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Shaders projects on GitHub

Writing GPU shaders for rendering effects and graphics.

As of , the most-starred Shaders projects on GitHub are mpv (37.4K stars), raylib (35.3K stars) and Babylon.js (26.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 39 Shaders repositories with 361K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was KytyPS5, with +195 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+195

KytyPS5

KytyPS5/KytyPS5 · ★ 8.9K

KytyPS5 is a free and open-source PlayStation 5 emulator (translation layer) written in C++ for Windows and Linux, with experimental macOS support, based on a heavily modified version of the Kyty project.

+37

shaders

shader-effects-inc/shaders · ★ 5.1K

Shaders is a library of 200+ WebGPU visual effects (gradients, noise, glass, metal, light, distortions, transitions, blurs, cursor effects) shipped as ready-to-use components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid and plain JavaScript.

+34

raylib

raysan5/raylib · ★ 35.3K

raylib is a simple and easy-to-use C library (C99) for videogames programming, inspired by Borland BGI and the XNA framework — you write code, and it handles windows, graphics, inputs and audio.

+22

ProsperoEden

blackbearreloaded/ProsperoEden · ★ 746

ProsperoEden is an unofficial PS5 homebrew port of Eden, an accurate, high-performance emulator, and is not affiliated with the Eden team or Sony. It runs as a native PlayStation 5 app with its own launcher and library.

The all-time top

39 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · mpv-player/mpv

    mpv

    mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

    37.4K
  2. #2 · raysan5/raylib

    raylib

    raylib is a simple and easy-to-use C library (C99) for videogames programming, inspired by Borland BGI and the XNA framework — you write code, and it handles windows, graphics, inputs and audio.

    35.3K
  3. #3 · BabylonJS/Babylon.js

    Babylon.js

    Babylon.js is an open 3D game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework: you build scenes in TypeScript or JavaScript and render them in the browser.

    26.2K
  1. 4

    tinyrenderer

    24.4Kssloy/tinyrenderer · C++

    This is 'tinyrenderer' — a hands-on computer-graphics course that walks you through writing a software 3D renderer from scratch in about 500 lines of C++, so you understand how OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal, and DirectX actually work under the hood.

  2. 5

    filament

    20.6Kgoogle/filament · C++

    Filament is Google's open-source, real-time physically based rendering engine (PBR) for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows and WASM/WebGL2, designed to be as small and efficient as possible — especially on Android.

  3. 6

    3d-game-shaders-for-beginners

    20Klettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners · C++

    A step-by-step guide to implementing 3D game shading techniques such as SSAO, depth of field, bloom, normal mapping, fog, and screen space reflection/refraction for your own 3D game.

  4. 7

    samples

    19.3Kflutter/samples · Dart

    An open source collection of samples illustrating best practices for Flutter — runnable quickstarts and demo apps covering widgets, navigation, shaders, testing, and embedding Flutter into native apps.

  5. 8

    wgpu

    18.3Kgfx-rs/wgpu · Rust

    wgpu is a cross-platform, safe, pure-Rust graphics library based on the WebGPU standard. It runs natively on Vulkan, Metal, D3D12, and OpenGL, and in the browser on top of WebGL2 and WebGPU via WebAssembly.

  6. 9

    dxvk

    18.3Kdoitsujin/dxvk · C++

    DXVK is a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 8, 9, 10 and 11. It lets 3D applications and games run on Linux under Wine by translating D3D calls to Vulkan instead of using Wine's built-in wined3d.

  7. 10

    WebGL-Fluid-Simulation

    16.7KPavelDoGreat/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation · JavaScript

    It is an interactive WebGL demo that simulates fluid dynamics in real time, letting you swirl colorful liquid-like effects with your mouse or finger directly in the browser.

  8. 11

    gpu.js

    15.5Kgpujs/gpu.js · JavaScript

    GPU.js is a JavaScript library that takes the functions you write and runs them on your GPU as shaders instead of on the CPU — a big speedup for parallel math like matrix multiplication.

