2d Graphics Open Source Projects

Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

Community-built comprehensive 2D content creation appplication for graphic design, digital art, and interactive real-time motion graphics powered by a node-based procedural graphics engine

Go Graphics - 2D rendering in Go with a simple API.

2D Vector Graphics Engine Powered by a JIT Compiler

💥 A flexible rendering engine for visualization.

TIGR - the TIny GRaphics library for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android.

Non-destructive 2D graphics editor (POC)

:video_game: Simple, open-source 2D graphics for everyone

Simple drawings using vector graphics; Cairo "for tourists!"

A tiny, single-header <canvas>-like 2D rasterizer for C++

My custom made engine based on the great Raylib Framework. Main focus is being performant and only using draw functions instead of textures.

Lightweight C 2D graphics API agnostic library with parallelism support

A library for 2D graphics, written in Rust, that works with multiple back-ends

ModernUI is a comprehensive UI engine and desktop application framework & runtime

Picasso is a high quality 2D vector graphic rendering library. It support path , matrix , gradient , pattern , image and truetype font.

Java 2D game library

A selection of generative art scripts written in Python

2D GPU renderer for dynamic UIs

Jet-Lagged Engine is a work-in-progress C++/Lua game engine supporting Windows, Linux, Mac and browsers.

:pen: Extensions to ImageSharp containing a cross-platform 2D polygon manipulation API and drawing operations.

A Java API for 3d and 2d charts

A lightweight JavaScript library, written in TypeScript, to create isometric projections using SVGs

Godot addon to animate a CollisionShape2D along with the frames of an AnimatedSprite2D. Useful for making changing hitboxes, hurtboxes and hardboxes. Comes with an Editor, making things easy.

A library for developers who want to approach to creative coding, artists who want to approach coding and for those who find it fun to play with math.

Minecraft mod that embeds Modern UI into Minecraft, providing modding API, text layout engine and some widgets.

2D plotting for Julia

set of single-header libraries for C/C++. The code is far from finished but some parts are quite usable.

Creative coding in Go

Rasterx is an SVG 2.0 path compliant rasterizer that can use either scany, the golang vector or a derivative of the freetype anti-aliaser.

Fast realtime softare rendering library for C++14 using SSE/AVX/NEON. 2D, 3D and isometric rendering with minimal system dependencies.

FidoCadJ is a free user-friendly vector graphic editor for MacOSX, Linux, Windows and Android with a library of electronic symbols.

Qt with skia

Anti-Grain Evolution. 2D graphics engine for Speed and Quality in C++.

🌊 Custom SpriteKit node that allows to simulate 2D water with respect to physics. The app demonstrates Flocking behaviour using GameplayKit, key-frame animation and custom fragment shader chaining (GLSL) 🤯

Sample project for NSprites package

Resources for teaching programming for artists, designers and architects