Awesome List Updates on Jan 10, 2023

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1. Awesome Generative Deep Art

Generative AI history, timelines, maps, and definitions

• [🔥🔥🔥] Mapping the Generative AI landscape | Antler

• [🔥🔥🔥] AI Timeline: A history of text-to-image ML models by Fabian Mosele

• AI-Generated Art: From Text to Images & Beyond Examples

2. Awesome V

Text processing

• pcre2 (⭐6) - Library for processing PCRE regular expressions.

3. Awesome Zsh Plugins

Themes / superconsole - Windows-only

• rigel (⭐0) - Includes decorators for git information, user@hostname and current directory.

4. Awesome Neovim

Search / Diagnostics

• s1n7ax/nvim-search-and-replace (⭐72) - Search and replace in multiple files at the same time from the current working directory.

Utility / Diagnostics

• j-morano/buffer_manager.nvim (⭐327) - Add one or more buffers, reorder them, save them inside a file or just delete them very easily from a small floating window.

Indent / Diagnostics

• LucasTavaresA/simpleIndentGuides.nvim (⭐10) - Indentation guides using the builtin variables.

5. Awesome Quantified Self

Articles & Blogs

• QS Experiments - Science-based approach for Quantified Self, sharing raw data and analysis, modelling physical processes, health trackers comparison and analysis.

Applications and Platforms / Aggregators & Dashboards

• Vital - Plaid like widget that joins together all your fitness data, wearables data and at home lab tests.

Applications and Platforms / Wealth

• Firefly III (⭐20k) - A free and open source personal finance manager

6. Awesome Nextjs

Boilerplates

• Hydrogen - Hydrogen is a Nextjs blog starter template build with tailwindCss and MDX supports. It has all necessary MDX shortcodes out of the box.

7. Awesome Jax

Models and Projects / Flax

• GNNs for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems (⭐55) - A JAX + Flax implementation of Combinatorial Optimization with Physics-Inspired Graph Neural Networks.

8. Awesome Productivity

Tools and Apps / Task Management

• OpenProject - An on premise open source project management solution that comes with a free community version as well as an enterprise version.

9. Awesome Game Engine Dev

Game Engines / Awesome Collections

• 📚 Wikipedia: List of Game Engines - Game engines along with their platforms and licenses.

Game Engines / AAA

• 💰 C4 Engine - Modern console engine.

• 💰 Gamebryo - Complete toolset, flexible workflow, rapid prototyping.

• 💸 Unigine - Real-time 3D engine. Photorealistic graphics, large virtual worlds, C++ and C# API.

Game Engines / Commercial

• 💸 Buildbox - Create 3D & 2D video games without coding.

• 💸 GameSalad - Sophisticated visual programming interface.

• 💸 MANU - Unique animation system helps you create games without coding.

• 💸 Roblox - Create immersive 3D experiences with Lua scripting.

• 💸 Simulation Starter Kit - Create interactive 3D apps across a range of platforms.

Game Engines / Specialty

• 🔒 HARFANG 3D (⭐620) - 3D visualization library for industry professionals, usable in C++, Python, Lua, Go.

• 💰 RPG Maker - Create an original role-playing game without any specialized knowledge.

Learning / Computer Graphics

• Blog Articles
  • 📚 Comparison of Modern Graphics APIs - Modern graphics APIs vs older APIs.
  • 📚 GPU Performance for Game Artists - Common art-related performance issues.

• Graphics API: DirectX
  • 🌎 DirectX - Microsoft API used to create 2D/3D games and apps. [Blog | Samples (⭐6.5k)]
  • 📚 DirectXTutorial.com - Older resource with lots of tutorials on DirectX versions 9 & 11.

• Graphics API: OpenGL
  • 📚 LearnOpenGL 🔥 - Incredible! In depth tutorials for modern graphics programming.
  • 🌎 Mesa 3D - Open source implementations of OpenGL.
  • 🌎 OpenGL - The industry's foundation for high-performance graphics.
  • 📚 OpenGL Tutorial - Collection of OpenGL tutorials with source code examples.

