Getting started with graphics programming on a mac?

• OpenFrameworks

  43 9,775 9.3 C++

  openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.

  

- If you're having trouble getting OpenGL stuff to compile, while I have not checked on Monterey, things like openFrameworks and Cinder still compile fine on Mac last I looked. Granted you're still limited to certain OpenGL versions but that's at least something to try to get started.

• Cinder

  26 5,241 5.9 C++

  Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.

- If you're having trouble getting OpenGL stuff to compile, while I have not checked on Monterey, things like openFrameworks and Cinder still compile fine on Mac last I looked. Granted you're still limited to certain OpenGL versions but that's at least something to try to get started.

• InfluxDB

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• wgpu

  194 10,846 9.9 Rust

  Cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics api.

  

That said as it's almost ready for use on all platforms, I might take this chance to learn the WebGPU api instead; while the web is a main focus, there is also concurrent development going on for desktop with Dawn and wgpu. The disadvantage I would say is that you'll have to learn a new shader language but honestly, it's just a really verbose, if you're comfortable with C/C++ you should get used to it fairly quickly.

• three.js

  449 98,752 9.9 JavaScript

  JavaScript 3D Library.

You can use Three.js to easily do 3D stuff at a reasonably low level.

• LearnOpenGL

  624 10,213 3.7 C++

  Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com

I done like 80% of the tutorials on https://learnopengl.com/ and haven't had any issues on Mac.

• Metal-API-Minimal-Example

  2 6 1.8 Swift

• metal-cpp

  16 249 3.3 C++

  Metal-cpp is a low-overhead C++ interface for Metal that helps developers add Metal functionality to graphics apps, games, and game engines that are written in C++.

• WorkOS

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