Top 5 hlsl-shader Open-Source Projects

SHADERed

24 4,188 0.0 C++

Lightweight, cross-platform & full-featured shader IDE

Project mention: Confused in terms of where to start with framework/technology etc. Need help picking between learning ShaderToy v/s OpenGL v/s WebGL | /r/GraphicsProgramming | 2023-06-20

If you specifically want to learn shader programming then https://shadered.org/ is a lot more practical than Shadertoy.

ComputeSharp

38 2,537 9.8 C#

A .NET library to run C# code in parallel on the GPU through DX12, D2D1, and dynamically generated HLSL compute and pixel shaders, with the goal of making GPU computing easy to use for all .NET developers! 🚀

Project mention: ILGPU VS ComputeSharp - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/ILGPU | 2023-10-27

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

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.
lygia

2 2,224 9.4 GLSL

LYGIA, it's a granular and multi-language (GLSL, HLSL, WGSL, MSL and CUDA) shader library designed for performance and flexibility
windows-terminal-shaders

3 472 0.0 HLSL

A small collection of terminal shaders

Project mention: Cool Retro Terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-20

Yea the extent to which you can make custom terminal shaders for the Windows Terminal is pretty unbelievable. This repo has a huge collection of crazy stuff (including a better CRT one):
https://github.com/Hammster/windows-terminal-shaders

ShaderPiPFX

1 9 0.0 C++

HLSL live player. Compile and play your HLSL shader automatically.
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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).