This Project Created By FaceBook Is Amazing

Welcome back! FaceBook is a very large (and controversial) company, one of the coolest things FaceBook actually does is creating a bunch of tools that are available to the public! So, let’s take a look at the Intermediate Graphics Library (IGL) library! It’s a library that allows us to create graphics by utilizing the GPU of our machines! Here is a link to their GitHub page below:

GitHub - facebook/igl: Intermediate Graphics Library (IGL) is a cross-platform library that…

This specific project allows us to support multiple backends with a common interface, it’s low level, has minimal overhead (by using C++), and is able to scale in production! Here are the current rendering backends that are supported:

It also is supported by a majority of the popular platforms right now: