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Top 23 C++ Graphic Projects
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InfluxDB
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Project mention: Tiny renderer or how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-13
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3d-game-shaders-for-beginners
🎮 A step-by-step guide to implementing SSAO, depth of field, lighting, normal mapping, and more for your 3D game.
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filament
Filament is a real-time physically based rendering engine for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, and WebGL2 (by google)
Filament - A modern, efficient graphics engine suitable for real-time rendering, link: http://google.github.io/filament.
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bgfx
Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
Project mention: Bgfx: Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic rendering library | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-08 -
DearPyGui
Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies
Project mention: Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with Built-In Realtime Visualizations | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-18Looks beautiful so congratulation for the launch.
Not sure if today this is enough though without any kind of AI chat assistant. Trae [0] is based on VSCode and Jetbrains Fleet are good looking as well. Visualization is definitely a big plus but there is also alternative like using rerun [1] and dearpygui [2] or some VSCode plugins (Python Image Preview, AREPL for Python)- might be hard to compete with those free alternatives on a subscription model IMHO but good luck!
[0] https://trae.ai/
[1] https://www.rerun.io/
[2] https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui
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You see, for the past several years I have used many programming languages and many more game frameworks and libraries. Programming languages like Java, C#, C++, and even, sadly, JavaScript (I know...). Game frameworks like LWJGL, SDL2, Raylib, MonoGame, SFML, and many more. Essentially, I have seen it all. Out of all of them, I think SDL2 was closer to what I was looking for, though, Raylib was the one I used the most at the beginning. And the reason I liked SDL more was because it was more"lower-level" than Raylib or SFML. Additionally, it had that C-style of programming that I have always been fond of. However, despite that, I decided to go against any of these libraries.
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CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.
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OpenFrameworks
openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.
Project mention: Ask HN: Who Are Your Favorite Photography and Generative Coding Artists? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-26 -
Project mention: Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-13
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C++ Graphics discussion
C++ Graphics related posts
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3D Game Shaders for Beginners
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Aseprite: Revolutionizing Pixel Art and Animation
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Tiny renderer or how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code
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Show HN: VSC – An open source 3D Rendering Engine in C++
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Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows
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Bgfx: Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic rendering library
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C++ exception performance three years later
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
influxdata.com | 24 Apr 2025
Index
What are some of the best open-source Graphic projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | aseprite | 31,739 |
| 2 | tinyrenderer | 21,690 |
| 3 | 3d-game-shaders-for-beginners | 18,498 |
| 4 | filament | 18,350 |
| 5 | bgfx | 15,621 |
| 6 | DearPyGui | 14,056 |
| 7 | SFML | 10,836 |
| 8 | OpenFrameworks | 10,127 |
| 9 | Skia | 9,702 |
| 10 | renderdoc | 9,540 |
| 11 | LibreSprite | 5,716 |
| 12 | tinyraytracer | 5,147 |
| 13 | magnum | 4,944 |
| 14 | glslViewer | 4,923 |
| 15 | Vulkan-Samples | 4,631 |
| 16 | matplotplusplus | 4,530 |
| 17 | Ogre 3D | 4,200 |
| 18 | F3D | 3,378 |
| 19 | OpenSceneGraph | 3,361 |
| 20 | Open-Source Vulkan C++ API | 3,306 |
| 21 | OpenSubdiv | 2,958 |
| 22 | OpenVDB | 2,901 |
| 23 | yocto-gl | 2,854 |
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