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GDI alternatives

  • Microsoft DirectX

  • Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms.

    tags: Bundleware development direct-input direct-setup direct3d
  • WebGL

  • WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2.0, exposed through the HTML5 Canvas element as Document Object Model interfaces. Developers familiar with OpenGL ES 2.0 will recognize WebGL as a Shader-based API using GLSL, with constructs that are semantically similar to those of the underlying OpenGL ES 2.0 API. It stays very close to the OpenGL ES 2.0 specification, with some concessions made for what developers expect out of memory-managed languages such as JavaScript. ยป

    tags: graphic-api graphics html5 javascript-library opengl
  • PyOpenGL

  • Python bindings for OpenGL API.

    tags: api cross-platform development games graphics
  • Crystal Space

  • Crystal Space is a mature, full-featured Software Development Kit (SDK) providing real-time 3D graphics for applications such as games and virtual reality. It is free (LGPL) and cross-platform (Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X).

    tags: Discontinued dev dev-lib dev-libraries dev-library