MinGfx Toolkit Documentation

Getting Started

1. libMinGfx Installation Guide
2. Create Your Own Graphics Program by Copying an Example
3. Bookmark the API - The MinGfx Programming Reference Organized by Topic

Programming Guide

• MinGfx Programming Reference
• Adding NanoGUI Elements (buttons, sliders, other GUI widgets)
  • NanoGUI Documentation
  • NanoGUI GitHub Repo
• Drawing Using NanoVG (for 2D vector graphics)
  • NanoVG Documentation
  • nanovg.h – the best place to see all the possible commands
• Drawing Using OpenGL (for 3D graphics)
  • learnopengl.com
  • Google for OpenGL 3.3 Guide

Overview

The MinGfx Toolkit is a minimal library for writing cross-platform (Windows, OSX, linux) graphics programs with modern OpenGL 3.3+ support. Application programmers should subclass from MinGfx::GraphicsApp, which provides callbacks for several styles of rendering and user interfaces. On-screen graphical user interfaces can be created with built-in support for NanoGUI. 2D vector graphics rendering is supported by linking with NanoVG. 3D graphics rendering is supported via MinGfx::Mesh, MinGfx::Shader, MinGfx::Texture2D, and related classes. Additionally, application programmers can do whatever custom 2D or 3D rendering is needed with direct calls to OpenGL.

The library is maintained by Prof. Daniel Keefe (dfk@u.nosp@m.mn.e.nosp@m.du) and is used for instructional purposes in UMN computer science courses (CSci-4611, CSci-3081W, ...) as well as some research projects. See LICENSE.txt for additional details.