• Graphics API: Vulkan
  • 🌎 Vulkan - Modern cross-platform graphics API. [Samples (⭐4.8k)]
  • 📚 Vulkan Tutorial - Teaches the basics of using Vulkan graphics and compute API.

• Graphics API: WebGL
  • 🌎 WebGL - Open web standard 3D graphics API. [GitHub (⭐2.7k)]
  • 📚 WebGL Fundamentals 🔥 - Full understanding of what WebGL really is and how it works.
  • 📚 WebGL 2 Fundamentals - Updated to use the WebGL2 standard.
  • 📚 WebGL 2 Samples (⭐1k) - Short and easy to understand samples demonstrating WebGL 2 features.
  • 📚 WebGL Tutorial - How to use the canvas element to draw WebGL graphics.

Learning / Engine Development

• Blog Articles
  • 📚 How to Become a Game Engine Developer - Starting point on game engine development.

• Books
  • 📚 Game Engine Architecture - Theory and practice of game engine development.

Learning / Game Development

• Awesome Collections
  • 📚 Awesome Gamedev (⭐2.7k) - Collection of free resources for making games.
  • 📚 GameDev-Resources (⭐4.3k) - Wonderful list of game development resources.
  • 📚 Magictools (⭐15k) - List of game development resources to make magic happen.
  • 🌎 Web Game Dev - Resources on techniques and tools around JavaScript game development.

• Books
  • 📚 Art of Game Design - Teaches game design in an accessible manner.
  • 📚 Game Programming Patterns - Patterns found in games that make code easier to understand.

• Developer Portals
  • 🌎 Game Developer - Industry blogs, events, jobs, updates and more. Formerly Gamasutra.
  • 🌎 GameDev.net - Game dev forums, tutorials, blogs, projects, portfolios, and news.
  • 🌎 GameFromScratch.com - Game dev news, tutorials and much more.
  • 🌎 itch.io - Game dev resources and platform to showcase / promote / buy & sell games.

• Education Portals
  • 🌎 Lazy Foo' Tutorials - Beginning game programming with SDL.

Learning / Programming

• 📚 Big-O Cheat Sheet - Big-O complexities of algorithms used in computer science.

• 🌎 Deadlock Empire - Interactive tutorial to master threads and concurrency.

• 📚 Every Programmer Should Know (⭐87k) - Technical things every developer should know.

• 📚 Games of Coding (⭐2k) - Games that teach you a programming language.

• 🌎 Geeks for Geeks - Tutorials, articles, courses, coding competitions, jobs and more.

• 📚 Learn to Program (⭐4.4k) - Educational resources to learn to program.

Libraries / C

• C: Cross-Platform
  • 🎉 Cosmopolitan (⭐20k) - Build-once run-anywhere C library.

• C: Entity Component System
  • 🎉 Flecs (⭐7.3k) - Fast and lightweight entity component system in C99.

• C: File Formats
  • 🎉 Assimp (⭐12k) - Open Asset Importer Library. Loads 40+ 3D file formats.
  • 🎉 cgltf (⭐1.6k) - Single-file glTF 2.0 loader and writer in C99.
  • ⭐ dr_libs (⭐1.4k) - Single-file audio decoding libraries.
  • 🎉 Libspng (⭐789) - Simple, modern libpng alternative.
  • 🎉 Miniz (⭐2.4k) - Single-file drop-in replacement for zlib's most used APIs (libpng and libzip).
  • 🎉 OBJ GL Loader v2 (⭐12) - Quite fast wavefront OBJ loader for OpenGL.
  • 🎉 PL_MPEG (⭐857) - Single-file library for decoding MPEG1 Video and MP2 Audio.
  • 🎉 QOI (⭐7.2k) - The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless image compression.
  • ⭐ stb_vorbis (⭐29k) - Ogg Vorbis audio decoder.

• C: File System
  • 🎉 HexEmbed (⭐50) - Small utility to help embed files in C/C++ programs in an easy, cross-platform way.
  • ⭐ Incbin (⭐1.1k) - Include binary and text files in your C/C++ apps with ease.
  • 🎉 PhysicsFS (⭐643) - Portable, flexible file I/O abstraction. Provides access to various archives.
  • ⭐ Where Am I (⭐495) - Locates the current path on the local file system.

