Top 4 C++ software-rendering Projects

tinyrenderer

8 19,267 0.0 C++

A brief computer graphics / rendering course

Project mention: From scratch OpenGL and shaders with raw Xlib | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-30

I don’t think that exists (I sure would like for it to), but until it does you could amuse yourself with:
- A 500-line (non-OpenGL-compatible) 3D rasterizer: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki.
- A “hello Wayland” app written in C without libwayland or anything else: https://gaultier.github.io/blog/wayland_from_scratch.html.
- A “hello X11” app written in x86-64 assembly(!) without libX11, libxcb, or anything else: https://gaultier.github.io/blog/x11_x64.html.
SoftGLRender

0 913 5.7 C++

Tiny C++ Software Renderer / Rasterizer, and implements OpenGL and Vulkan renderers for comparison
WorkOS

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SoftwareRenderer

0 583 0.0 C++

Software rendering engine with PBR. Built from scratch on C++.
nGL

0 28 4.7 C++

3D graphics lib for Ndless (and possibly other systems) (by Vogtinator)

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). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-30.