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graphics rendering engines and libraries

Recent window: last 5.4 months (2026-05-01 → 2026-10-11), compared with the prior 5.4 months.

media · 97 members · Data as of 2026-10-14

Products in this niche provide low-level frameworks, shader toolkits, and algorithmic pipelines for drawing 2D and 3D visuals across web and native platforms. They are adopted by graphics programmers, creative technologists, and software engineers building custom visual effects, ray tracers, and neural rendering workflows. Unlike full game engines or 3D modeling applications, these tools focus specifically on rendering performance, shader logic, and hardware acceleration at the code level.

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Name Source Upvotes ▼ Launched
OpenDLSS-NR GITHUB 371 2026-09-20
ff-tracking GITHUB 365 2026-10-09
liquid-glass GITHUB 302 2026-10-06
threejs-architecture-effects GITHUB 296 2026-09-22
An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine HN 211 2026-06-20
A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia HN 198 2026-02-19
DLSS 5 PH 180 2026-03-17
M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown HN 176 2026-04-04
threejs-particle-fluids GITHUB 175 2026-09-25
world.execute-me-ascii GITHUB 173 2026-09-26
caustic-volume GITHUB 162 2026-09-26
I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI HN 155 2026-06-15
flute GITHUB 122 2026-09-15
hktex GITHUB 97 2026-09-09
a Rust ray tracer that runs on any GPU HN 95 2025-11-03
ArcEngine GITHUB 83 2026-09-15
100 Million splats, a whole town, rendered in M2 MacBook Air HN 81 2025-12-15
A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL) HN 80 2026-06-01
ViewportStencil GITHUB 69 2026-09-29
EdenLive GITHUB 64 2026-10-12
Fresnel GITHUB 62 2026-09-17
three-dlss-nr GITHUB 60 2026-10-02
DLSSNR-AMD GITHUB 55 2026-09-24
VoxCSS HN 53 2025-12-03
Reverse perspective camera for OpenGL (Three.js) HN 52 2025-11-10
bgfx-dlss5-nr GITHUB 46 2026-09-28
Daub GITHUB 45 2026-09-10
perspective-quads GITHUB 45 2026-09-25
UltraText_Bench GITHUB 42 2026-10-08
node-webgl GITHUB 39 2026-09-16
WaterCuda GITHUB 39 2026-09-19
mullion GITHUB 39 2026-10-05
wled-toy GITHUB 37 2026-09-21
Entombed in a Raycaster HN 37 2026-10-03
A creative coding library for making art with desktop windows HN 37 2026-01-19
vgpu PH 35 2026-09-22
High speed graphics rendering research with tinygrad/tinyJIT HN 31 2026-01-22
blender-to-web GITHUB 25 2026-09-12
taichi-path-tracer-from-buaa-cg2024 GITHUB 25 2026-09-13
ClearWater6.1 GITHUB 24 2026-09-29
painted-rickroll GITHUB 21 2026-09-24
small3d GITHUB 20 2026-09-24
hueful GITHUB 20 2026-10-07
OpenBRender GITHUB 20 2026-10-07
TressFX-Godot GITHUB 19 2026-09-14
High-Performance .NET Bindings for the Vello Sparse Strips CPU Renderer HN 18 2025-11-11
JetMegatexturesDemo GITHUB 18 2026-09-25
Ripl HN 17 2026-03-19
wwmi-dx12 GITHUB 16 2026-10-09
webgpu-aquarium GITHUB 16 2026-09-14