• C: Fonts
  • 🎉 Font Stash (⭐722) - Lightweight library that uses stb_truetype to render fonts to a texture atlas.
  • 🎉 IconFontCppHeaders (⭐1.3k) - C/C++ headers and C# classes for icon fonts.
  • ⭐ stb_truetype (⭐29k) - Single-header file library that processes TrueType font files.
  • 🎉 Vertext (⭐30) - Generates vertices for rendering text, requires stb_truetype.

• C: Lighting
  • ⭐ Light Mapper (⭐1.5k) - Single-file library for lightmap baking by using your existing OpenGL renderer.

• C: Network
  • 🎉 librg (⭐1.4k) - Middleware between networking / file-streaming libraries and app logic.

Libraries / C++

• C++: Entity Component System
  • 🎉 EntityX (⭐2.3k) - Fast, type-safe C++ entity component system.
  • 🎉 Entt (⭐11k) - Gaming meets modern C++, a fast and reliable entity component system.

• C++: Geometry
  • 🎉 CinoLib (⭐1k) - Header-only library for processing polygonal and polyhedral meshes.
  • 🎉 Delabella (⭐236) - Super stable 2D delaunay triangulation.
  • 🎉 Delaunator-Cpp (⭐0) - Really fast library for Delaunay triangulation of 2D points.
  • 🔒 Easy3D (⭐1.5k) - Easy-to-use library for 3D modeling, geometry processing, and rendering.
  • 🎉 Extrude (⭐22) - Converts 2D images into 3D extruded meshes.
  • 🔒 Generator (⭐226) - Procedural geometry generation library for C++11.
  • 🎉 Geometric Tools - Mathematics, geometry, graphics, image analysis and physics in C++14.
  • 🎉 GeometronLib (⭐97) - Meshes for 3D shapes (cube, sphere, etc.) and ray / geometry intersection.
  • 🔒 Libigl (⭐4.8k) - Simple geometry processing library.
  • 🎉 MeshOptimizer (⭐6.4k) - Mesh optimization library that makes meshes smaller and faster to render.
  • 🎉 Polygon Mesh Processing Library (⭐1.4k) - Processing / visualizing polygon surface meshes.
  • 🎉 PolyPartition (⭐682) - 2D polygon partitioning and triangulation.
  • ⭐ RamerDouglasPeucker - Reduces number of points along a 2D line.
  • 🎉 Recast & Detour (⭐7.1k) - Navigation-mesh toolset for games.
  • 🎉 Seam-aware Decimater (⭐514) - Simplifies mesh while preserving UVs, based on Seamless.
  • 🎉 Spheres (⭐268) - Four methods to create a sphere mesh.
  • 🔒 Trimesh2 - Utilities for input, output, and manipulation of 3D triangle meshes.
  • 🎉 V-HACD (⭐1.5k) - Decomposes a 3D surface into a set of "near" convex parts.

• C++: Lighting
  • 🎉 Thekla Atlas (⭐475) - Atlas generation tool.
  • 🎉 UVAtlas (⭐880) - DirectX library for creating and packing texture atlases.

• C++: Utility
  • 🎉 Any-Lite (⭐143) - Header-only 'any' type for C++98 and above.
  • 🎉 EASTL (⭐8.8k) - Electronic Arts STL replacement, emphasis on performance.
  • 🎉 faker-cxx (⭐365) - C++20 Faker library for generating fake (but realistic) data for testing and development.
  • 🎉 Parallel Hashmap (⭐3k) - Header-only, fast and memory-friendly hashmap and binary tree containers.
  • 🎉 Spdlog (⭐27k) - Fast logging library.
  • 🎉 Tiny-Process-Library - Making it simple to create and stop new processes.
  • 🎉 TinyXML-2 (⭐5.4k) - XML parser that can be easily integrated into other programs.

• C++: Visual Programming / Nodes
  • 🎉 NodeEditor (⭐3.4k) - Graph-controlled data processing, built with Qt.
  • 🎉 QuickQanava (⭐1.3k) - Display graphs and relational content in a QtQuick-based app, in C++14.
  • 🎉 Visual Script Engine (⭐203) - Visual scripting engine designed for embedding.

