Intro

Imagic is a thin rendering framework, powered by Rust and WGPU.

The name 'Imagic' comes from words 'image' and 'magic'. Initially, I intended to implement an image processing library accelerated with GPU. In fact, I previously created a repository named "imagetoy" locally also powered by Rust and WGPU. I believe Rust and WGPU can do more interesting things beyond just image processing, so I create 'imagic' which provides some basic infrastructures to help me and others deal with more complicated and imaginative things.

For the moment, Imagic is at the startup stage, which supports only a few features:

• Physically Based Rendering (PBR) with only direct lighting
• custom shader
• integrated UI framework powered by EGUI

Imagic has two repositories:

• Imagic-gitee
• Imagic-github

Supported platform

• Windows
• Linux
• MacOS

In theory, it will be easy to support Android, iOS and Web, thanks to Rust and WGPU. I will complete this some day.

Examples

• PBR with only direct lighting

cargo run --example pbr

• Custom shader & UI

cargo run --example full_screnn

To do list

• Compete PBR with Imaged Based Lighting
• Improve scene object management. Maybe ECS is a good candidate
• Compute shader
• More rendering feature and effects, for example:
  • Water
  • SSS
  • Image Processing
  • Terrain generation

Usefull links:

• learnopengl.com
• Digital Signal Processing