C++ Graphic Drawing Library

c++ drawing
Andrei picture Andrei · Oct 22, 2009 · Viewed 47.8k times · Source

Does anyone know what's the best graphic drawing library for C++, I want a lib that can draw basic shapes and can make image editing, gradients and vector or 3D would be great to.

The windows drawing functions are complicated and are not very advanced.

Answer

LiraNuna picture LiraNuna · Oct 23, 2009

May I suggest using Cairo?

This vector library is very fast, verbose and powerful! Just look at those pretty examples!

There's even integration with OpenGL if you need vectorized 3D textures!

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