OpenGL is the premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications. Since its introduction in 1992, OpenGL has become the industry's most widely used and supported 2D and 3D graphics application programming interface (API), bringing...
- Graphics Library
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- BSD
- Haiku
Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms.
- Graphics Library
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Chrome OS
- Tizen OS
- SteamOS
DirectX is a set of components in Windows that allows software, primarily and especially games, to work directly with your video and audio hardware.
- Graphics Library
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2.0, exposed through the HTML5 Canvas element as Document Object Model interfaces. Developers familiar with OpenGL ES 2.
- Graphics Library
- Free • Open Source
- Online
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the...
- Graphics Library
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Windows Mobile
- iPhone
- Symbian S60
- BSD
- iPad
- Haiku
Mesa is a software library for 3D computer graphics that provides a generic Khronos-compliant OpenGL implementation for rendering three-dimensional graphics on multiple platforms.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
PromoRepublic is a social media marketing solution with content distribution workflows for small businesses, agencies, franchise and multi-location brands.
- Social Media Management Tool
- Paid • Proprietary
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
+1Allegro 4 and Allegro 5 are cross-platform, libraries mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. They handle common, low-level tasks such as creating windows, accepting user input, loading data, drawing images, playing sounds, etc.
- Game Development Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- iPhone
Chafa is a command-line utility that converts image data, including animated GIFs, into graphics formats or ANSI/Unicode character art suitable for display in a terminal. It has broad feature support, allowing it to be used on devices ranging from historical teleprinters to...
- Image Viewer
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
+1Free open-source JavaScript library for easily drawing HTML5 graphics and animation. It is lightweight and more powerful in terms of out-of-the-box features than the existing SVG/VML based components including Raphaël and Bonsai.
- Vector Graphic App
- Free • Open Source
- Self-Hosted
- JavaScript
+6OpenGL is a great environment for developing portable, platform independent, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications. The API implementation in Python is cumbersome, resulting in applications with high latency.
- Graphics Library
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+4Metal provides near-direct access to the graphics processing unit (GPU), enabling you to maximize the graphics and compute potential of your apps on iOS, macOS, and tvOS. Building on an approachable, low-overhead architecture with precompiled GPU shaders, fine-grained resource...
- Graphics Library
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
wxSVG is C++ library to create, manipulate and render SVG files.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Imlib2 is a graphics library for fast file loading, saving, rendering and manipulation.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux