AirZip Acceleration Engine
Real time image compression library which handles a wide range of standard formats.
url: www.airzip.com/compression.htm
Bar Code DLLs
Create high quality, device independent, Windows MetaFile graphics. Includes programming examples and free bar code tutorial.
url: www.taltech.com/TALtech_web/products/dll_barcodes....
Dislin
Library of subroutines and functions that display data graphically. Software is available for the programming languages C, Fortran 77, Fortran 90, Perl, Python and Java.
url: www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin/
Fastgraph
Collection of graphics functions that can help you develop professional games and applications.
url: www.fastgraph.com/
Free Graphics Libraries, 3D/2D Engines, Animation
Extensive list of graphics libraries (to create and manipulate graphics), 3d and 2d engines.
url: www.thefreecountry.com/developercity/graphicslibra...
G2 Graphical Library
Portable 2D graphics library. Provides a set of functions for simultaneous generation of graphical output on different types of devices.
url: g2.sourceforge.net/
Game programming with DirectX
5 chapters of DirectX tutorial on game programming. Also contains a list of popular graphics libraries.
url: www.scorpioncity.com/djdirectxtut.html
GD Library
A graphics library for fast image creation
url: www.boutell.com/gd/
Glide Open Source Project
The homepage of the Glide Open Source Project.
url: glide.sourceforge.net/
Graphics Magician Home
Learn to write programs with cool graphics, animation, sound effects, and music without understanding all the levels of writing Windows software.
url: graphicsmagician.com/
Graphics Toolkit for AMD Élan SC400 Embedded Microcontroller
AMD ElanSC400 native graphics mode can now easily be implemented in C++ and C programs using this library. Source code included.
url: www.hemodynamic.com/elan/
GrWin Graphics Library
An easy to use free graphics library for Fortran and C(C++) available on Win32 platforms using MinGw, cygwin, VC++/VF or BCC. Interactive graphics programming can be made with it.
url: spdg1.sci.shizuoka.ac.jp/grwinlib/english/
Image Enable
Design imaging applications and image-enable document management systems quickly and effectively with an Eroiica API.
url: www.parallax69software.com/aplik_us.htm
libAfterImage Imaging Library
Image import, storage, manipulation and output library for X.
url: afterstep.sourceforge.net/afterimage/
Libart
A library for high-performance 2D vector and bitmap graphics
url: www.levien.com/libart/
Linux Centre - List of Graphics Libraries
Contains a list of common graphics libraries. Some are platform-independent.
url: www.portalux.com/development/libraries/graphic-lib...
little cms (lcms)
A free, open source, CMM engine. It provides fast transforms between ICC profiles.
url: www.littlecms.com/
OpenGUI
High-level, cross-platform C/C++ graphics and windowing library built on a fast x86 assembler graphics kernel. [Open Source, LGPL]
url: www.tutok.sk/fastgl/
RedDragon 2D Graphics Library
2D Graphics programming library written in VC++ including downloads and game development.
url: www.reddragon2d.freeservers.com/
SFont
A font library for use with SDL which uses variable width bitmap fonts.
url: www.linux-games.com/sfont/
SineMaker
A toolkit for the development of games, demos or other graphic related programs with Visual Basic.
url: hem.spray.se/sinemaker/
Solace
A free graphics library still in development.
url: www.cs.nmsu.edu/~joshagam/Solace/
TDGraphics
allows programmers to write graphics programs transparently run on Unix (X, DGA, GGI) or Windows (DirectX), as fast as possible, while providing a very simple C++ interface.
url: www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/sigs/gamesig/tdgraphics/
TinyPTC
A low level graphics library for software rendering in 32 bit color. It support C, C++ and Java and has optimized assembler blitting routines for computers that support x86/MMX. [Open source]
url: www.gaffer.org/tinyptc/
TUCOWS Linux Graphics Libs
A list of free linux graphics libraries.
url: linux.tucows.com/graphics_libs_default.html
Windows Programming
Comparison of Nugraf Developer's 3D Toolkit and Open GL. Publisthed in ACM Crossroads Magazine.
url: www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds6-4/graphicslib.html