Libraries / C#

• C#: App Framework
  • 🎉 ATF (⭐1.9k) - Components for making tools on Windows, started in 2005.

• C#: Audio
  • 🎉 NAudio (⭐5.9k) - Audio and MIDI library for .NET.

• C#: Game Engine w/Editor
  • 🎉 Duality (⭐1.4k) - Modular 2D engine, editor built with OpenTK.
  • 🎉 Flat Red Ball (⭐486) - 2D game engine & design tools, built with MonoGame. [Website]
  • 🎉 Murder (⭐2.9k) - Pixel-art, ECS game engine built on MonoGame. [Docs]
  • 🎉 Stride (⭐7k) - Game engine for realistic rendering and VR. Formerly Xenko. [Website]
  • 💸 Unity - Biggest name in game engines, industry standard.

Libraries / Haxe

• Haxe: App Framework
  • 🎉 Lime (⭐799) - Flexible, lightweight layer for Haxe cross-platform developers.
  • 🎉 nme (⭐489) - Cross-platform native backend for Haxe projects.

• Haxe: Serialization / Storage
  • 🎉 CastleDB (⭐581) - Structured database with a local web service to edit it.
  • 🎉 Format (⭐135) - Various files formats support for Haxe.
  • 🎉 HxBit (⭐160) - Binary serialization and network synchronization library.

• Haxe: Utility
  • 🎉 hexMachina (⭐6) - Powerful modular MVC framework. [Website]
  • 🎉 HxColorToolkit (⭐45) - Library for color conversion and color scheme generation.
  • 🎉 HxMath (⭐91) - Game-oriented math library for the Haxe language.
  • 🎉 SteamWrap (⭐114) - Haxe native extension for the Steam API.

• Haxe: Visual Programming / Nodes
  • 🎉 Haxe-Blockly (⭐5) - Haxe wrapper for Blockly

Libraries / JavaScript

• JavaScript: Entity Component System
  • 🎉 Becsy (⭐251) - Multithreaded ECS for TypeScript and JavaScript.
  • 🔒 bitECS (⭐1.1k) - Functional, minimal, data-oriented, ultra-high performance ECS library.
  • 🎉 Ecsy (⭐1.1k) - Experimental ECS aiming to be lightweight, easy to use.
  • 🎉 Miniplex (⭐924) - Entity management system for games.

• JavaScript: File Formats
  • 🎉 JSMpeg (⭐6.5k) - MPEG1 Video Decoder in JavaScript.

• JavaScript: Graphics - 3D
  • 🎉 Babylon.js (⭐24k) 🔥 - Powerful web rendering engine. [Extensions (⭐181) | Website]
  • 🎉 ClayGL (⭐2.8k) - WebGL library for scalable Web3D applications.
  • 🎉 CopperLicht - A 3D library for WebGL. [CopperCube Editor]
  • 🎉 Filament for Web (⭐19k) - WebAssembly build of Google's 3D graphics library, Filament. [Demos]
  • 🎉 Four (⭐336) - Minimal three.js alternative.
  • 🎉 Hilo3d (⭐658) - WebGL 3D rendering engine by Alibaba.
  • 🎉 Litescene.js (⭐375) - WebGL 3D engine library, used by WebGLStudio.
  • 🎉 LUME (⭐1.4k) - Simplifies the creation of interactive 2D/3D experiences.
  • ⭐ OGL (⭐4.1k) 🔥 - Fast, powerful, minimal WebGL library. [Examples]
  • 🎉 PicoGL.js (⭐795) - Minimal WebGL 2 rendering library. [Examples]
  • 🎉 Pixi3D (⭐795) - 3D renderer for PixiJS, seamless integration with 2D apps. [Examples]
  • 🎉 RedGL (⭐157) - JavaScript 3D WebGL library.
  • 🎉 Regl (⭐5.4k) - Fast functional WebGL.
  • 🎉 SwissGL (⭐1.2k) - Minimalistic wrapper on top of WebGL2.
  • 🎉 ThingJS (⭐199) - Lightweight, extendable 3D library, aka t3d.
  • 🎉 Three.js (⭐108k) 🔥 - General-purpose 3D library. [Awesome (⭐765) | Docs | Editor | Examples]
  • 🎉 TWGL (⭐2.8k) - Tiny WebGL helper Library. [Examples]
  • 📚 WebGL Frameworks - List of WebGL frameworks on Wikipedia.
  • 📚 WebGL / WebGPU Frameworks - List of WebGL and WebGPU frameworks and libraries.
  • 🎉 x3dom (⭐842) - Integrate 3D content seamlessly into your webpage.

