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BobbyAnguelov /

Esoterica

Esoterica: Prototype Game Engine

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b-aaz /

bmake-extravaganza

Mandelbrot set renderer written in pure [BSD] Makefiles

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20#020
WinterSnowfall /

d7vk

D7VK 1.12, a DXVK fork for Direct3D 3-7 on top of Vulkan

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dahan8473 /

snake-and-commits

Snake-and-commits: Turn your GitHub contribution graph into a real game of Snake

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haydenw22 /

DVarr

DVarr, a self-hosted sports DVR built to never miss the end of a game

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libsm64 /

libsm64

Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines

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rwusmm-dc /

4x11Engine

(NEW) Game engine built with AI (4x11Engine) as an experiment

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yagarea /

jektex

Jektex 0.2.0 – A Jekyll plugin for LaTeX rendering is now ~10x faster

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bitofabluetit /

knotreel

1d data to 3D topology, AI deepfakes to protien folding

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sheetmusic4j /

sheetmusic4j

Sheetmusic4j: A JavaFX library for rendering interactive sheet music

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ajensenwaud /

varela

Varela: Neuromancer-inspired 3D self-mutating coding harness

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anrayliu /

pyvidplayer2

Spending 3 years to make video playback in Python a little bit easier

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halidecx /

fmetrics

Fast Perceptual Image and Video Metrics

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vifudotdev /

vifu

Vifu – A runtime and visual workflow for building AI-native games

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Inception3D /

TTT3R

Test-time training 3D reconstruction

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10#034
mstick3 /

brain

Brain – a local-first second brain that turns videos and podcasts into notes

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10#035
cporcellijr /

bookbridge

Sync reading progress between Audiobookshelf and KOReader

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10#036

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