  9. 12

    awesome-creative-coding

    15.5Kterkelg/awesome-creative-coding · HTML

    A curated list of resources for creative coding - generative art, data visualization, and interaction design - covering books, courses, frameworks, shader tutorials, and communities.

  10. 13

    skills

    13.7KMiniMax-AI/skills · C#

    MiniMax Skills is a collection of plug-in 'skill' packages that give AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode) structured, production-quality guidance for frontend, fullstack, Android, iOS, Flutter, React Native, shader work, and MiniMax-API-powered media generation (images, video, music, TTS, documents).

  11. 14

    Vulkan

    12.2KSaschaWillems/Vulkan · GLSL

    A comprehensive collection of open source C++ examples for Vulkan, the low-level graphics and compute API from Khronos, covering everything from a basic triangle to PBR, deferred rendering and hardware ray tracing.

  12. 15

    renderdoc

    11.2Kbaldurk/renderdoc · C++

    RenderDoc is a stand-alone, frame-capture based graphics debugger for Vulkan, D3D11, D3D12, OpenGL, and OpenGL ES, used to debug GPU rendering in your own programs.

  13. 16

    Craft

    11.1Kfogleman/Craft · C

    Craft is a simple Minecraft clone written in C with modern OpenGL (shaders). It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and includes online multiplayer via a Python-based server.

  14. 17

    KytyPS5

    8.9KKytyPS5/KytyPS5 · C++

    KytyPS5 is a free and open-source PlayStation 5 emulator (translation layer) written in C++ for Windows and Linux, with experimental macOS support, based on a heavily modified version of the Kyty project.

  15. 18

    react-native-skia

    8.7Kwcandillon/react-native-skia · TypeScript

    React Native Skia brings Google's Skia graphics engine (the renderer used by Chrome and Android) to React Native, letting you write high-performance 2D graphics, shaders, and animations using a React component API.

  16. 19

    threeui

    6.7KMengTo/threeui · HTML

    ThreeUI Community is the open-source, login-free edition of a React component catalog built around Three.js/WebGL and shader-driven UI components, with a live interactive browsing site.

  17. 20

    shaders

    5.1Kshader-effects-inc/shaders · TypeScript

    Shaders is a library of 200+ WebGPU visual effects (gradients, noise, glass, metal, light, distortions, transitions, blurs, cursor effects) shipped as ready-to-use components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid and plain JavaScript.

  18. 21

    canvas-ui

    5KDavidHDev/canvas-ui · TypeScript

    Canvas UI is an open-source library of creative canvas components for building live, interactive web effects. Each component draws fluid simulations, shader effects, or 3D scenes directly over your real, still-clickable HTML.

  19. 22

    tidewater

    1.3Kdgreenheck/tidewater · JavaScript

    Tidewater is an island fishing game that runs right in your browser: cast from the pier, the beach or your own boat, fight the fish, sell the catch to Joe, and spend it on better gear at Marta's chandlery.

  20. 23

    crosstl

    1.1KCrossGL/crosstl · Python

    CrossTL is a shader and compute program translator built around CrossGL, an intermediate representation (IR) language that bridges graphics APIs, GPU-compute platforms, and systems-language targets.

  21. 24

    DLSS5oneclick

    1.1Kfaisalkindi/DLSS5oneclick · Rust

    DLSS5oneclick is a one-click Windows tool that installs a leaked DLSS 5 neural-rendering build into any DirectX 11/12 PC game, whether or not that game already ships its own DLSS, so you get RTX neural upscaling even in titles Nvidia has not officially patched.

  22. 25

    flutter_scene

    961bdero/flutter_scene · Dart

    Flutter Scene is a complete realtime 3D game engine for Flutter, covering physically-based rendering, physics, audio, animation, a scene editor, and a full asset pipeline, running on every platform Flutter supports, including the web.

  23. 26

    OpenDLSS-NR

    929maanHimself/OpenDLSS-NR · JavaScript

    OpenDLSS-NR is a from-scratch Vulkan reimplementation of NVIDIA's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering network, matching the original bit-exactly down to every internal block boundary, not just the final image.

