kristaq77/kross

Kross is a header-only software rasterizer written in C, meaning it draws 2D and 3D shapes onto the screen using ordinary CPU code rather than relying on a graphics card to do the heavy lifting. The README describes it as the result of the author's one year, self-described painful journey learning C and computer graphics, and it comes with a small math library, tools for manipulating color, procedural noise generation, and basic drawing primitives. What sets this project apart is its purpose: it is written to be read and learned from rather than to run fast. The author warns plainly that it may run as slowly as 60 seconds per frame instead of 60 frames per second, and the code is described as very heavily commented, with the kind of explanations the author wishes they had found when they were starting out. In that sense it works more like a teaching resource than a production graphics engine. The project is developed and tested on Arch Linux and uses OpenGL 1.1 purely to present the finished image to the screen, so it should also run on Windows. The README includes several example screenshots, showing a Snake game, a Pong game, a Bezier curve simulation, an RGB triangle, and a barycentric coordinate demo, all rendered using the rasterizer. The author states this is a personal project and explicitly does not accept outside contributions. The README also notes that the project is dedicated to God and Orthodox Christianity as a personal expression of thanks from the author. Anyone interested in this repository should read it for the code and comments themselves rather than expect ongoing collaboration or support.