• JavaScript: Layout
  • 📚 Complete Guide to Flexbox - Comprehensive guide to CSS flexbox layout.
  • 📚 Complete Guide to Grid - Comprehensive guide to CSS grid.

• JavaScript: Networking
  • 🎉 Socket.io (⭐62k) - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
  • 🎉 WebRTC - Supports video, voice, and generic data to be sent between peers.

• JavaScript: Utility
  • 🎉 Clipboard.js (⭐34k) - Small, modern copy to clipboard.
  • 🎉 Day.js (⭐48k) - Fast 2kB alternative to Moment.js (⭐48k) with the same modern API.
  • 🎉 i18next (⭐8.2k) - Popular internationalization framework.
  • 🎉 jQuery (⭐60k) - Fast and feature-rich JavaScript library. [Website]
  • 🎉 PreloadJS (⭐2.9k) - Preloading assets w/progress events.
  • 🎉 Struct Vec (⭐27) - JavaScript array-like containers for multithreading.

Libraries / Pascal

• Pascal: Game Framework
  • 🎉 Apus (⭐178) - Cross-platform library for making 2D games.

• Pascal: Physics
  • 🎉 Kraft (⭐118) - Object Pascal 3D physics engine.

Libraries / Python

• Python: Cross-Platform
  • 💸 Anvil - Full stack web apps with nothing but Python.
  • 🎉 Brython (⭐6.5k) - Python 3 running in the browser.

Libraries / Zig

• Zig: File System
  • 🎉 Known Folders (⭐265) - Provides access to well-known folders across several operating systems.

Open Source Games / C

• 💸 Handmade Hero - Videos on making a game from start to finish, source code for $15.

Open Source Games / C++

• 🔒 Doom 3 (⭐3.3k) - Doom 3 GPL source release.

Open Source Games / Java

• 🔒 Pixel Dungeon (⭐3.7k) - Traditional roguelike game with pixel-art graphics and simple interface.

Specialty Topics / AI / Pathfinding

• 📚 Beginner's Guide to Game AI - Intro to concepts used in AI for games.

Specialty Topics / Color Manipulation

• 📚 How to Choose Colors Procedurally - Procedural palettes and how to generate them.

Specialty Topics / Fluid / Smoke

• 📚 Fluid Simulation on the GPU - GPU Gems Chapter 38 - Fast, stable fluid simulation on the GPU.

Specialty Topics / Lighting / Shadows

• Gamma
  • 📚 What Every Coder Should Know About Gamma - Light emission vs perceptual brightness.

• Shadows 2D
  • 📚 2D Pixel Perfect Shadows (⭐1.9k) - An approach to 2D pixel-perfect lights / shadows using shaders.
  • 📚 2D Visibility - Excellent interactive tutorial on 2D visibility.
  • 📚 Fast 2D shadows in Unity - Adapting 3D rendering techniques to achieve fast 2D shadows.
  • 📚 Sight & Light - How to create 2D visibility / shadow effects for your game. [Source (⭐1.1k)]
  • 📚 Symmetric Shadowcasting - Common technique for calculating field of view.

• Shadows 3D
  • 📚 Efficient Soft-Edged Shadows - GPU Gems 2 Chapter 17.
  • 📚 Screen Space Shadows - Great exploration of screen space shadows.
  • 📚 Shadow Mapping - Shadow mapping and the techniques used to acheive it.

Specialty Topics / Physics

• Platformer
  • 📚 2D Physics Games - Using Box2D for water, ropes, gravity, lines, vehicles, etc.
  • 📚 Basic 2D Platformer Physics - How to create a physics system for a platformer.

