Projects sharing features with Microsoft 3D Movie Maker

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

Aseprite is a specialized graphics editor and animation suite designed for the creation of pixel-based artwork. It provides a comprehensive environment for managing multi-layered animation sequences, offering tools for frame-by-frame design, onion skinning, and real-time motion previews. The application is built to handle both indexed color palettes and full-color RGB editing, allowing users to maintain precise control over pixel data and transparency. What distinguishes Aseprite is its focus on programmable workflows and game asset production. It features a scriptable command architecture th

Gaussian Splatting is a computational framework designed to transform sparse sets of two-dimensional photographs into photorealistic, interactive three-dimensional scene representations. The system functions as a reconstruction tool and rendering engine, enabling the conversion of image data into volumetric models that support novel view synthesis. The project represents scenes as a collection of anisotropic three-dimensional Gaussians, which store position, opacity, color, and covariance data. It distinguishes itself through a differentiable tile-based rasterization process that projects the

This project is a digital library and archive of vintage Chinese language DOS games. It provides a curated collection of historical software preserved for access through a web-based emulation platform and a searchable game catalog. The system utilizes a decentralized repository to host and share game data files across a peer-to-peer network. This ensures assets are retrieved using content-addressable hashes rather than relying on central servers. Users can execute games directly in a web browser via a DOS emulation engine or use provided scripts to download and configure game archives for lo

Panda3D is a cross-platform game engine and 3D graphics rendering system developed for Python and C++. It functions as a comprehensive framework for building interactive 3D applications, providing a real-time physics simulator and a specialized 3D asset pipeline tool. The engine distinguishes itself by combining a high-performance C++ core with interoperable Python language bindings. It utilizes a scene graph architecture to organize 3D objects and provides a pipeline-based asset conversion system to optimize models and textures for runtime loading. Its capability surface includes low-level

Open Design is an AI design orchestration platform and LLM agent workspace designed for generating prototypes, presentations, and motion graphics. It functions as a local-first environment that integrates various command-line AI agents and coding tools into a unified design workflow, allowing users to migrate design specifications into brand-compliant source code. The project is distinguished by its ability to enforce visual consistency through a design system manager that defines brand contracts and tokens using Markdown. It features a specialized motion graphics generator that converts HTML

VirtualWife is a framework for creating interactive 3D digital companions powered by large language models. It integrates a browser-based rendering engine that synchronizes 3D model animations and facial expressions with AI-generated dialogue in real time, supported by a voice interaction system that converts text into synthesized speech. The system features a persona manager for defining role-play prompts, visual identities, and long-term conversational memory. It also includes a bridge for live streaming integration, allowing an AI avatar to interact with live audiences by monitoring commen

The Windows App SDK is a set of APIs and UI frameworks for building native Windows desktop applications. It provides a Windows Runtime API for accessing system capabilities and a dedicated UI framework for creating responsive, accessible interfaces. The project also functions as a desktop app deployment framework and a local AI execution environment for running hardware-accelerated models on CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs. The SDK distinguishes itself by enabling the modernization of legacy applications, allowing developers to embed modern controls and platform features into existing projects without a

FlaxEngine is a cross-platform game engine and development kit designed for creating high-fidelity 2D and 3D games. It functions as a programmable framework that supports the use of C# and C++ for building interactive experiences. The project includes a high-speed graphics rendering engine capable of producing professional visual assets and detailed three-dimensional scenes. It provides a pipeline for compiling and exporting project files across various operating systems using native software development kits and toolchains.

Dusklight is a suite of specialized toolkits designed for legacy game porting and engine reimplementation. It provides a framework for recreating legacy game environments through reverse engineering to ensure behavioral accuracy and stability on modern hardware. The project features a cross-platform graphics renderer that uses modern graphics APIs to display 2D and 3D content across different operating systems. It includes an application configuration toolkit that allows for the modification of software appearance and behavior through custom theming and experience customization. The system i

Gameplay is a high-performance C++ game engine and cross-platform framework designed for developing 2D and 3D interactive games. It functions as both a 3D graphics engine for rendering environments and a 2D game development kit for creating sprite-based mechanics. The framework provides a cross-platform abstraction layer to ensure that game logic and graphics run across various hardware and software platforms using a shared codebase. The engine implements a hardware-accelerated rendering pipeline and component-based game logic to separate data from behavior. It utilizes a native C++ impleme

WickedEngine is a C++ 3D game engine and framework designed for building high-fidelity three-dimensional applications and graphics projects. It features a modern graphics renderer that implements current standards to produce complex geometry and lighting across different hardware. The engine includes a standalone visual scene editor for designing environments and configuring properties without writing code. It also provides an integrated Lua scripting environment to manage runtime logic and automate engine tasks. The framework covers 3D graphics rendering and application development, includi

touchHLE is a high-level emulator designed to run legacy iPhone OS applications and games on modern desktop and mobile operating systems. It functions by simulating the original hardware environment and operating system API calls rather than emulating underlying CPU instructions. The project focuses on the preservation of early third-party mobile software through legacy archiving. It distinguishes itself by translating modern mouse, keyboard, and controller inputs into simulated touch gestures and accelerometer data, and by connecting multiple emulator instances over a local network to enable

UnleashedRecomp is a legacy software modernization project that uses static binary recompilation to enable native execution on Windows and Linux. Its primary purpose is to remove the need for emulation while updating old applications to support modern hardware and high-resolution displays. The project implements a game modding infrastructure that allows for the loading of external assets and custom software tweaks using standardized modification formats. It also includes an achievement tracking system that mirrors original platform notifications and a dedicated menu for monitoring progress.

