Projects sharing features with Orillusion

This project is a cross-platform graphics and compute framework that provides a unified, hardware-agnostic abstraction layer for rendering and parallel processing. It enables developers to build high-performance applications that execute consistently across diverse operating systems and hardware backends, including Vulkan, Metal, and DirectX. By mapping high-level graphics commands to native APIs, it serves as a portable foundation for both real-time 3D rendering and general-purpose GPU computing. The framework distinguishes itself through a robust architecture that supports both native deskt

Ogre is a high-level 3D rendering engine designed for creating games, simulations, and visualizations without requiring low-level graphics API code. It functions as a framework for real-time 3D graphics processing, providing a physically based renderer to simulate lifelike surfaces and lighting. The engine includes specialized systems for skeletal animation to control character movement and a terrain generation system for producing large textured landscapes. These features are supported by automatic levels of detail and distance-based mesh management to maintain performance. The project cove

OpenMoonray is a production-grade physically based rendering system and path-tracing engine. It simulates the physical behavior of light to generate high-fidelity photorealistic images and is compatible with Universal Scene Description files for visualizing complex 3D scenes and production pipelines. The system is designed as a distributed rendering framework, capable of splitting heavy computational workloads across multiple machines or cloud clusters to accelerate image generation. It integrates OpenColorIO for consistent color management across different display devices and color spaces.

This project is a physically based rendering system and ray tracing engine designed to generate photorealistic images. It operates as a spectral rendering system that records radiance across discretized wavelength buckets and functions as a volumetric path tracer to compute light scattering and absorption within participating media. The engine utilizes GPU acceleration to execute its rendering pipeline on parallel graphics hardware. It integrates real-world optical data, such as measured spectral power distributions and lens description files, to simulate the behavior of physical camera syste

LibGDX is a Java-based framework designed for cross-platform game development, enabling the creation and deployment of 2D and 3D games across desktop, mobile, and web environments from a single codebase. It functions as a comprehensive library that abstracts hardware-accelerated graphics, audio, input, and file system access, providing a unified interface for developers to manage game logic and application lifecycles. The framework distinguishes itself through a high-performance architecture that prioritizes efficiency and native interoperability. It utilizes a batch-oriented graphics pipelin

webgl-fundamentals is a comprehensive educational resource and graphics tutorial for learning hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D rendering using the WebGL API. It serves as a structured 3D graphics curriculum and GPU programming reference, guiding users through the graphics pipeline from basic geometry to advanced rendering techniques. The project provides detailed guides on GLSL shader development, including the creation of vertex and fragment shaders. It specifically focuses on the implementation of real-time lighting models—such as directional, point, and spot lighting—and the application of s

This project serves as a comprehensive educational framework and reference library for mastering high-performance graphics programming and parallel compute resource management. It provides a collection of practical implementations designed to demonstrate the explicit control required by the Vulkan API, covering the fundamental mechanics of modern graphics pipelines and cross-platform hardware interaction. The repository distinguishes itself by focusing on the low-level architectural requirements of modern GPU development, including manual memory allocation, multi-threaded command recording, a

This project provides a comprehensive toolset for WebGPU, serving as a graphics API wrapper, compute shader framework, resource manager, and shader toolchain. It enables browser-based GPU acceleration by offloading memory-intensive tasks and data processing from the CPU to the GPU. The framework manages the full lifecycle of GPU operations, from requesting physical hardware adapters and initializing logical devices to configuring programmable render and compute pipelines. It specifically supports the coordination of parallel workgroups and collective subgroup operations for general-purpose co

Renderer is a low-level software graphics engine implemented in standard C for educational and experimental real-time computer graphics. It functions as a CPU rasterizer that computes vertex transformations, clipping, texturing, and lighting entirely through software computation without requiring hardware acceleration. The software includes a geometry pipeline supporting depth and alpha testing, geometry clipping and culling, and perspective-correct attribute interpolation. Its lighting and shading subsystem provides advanced physical simulation including metallic-roughness and specular-gloss

LumixEngine is a high-performance C++ 3D game engine designed for building interactive 3D applications. It is built on a data-oriented component system that organizes objects in contiguous memory blocks to maximize CPU cache performance. The engine features a dynamic binary plugin architecture for loading external modules at runtime and an embedded scripting virtual machine that exposes internal logic for external control without recompilation. Computational workloads are managed via a task-based parallel execution model that distributes jobs across multiple processor cores. The framework in

A-Frame is a declarative 3D scene engine and WebXR framework used to build virtual and augmented reality experiences directly in the web browser. It utilizes an entity component system where generic objects are assigned behaviors through attachable components and lifecycle hooks. The framework allows the assembly of immersive environments using HTML-like markup to define geometries, lighting, and materials. It implements WebXR standards to ensure consistent playback across different hardware and browsers, including support for VR headsets, desktops, and mobile devices. The system covers a br

This library is a web-based framework designed for general-purpose parallel processing and high-performance computation on graphics hardware. It provides a toolkit for executing complex mathematical operations, physics simulations, and procedural visualizations directly within the browser by leveraging the graphics processor for data-intensive tasks. The framework distinguishes itself through automated shader management, which ensures consistent execution across diverse hardware and browser environments. It achieves this by transpiling modern shader syntax into legacy versions and automatical

Sokol is a C hardware abstraction layer and cross-platform graphics library designed for managing windowing, input, and audio across different operating systems. It functions as a GPU resource manager and multimedia application framework, providing a unified API for rendering 2D and 3D graphics across WebGL, Metal, Direct3D, and OpenGL. The project is distinguished by its single-header implementation, which simplifies integration and portability. It utilizes a stateless render pass definition and a one-update-per-frame model to synchronize CPU data to GPU memory and manage resource lifecycles