• Water / Buoyancy
  • 📚 2D Water - Modeling 2D water with springs.

Specialty Topics / Rendering

• 📚 GPU Driven Rendering - Calculating rendering on the GPU in compute shaders.

• 📚 Model Batching - Drawing many different models in a single draw call.

Specialty Topics / Scripting

• 📚 Adding Languages to Game Engines - Story of adding scripting to a game.

• 📚 Implementing a Scripting Engine - Writting a scripting engine from scratch.

• 📚 Embedded Scripting Languages - Scripting languages and engines available as libraries.

• 📚 List of Embedded Scripting Languages (⭐1.4k) - Scripting languages to use in your app / game.

• 📚 Scriptorium (⭐512) - Game scripting languages benchmarked.

Specialty Topics / Shaders

• Fire
  • 📚 Fire Shader in GLSL - Fire intro shader using noise textures and masking.
  • 🌎 Simplex 3D Noise - Simplex noise fire simulation shader at ShaderToy.

• Upscaling
  • 📚 How do I perform an xBR or hqx filter in XNA? - Upscaling shader code.
  • 📚 hqx - Wikipedia article about the hqx pixel art upscaling algorithm developed by Maxim Stepin.

• Wireframe
  • 📚 Flat and Wireframe Shading - Flat shading / wireframes using Barycentric Coordinates.

Specialty Topics / Signed Distance Fields

• 📚 Basic 2D SDFs - Basics of rendering 2D shapes with SDFs in shaders.

• 📚 Bezier Strokes - Blog post on rendering bezier strokes with SDFs.

• 📚 Signed Distance Field Resources (⭐703) - Tutorials, papers, software, demos, discussions, etc.

• 🎉 SDF Mesh Generation (⭐1.7k) - Python API to generate 3D meshes with SDFs.

Specialty Topics / Tiling

• 📚 List of Eucliden Uniform Tilings - Wikipedia article on uniform tiling, space-filling polygons.

Tools / Software / 2D Game Dev

• 💰 Sprite Illuminator - Create stunning light effects with 2D sprites in your game engine.

• 💰 Texture Packer - Create sprite sheets and optimize your game graphics.

Tools / Software / Animation Software

• 💸 Cascadeur - 3D animation software for physics-based character animation.

• 💸 Spine - 2D animation for games.

Tools / Software / Color / Palettes

• 🌎 Colormind - Color scheme generator, can learn color styles from photographs, art, etc.

• 🌎 COLOURlovers - Share colors, palettes and patterns.

• 🌎 Huemint - Uses machine learning to generate colors for graphic design.

• 🌎 Paletton - Explore complementary colors on the color wheel.

Tools / Software / Generative Art

• Sound
  • 🆓 Dittytoy - Create generative music using a simple JavaScript API.
  • 🆓 Sonic Pi (⭐11k) - Kind of musical instrument where you code music.

Tools / Software / Materials / Textures

• 💸 PixPlant - Tool to allow simple creation of tiling 3D materials.

Tools / Software / Pixel Art

• 💰 Fluid FX - Uses fluid simulation to achieve animations like explosions, blood, smoke, etc.

• 💰 Juice FX - Add style to your sprites and animations with ease.

• 💰 PixaTool - Create pixel art by converting your images, sprites or videos.

Tools / Software / Vector Editors

• 💰 Vec Maker - Easy to use vector design.

Tools / Software / Voxel

• 💰 Ken Shape - Draw in 2D, set the depth for each pixel and generate 3D models!

Video Game Assets / Audio Assets

• Music
  • 🆓 BandLab Sounds - High-quality loops and packs used for music creation.
  • 💸 Bensound - Original music tracks, free with attribution. Perfect for games.
  • 💸 Incompetech - Nice collection of game tracks. Buy or attribution required.
  • 💸 Melody Loops - Nice mix of free and affordable music loops.
  • 💸 Soundimage - Looping music tracks for videogames. Buy or attribution required.

Video Game Assets / Model Assets

• 🆓 Poly Pizza - Build something beautiful with thousands of free low poly models.

• 💸 Sketchfab - Huge library of 3D assets.

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