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Canvas2D Software Renderer for the Browser

This site should rank for the category it actually serves: Canvas2D software rendering. The library is strongest when people want explicit control over a browser rasterizer instead of WebGL abstractions.

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Pipeline-first design

The renderer walks the scene, sorts draw calls, shades geometry, fills scanlines, and uploads a framebuffer to the canvas. That makes the implementation useful both as a library and as readable graphics code.

  • Scene traversal
  • Painter sort
  • Light baking
  • Scanline rasterization

Why not WebGL?

Because the point here is the opposite set of tradeoffs: readable rendering internals, old-engine constraints, and direct CPU control over how triangles become pixels.

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