pixie VS canvas

Compare pixie vs canvas and see what are their differences.

pixie

Full-featured 2d graphics library for Nim. (by treeform)

canvas

Cairo in Go: vector to raster, SVG, PDF, EPS, WASM, OpenGL, Gio, etc. (by tdewolff)
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pixie canvas
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5.1 9.0
6 months ago 15 days ago
Nim Go
MIT License MIT License
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pixie

Posts with mentions or reviews of pixie. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-01.

canvas

Posts with mentions or reviews of canvas. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-29.
  • Canvas vector graphics update: rich text and path boolean operation support
    2 projects | /r/golang | 29 Dec 2022
    I wanted to share a recent large update to https://github.com/tdewolff/canvas, which is a vector graphics library written in Go to create images, PDFs, SVGs, OpenGL, etc. using vector drawing operations. Especially I wanted to show two new exciting features:
  • Pixie – A full-featured 2D graphics library for Nim
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2021
  • Processing equivalent in GoLang
    12 projects | /r/golang | 6 Aug 2021
    https://github.com/tdewolff/canvas/blob/master/examples/opengl/main.go can draw primitves but i think it would be a bit hard to do event based animation
  • tdewolff/canvas: vector graphics in Go (mayor update)
    8 projects | /r/golang | 22 Apr 2021
    canvas has a focus on using state-of-the-art algorithms regarding numerical approximations, see https://github.com/tdewolff/canvas#articles for a list of publications used in this library
    8 projects | /r/golang | 22 Apr 2021
    I see, you'd like to specify the exact output pixel size for the rasterizers? To be honest, the floats are being multiplied and rounded, so given a set of canvas dimensions in mm and a DPMM should be fine in your case. In any case, I've opened an issue to calculate the resulting DPMM automatically to get a certain pixel width and height: https://github.com/tdewolff/canvas/issues/78
    8 projects | /r/golang | 22 Apr 2021
    Yes! See https://github.com/tdewolff/canvas/tree/master/examples/gonum-plot for an example using gonum-plot. You should be able to plug-and-play to use the canvas library!
    8 projects | /r/golang | 22 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pixie and canvas you can also consider the following projects:

svgo - Go Language Library for SVG generation

gg - Go Graphics - 2D rendering in Go with a simple API.

tiny-skia - A tiny Skia subset ported to Rust

generative-art-in-go - A companion source code repository to the book "Generative Art in Go"

go-cairo - Go binding for the cairo graphics library

godot-nim - Nim bindings for Godot Engine

Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

bgracontrols - 🆗 BGRA Controls is a set of graphical UI elements that you can use with Lazarus LCL applications.

resize - Pure golang image resizing

imaginary - Fast, simple, scalable, Docker-ready HTTP microservice for high-level image processing

imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API