NonEuclidean is a graphics framework and rendering engine designed to compute and display three-dimensional scenes using non-standard spatial rules and geometries. It serves as a visualization tool for exploring complex mathematical spaces where traditional Euclidean laws of distance and angle do not apply. The project implements custom rendering pipelines to visualize non-standard geometric projections and warped spatial logic. This includes the ability to map non-Euclidean coordinates to Poincaré disk or Klein models to render curved space on flat screens. The system utilizes dynamic metri

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

Stride is a C# game engine and 3D rendering engine used for building three-dimensional games and virtual reality applications. It functions as a comprehensive framework and development kit for creating immersive experiences within a managed code environment. The project includes a developer GUI framework for building internal debugging tools and utility panels. It also serves as a 3D physics simulator for calculating rigid body dynamics and collision detection within a scene. The engine covers environmental scene rendering and project scaffolding workflows. It provides tooling for game devel

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

This project is a version-controlled Git archive and software archaeology dataset containing the continuous evolution of Unix source code from 1970 to the present. It serves as a chronological record of system history, synthesizing a versioned code timeline from disparate historical snapshots. The archive enables longitudinal software analysis by reconstructing a sequence of commits and merges from fragmented releases. This allows for the tracking of system evolution and the attribution of specific lines of code to original authors through synthesized version control metadata. The dataset co

f3d is a fast 3D model viewer and rendering engine designed for visualizing 3D meshes, CAD files, and point clouds. It operates across multiple deployment profiles, functioning as a lightweight desktop application, a scientific data visualizer for volumetric and scalar datasets, a headless rendering engine for automated image generation, and a WebAssembly-based renderer for web applications. The project distinguishes itself through specialized support for Gaussian Splatting scene reconstructions and the ability to visualize complex scientific formats such as VTK, NetCDF, and HDF. It features

This project is a Python voxel game engine and real-time renderer designed for interacting with block-based 3D environments. It functions as a procedural terrain simulator and a first-person navigator, allowing users to explore and visualize worlds composed of individual cubes. The system enables direct procedural terrain manipulation, providing a mechanism to add or remove blocks in real time to create custom structures. It utilizes a first-person camera system to translate keyboard and mouse inputs into movement and perspective changes within the virtual space. The engine handles 3D space

Genesis is an embodied AI simulation platform and parallelized robotics simulator designed for training general-purpose robotic agents. It integrates a physics engine for robotics that calculates collisions and movements for rigid bodies, soft tissues, and fluids, alongside a photorealistic 3D rendering engine. The platform features a domain randomization framework to vary environment parameters across parallel simulations, aiding in sim-to-real transfer. It supports the integration of real-world captured light fields and Gaussian splatting to provide photorealistic backgrounds within simulat

Grafika is a collection of reference implementations and benchmarking tools for the Android platform. It provides technical demonstrations for validating camera lifecycles, GPU performance, and media codec configurations, including a suite of OpenGL ES examples and a graphics reference application. The project distinguishes itself through specialized tools for measuring graphics performance, such as benchmarks for texture upload speeds and pixel read latency. It also implements specific hardware-focused patterns, such as using circular buffers for continuous video capture and utilizing virtua

maptalks.js is a JavaScript map rendering library and web map interaction framework used to render interactive 2D and 3D geographic data on a web canvas. It functions as a 3D geospatial engine supporting 3DTiles and GLTF formats, a GeoJSON visualization tool, and a spatial analysis library. The project distinguishes itself through high-performance rendering and dynamic geospatial animation, including the ability to simulate traffic flow and execute smooth visual transitions for map elements. It provides comprehensive tools for interactive geometry editing, allowing users to draw and modify ve

This repository provides the original source code and binaries for legacy disk operating systems. It serves as a historical software archive and a reference implementation for early personal computer operating systems. The project is designed for software archaeology, legacy operating system research, and the study of foundational kernel design. It allows for the technical analysis of historical software architecture and implementation. The codebase covers several core system areas, including monolithic kernel design, segmented memory addressing, and file allocation table indexing. It also i

This project is an open-source 3D game engine designed for building high-fidelity games, simulations, and cinematic environments. It functions as a robotics simulation platform with native integration for ROS 2 to model robot controllers and sensors. The engine features a multi-threaded Forward+ physically based renderer that supports hardware-accelerated ray tracing and global illumination. The system is built on a modular extension architecture using Gems to add or replace features without modifying core binaries. It includes a native SDK for AWS cloud integration, enabling IAM authenticati

This project is an open source specification petition platform and proprietary specification archive. It serves as a markdown-based repository for collecting signatures and community support to urge vendors to open source proprietary software specifications. The platform functions as a tool for open source specification advocacy and proprietary software archival. It creates permanent records of proprietary standards and documents the community efforts required to transition them to open source licenses, ensuring the preservation of technical knowledge. The system utilizes a git-driven contri