Good 3D Library for M1 (arm64) mac?

• ModernGL

  9 4 6.7 C++

  Minimal Modern OpenGL Demos (Version 4.x). (by NCCA)

  

Creating the context you have a few options, SDL2, GLFW Qt or native mac. I wrote a series of demos to draw a basic triangle https://github.com/NCCA/ModernGL Each one uses a different tool / library. It uses cmake and vcpkg to install all the libs you need etc.

• NGL

  13 89 7.9 C++

  The NCCA Graphics Library

  

For a more complex set of examples and library this is what I use for teaching 3D graphics. It works on Mac, Windows and Linux but takes some time to setup and install as uses Qt / SDL as the main OpenGL context creation. https://github.com/NCCA/NGL

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• GLFW-CMake-starter

  1 135 4.0 CMake

  Use CMake to create a project with GLFW - Multi-platform Windows, Linux and MacOS.

For a quick start cmake project we made this starter: https://github.com/juliettef/GLFW-CMake-starter

• MoltenVK

  103 4,548 9.0 Objective-C++

  MoltenVK is a Vulkan Portability implementation. It layers a subset of the high-performance, industry-standard Vulkan graphics and compute API over Apple's Metal graphics framework, enabling Vulkan applications to run on macOS, iOS and tvOS.

  

basically yes. There is some vulkan with https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK but this is a vulkan wrapper around metal. Metal is optimised for their new hardware (and works really well), but is a pain when you want to support cross platform, but this is how things are now developing across everything.

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