graphicsso

graphicsso is a cross-platform graphics rendering library that aims to simplify cross-API development for 2D and 3D graphics. By providing an abstraction over graphics backends, graphicsso lets applications target multiple graphics APIs with a consistent API surface. It supports backends such as OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal, and Direct3D, enabling desktop and mobile deployment.

Architecture: The library is organized into modular layers. A backend interface encapsulates API-specific calls, a renderer manages frame preparation and draw submission, and a scene graph structures objects in a scene. The material and shader system allows writing shaders in multiple shading languages and linking them to materials. A resource manager handles textures, meshes, buffers, and pipelines, while a simple asset pipeline supports loading common formats.

Features: graphicsso emphasizes a balance of performance and extensibility. It provides instanced rendering, texture atlases, compute shader support, multi-threaded command submission, and a compact API surface. The library also includes tooling for debugging and basic performance profiling, along with sample applications and integration hooks for common engines and toolchains.

Development and licensing: graphicsso is maintained as an open-source project with contributions from a community of developers. The project is released under an permissive license, with source code and documentation available in its public repository.

Usage and ecosystem: The project is used in education and among indie developers to explore rendering concepts and build lightweight visualization tools. It remains engine-agnostic, offering integration patterns for engine developers and tooling workflows while encouraging community contributions and extensions.