This project is an educational platform and technical reference for learning real-time graphics programming through the development of custom shaders. It provides a comprehensive guide to the programmable graphics pipeline, offering a collection of tutorials and interactive examples that demonstrate how to manipulate coordinate spaces, manage buffer data, and implement complex rendering techniques in 3D environments. The repository distinguishes itself as a versatile toolkit for both photorealistic and non-photorealistic rendering. It includes modular implementations for stylized aesthetics s

Trois is a declarative 3D scene manager and a Three.js component library for Vue 3. It acts as a reactive wrapper that maps Three.js scene graphs and materials to a Vue component tree, allowing for the creation of web-based 3D renderers using HTML-like templates. The project synchronizes a reactive component tree with a 3D scene graph through proxy-based state binding and reactive property mapping. It features a component-based scene graph that manages spatial transformations and object lifetimes, integrating a requestAnimationFrame loop with component lifecycle events. The library covers a

Cocos2d-x is a high-performance C++ game development framework designed for building and deploying interactive applications across mobile, desktop, and web platforms. It functions as a cross-platform game engine that utilizes an entity-component system to manage object lifecycles, behaviors, and spatial relationships within a unified codebase. The engine is distinguished by its specialized 2D graphics rendering pipeline, which is optimized for hardware-accelerated performance when displaying sprites, particle effects, and skeletal animations. It provides developers with low-level access to gr

This project is a browser-based, physically based path-tracing renderer built on WebGL and integrated with Three.js. It functions as a real-time global illumination engine, calculating light bouncing, soft shadows, reflections, refractions, and color bleeding interactively within web environments. The rendering system incorporates progressive multi-pass accumulation to refine noisy images iteratively over multiple frames, alongside GPU-accelerated spatial acceleration structures and bounding volume hierarchies to handle complex geometry. It supports diverse material types such as refractive

Space Station 14 is a C# multiplayer game and roleplay simulation framework. It is built upon an Entity-Component-System (ECS) game engine that separates logic into systems and data into components to manage complex entity interactions. The project functions as a grid-based physics simulator with a YAML data-driven prototype system for defining game objects. The project features a specialized 2D sprite rendering engine that maps server-side appearance data to client-side shaders. It implements a networking model with client-side prediction and dirty-flagged state synchronization to reduce inp

Mitsuba is a physically based rendering engine that calculates realistic light interactions to produce accurate synthetic images using both biased and unbiased numerical integration techniques. It is designed for computer graphics research and supports interactive three-dimensional scene inspection through a graphical interface that provides progressive real-time previewing, refining images iteratively when movement stops. The system features a plugin-based architecture that dynamically loads modular components at runtime to incorporate custom materials, light sources, and complete rendering

Evolve is an evolution-based organism designer and GPU-accelerated artificial life simulator that combines interactive particle physics with a real-time simulation editor. At its core, it runs genetic algorithm evolution on self-replicating graph structures to evolve digital organisms, offloading particle physics, neural networks, and rendering entirely to the GPU through a compute shader pipeline for real-time performance. The project distinguishes itself with graph-based organism design that uses a directed graph editor to visually define organism structure, connections, and neural controll

gpu.cpp is a lightweight C++ library for executing low-level general-purpose GPU computation across different hardware vendors and operating systems. It functions as a portable GPU wrapper, kernel orchestrator, and tensor management system using the WebGPU specification to abstract device initialization, buffer transfers, and compute shader dispatching. The library provides a framework for defining compute kernels from shader code and managing their asynchronous dispatch and synchronization. It enables the execution of cross-platform compute shaders and the orchestration of GPU tasks through

Hazel is a C++ game development framework and 3D graphics rendering engine designed for building high-performance interactive software. It provides a foundational architecture that enables the construction of desktop applications through native hardware acceleration. The project includes a dedicated game engine editor that allows for the design and testing of interactive 3D and 2D scenes within a unified environment. This editor utilizes an immediate mode interface to maintain synchronization with the engine state, while a hardware-agnostic abstraction layer handles rendering commands across

Babylon.js is a JavaScript game engine and real-time graphics renderer designed for creating interactive three-dimensional visuals and applications. It functions as a web-based 3D framework and WebGL engine that enables the deployment of high-performance 3D content across various web platforms and devices. The project provides tools for web-based 3D game development, real-time graphics rendering, and the creation of browser-based interactive visualizations. It also supports the development of WebXR virtual and augmented reality experiences using standard web technologies. The framework cover

DirectXTK is a C++ library designed to simplify 2D and 3D graphics, audio, and input programming for DirectX applications. It serves as a comprehensive toolkit providing high-level wrappers for DirectX graphics, audio management, and input handling. The toolkit includes a graphics wrapper for loading textures and rendering 3D models and 2D sprites, alongside a dedicated audio manager for sound effects and 3D spatial audio. It also provides an input handler to track and process state updates from keyboards, mice, and gamepads. The library covers a broad capability surface including 3D math an

This project is a reference library of HLSL shader implementations and source code examples for Unity. It provides a collection of practical samples focused on lighting, coordinate transformations, and rendering passes for 3D graphics. The repository demonstrates the application of 3D rendering mathematics, specifically using vector and matrix calculations to determine light directions and coordinate space transformations. It includes implementations for managing multi-pass rendering pipelines and mapping coordinates between object, world, and view spaces. The material covers foundational gr

Murder is an entity component system game engine designed for 2D game development. It provides a core framework for managing game objects through an ECS architecture and includes a dedicated 2D game editor for asset management and real-time property configuration. The engine features a specialized 2D rendering pipeline supporting pixel art, sprite slicing, and parallax effects. It includes a hierarchical A* pathfinding system for agent navigation and a comprehensive asset management system for serializing and loading game resources. The project covers a broad range of capabilities, including