  24. 27

    ProsperoEden

    746blackbearreloaded/ProsperoEden · C++

    ProsperoEden is an unofficial PS5 homebrew port of Eden, an accurate, high-performance emulator, and is not affiliated with the Eden team or Sony. It runs as a native PlayStation 5 app with its own launcher and library.

  25. 28

    bbhost

    641droogie/bbhost · C++

    bbhost is a translation layer that runs Bloodborne's own unmodified 1.09 PS4 executable on Windows and Linux, reimplementing the PS4's system libraries and translating its GPU work (GCN shaders and draw calls) to Vulkan, aiming for a definitive PC version with any resolution, 60 fps, keyboard/mouse, mods and online play.

  26. 29

    ChunUI

    538liseami/ChunUI · Swift

    ChunUI is a SwiftUI design system extracted from the production iOS app Zinner, giving you a ready-made monochrome visual language: grayscale plus one brand color, neumorphic buttons, native sheet presentation, Metal shader effects and dot-matrix animations.

  27. 30

    Viscose-carousel

    514Yousuf-developer/Viscose-carousel · JavaScript

    Viscose is a portfolio carousel rendered entirely as a single WebGL fragment shader. Cards sit on a ring that's mostly off-screen; as they come together they melt into each other like liquid, and as they pull apart they draw thin threads between them.

  28. 31

    TriAevum

    508coccofresco/TriAevum · C++

    TriAevum is a native PC AOT (ahead-of-time) recompilation runtime for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, with a modern NRI/Vulkan renderer, a single-screen UI and customizable graphics options.

  29. 32

    framefields

    420gatewai-dev/framefields · TypeScript

    Framefields is a TypeScript npm package for code-first video: you write a composition in code (layers, 3D, typography, audio, charts) and it renders it natively on GPU via WebGPU/Dawn into an MP4, with no desktop creative suite needed.

  30. 33

    p2-rtx

    392xoxor4d/p2-rtx · C++

    This is a mod for Portal 2 that makes the original game compatible with Nvidia's RTX Remix path-tracing framework by manually reimplementing the game's fixed-function rendering pipeline.

  31. 34

    sylva

    348MengTo/sylva · HTML

    Sylva is an interactive Three.js landscape study: a procedural, moss-covered root grows through an editorial conservation scene and reacts to the pointer as if it were alive.

  32. 35

    liquid-glass-screens

    313Appllama/liquid-glass-screens · TypeScript

    It's an open-source React Native/Expo cookbook with two 'liquid glass' welcome screens — a glass sphere that shrinks into a plus button on swipe, with floating stickers and interactive gestures. It's a UI study inspired by Wabi's create screen, built for developers to learn from or copy.

  33. 36

    plasma-ui

    298CruxGarden/plasma-ui · TypeScript

    Plasma UI is a React library for liquid glass panels rendered in WebGL on canvas, inspired by Apple's Liquid Glass design. The panels behave like liquid, fuse with each other on contact, and refract whatever is visible behind them.

  34. 37

    natural-disasters

    287Token-Gremlin/natural-disasters · JavaScript

    ABYSSAL is a fully procedural cinematic ocean and extreme-weather simulation that runs entirely in a browser tab, rendering multi-cascade FFT ocean waves, volumetric clouds, hurricanes and tsunamis with zero external assets, built on Three.js, WebGL2 and GLSL3.

  35. 38

    LinearAbilityExtThreeJS

    214achrefelouafi/LinearAbilityExtThreeJS · JavaScript

    Elemental Sandbox is a skillshot VFX sandbox built with Three.js, Vite and hand-written GLSL, where you arm one of seven elemental abilities, aim it, and fire it with the mouse to watch procedurally generated fire, water, electricity and stone effects play out.

  36. 39

    clay-safari

    183cclank/clay-safari · JavaScript

    Clay Safari is a claymation-style, bilingual (Chinese/English) 3D interactive world for kids: you walk around a savanna built with Three.js and Blender-scripted models, click on 10 clay animals and 7 props, and hear their names and sounds in both languages.

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