentions or reviews of boxy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-01.
  • Nim v2.0 Released
    49 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023
    Not by itself! But together with other library boxy you can: https://github.com/treeform/boxy

    You should use pixie to load textures, create text, rasterize vector graphic etc... and send them to boxy to be drawn every frame.

    Yes Pixie is CPU only, and just like you can't use Cairo or Skea for real time games you can't use Pixie, but boxy you totally can.

  • How can I add graphics to my nim program?
    10 projects | /r/nim | 4 Jun 2023
  • Simple Gamepad Support
    7 projects | /r/nim | 10 May 2023
    I made it because I really like pixie/boxy/windy combo, but there is no gamepad support built-in.
  • Is Fidget usable for implementation of 3D rendering?
    9 projects | /r/nim | 12 Nov 2022
    The author Fidget actually has a number of other great libraries that are part of the rendering stack. Notably, Pixie for text and shape rendering in 2D, Boxy for rendering textures to the GPU via opengl, and then Windy for an OS window context and user events, and a number of other libraries related to 3D rendering.

pixels

Posts with mentions or reviews of pixels. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing boxy and pixels you can also consider the following projects:

cpython - Alternative StdLib for Nim for Python targets, hijacks Python StdLib for Nim

nim-csfml - Nim bindings to SFML multimedia/game library

nim-gamepad - Cross-platform gamepad library for nim

windy - Windowing library for Nim using OS native APIs.

owlkettle - A declarative user interface framework based on GTK 4

nimgl - NimGL is a Nim library that offers bindings for popular libraries used in computer graphics

pixie - Full-featured 2d graphics library for Nim.

vulkan - Vulkan C bindings for Nim

shady - Nim to GPU shader language compiler and supporting utilities.

nuklearnim - Mirror of a thin Nim programming language for Nuklear GUI library