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"Control Level": "Medium (abstractions mask WebGL state)",
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"Importing Models": "Out-of-the-box (glTF, OBJ, FBX loaders)",
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},
{
"name": "stack.gl",
"url": "https://stack.gl/",
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"Control Level": "High (full access to WebGL context)",
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"Ecosystem Status": "Legacy / Fragmented, highly educational"
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"name": "PixiJS",
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"Control Level": "Medium (abstractions for sprites & filters)",
"Performance (2D)": "Extremely High (auto-batching, sprite pools)",
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"Importing Models": "N/A",
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{
"name": "Pex",
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"Control Level": "High (explicit state wrapping & GPU commands)",
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"Performance (3D)": "High (low overhead API wrapper)",
"Importing Models": "Modular loaders (e.g., `pex-gltf`)",
"Ecosystem Status": "Active in creative coding / multimedia"
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{
"name": "Babylon.js",
"url": "https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js",
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"Rendering Model": "3D Entity-Component-like Scene Graph",
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"Control Level": "Medium (heavy engine wrapper)",
"Performance (2D)": "Moderate (via orthographic viewports)",
"Performance (3D)": "Extremely High (rich performance debuggers & WebGPU)",
"Importing Models": "Out-of-the-box (industry standard loaders + sandbox)",
"Ecosystem Status": "Active, robust (backed by Microsoft)"
}
},
{
"name": "Filament",
"url": "https://github.com/google/filament/",
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"Rendering Model": "Entity-Component-System (ECS) & View-based",
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"Control Level": "High (direct memory control, raw material files)",
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"Importing Models": "Native glTF parser (`gltfio` library bindings)",
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{
"name": "SceneJS",
"url": "https://github.com/xeolabs/scenejs",
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"Rendering Model": "Declarative JSON State Nodes Tree",
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"Control Level": "Medium (driven strictly by JSON nodes)",
"Performance (2D)": "Low (not built for 2D sprites)",
"Performance (3D)": "Moderate (older optimization patterns, high CPU overhead)",
"Importing Models": "JSON geometry structures",
"Ecosystem Status": "Legacy / Archived (historically significant)"
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{
"name": "Zymatica-3D",
"url": "https://github.com/TheAiCollectiveART/zymatica-3d",
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"Control Level": "High (unlocked GPU context buffers)",
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"Importing Models": "Out-of-the-box (glTF 2.0 native)",
"Ecosystem Status": "Active, cutting-edge"
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{
"name": "ClayGL",
"url": "https://github.com/pissang/claygl",
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"Primary Dimension": "3D (Data Visualization & Scalable Web3D)",
"Philosophy": "Scalable, Modern & High-Performance",
"Rendering Model": "3D Scene Graph (`Scene` / `Node`)",
"Ease of Use": "High (intuitive Application abstraction)",
"Control Level": "Medium-High (modular with direct shader/geometry APIs)",
"Performance (2D)": "Moderate",
"Performance (3D)": "High (highly optimized shader pipeline, built for WebGL 2)",
"Importing Models": "Out-of-the-box glTF support",
"Ecosystem Status": "Active/Stable (used heavily in Apache ECharts 3D)"
}
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{
"name": "AwayJS",
"url": "https://github.com/awayjs/awayjs-full",
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"Primary Dimension": "3D & 2D (Flash migration)",
"Philosophy": "Flash/Stage3D emulation in JS/TS",
"Rendering Model": "Stage3D-like Display Hierarchy",
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"Control Level": "Medium (wrapped around Stage3D/DisplayObject state)",
"Performance (2D)": "High (optimized Flash Display List recreation)",
"Performance (3D)": "Moderate-High (similar to native Stage3D limits)",
"Importing Models": "AWD, OBJ, MD5, and Flash SWF vector assets",
"Ecosystem Status": "Active/Legacy (mainly used for legacy Flash/Stage3D migration)"
}
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{
"name": "PlayCanvas",
"url": "https://github.com/playcanvas/engine",
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"Primary Dimension": "3D (High-performance web games)",
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"Control Level": "Medium-High (flexible script extensions)",
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"Performance (3D)": "Outstanding (lightweight runtime, WebGPU support)",
"Importing Models": "Native glTF loaders & editor asset converter",
"Ecosystem Status": "Dominant in web games, actively maintained"
}
},
{
"name": "Turbulenz",
"url": "https://github.com/turbulenz/turbulenz_engine",
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"Primary Dimension": "3D & 2D (Scalable Game Engine)",
"Philosophy": "Ultra-performance, Modular TS/JS",
"Rendering Model": "Device/Viewport low-level Renderer",
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"Control Level": "High (direct access to custom WebGL device caches)",
"Performance (2D)": "High (includes custom 2D canvas draw devices)",
"Performance (3D)": "Outstanding (hardware-squeezing optimizations)",
"Importing Models": "JSON engine geometry & asset pipelines",
"Ecosystem Status": "Legacy / Archived (historically important)"
}
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{
"name": "Hilo3d",
"url": "https://github.com/hiloteam/Hilo3d",
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"Primary Dimension": "3D (Mobile WebGL campaigns)",
"Philosophy": "Mobile-First, High-Performance, Compact",
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"Ease of Use": "High (clean API)",
"Control Level": "Medium (clean stage wrapper)",
"Performance (2D)": "Moderate",
"Performance (3D)": "High (tailored for low-latency rendering on mobile GPUs)",
"Importing Models": "Robust glTF and asset parser tools",
"Ecosystem Status": "Stable (backed and used heavily in mobile apps at Alibaba)"
}
},
{
"name": "litescene.js",
"url": "https://github.com/jagenjo/litescene.js",
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"Primary Dimension": "3D (Editor-integrated Graphics)",
"Philosophy": "Component-Based WYSIWYG Engine",
"Rendering Model": "Component-based Scene Graph (`SceneNode`)",
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"Control Level": "Medium-High (extensible node components + script nodes)",
"Performance (2D)": "N/A",
"Performance (3D)": "High (supports deferred shading, light pre-passes)",
"Importing Models": "Native DAE (Collada), OBJ parsing, serializer",
"Ecosystem Status": "Legacy / Archived (historically significant)"
}
},
{
"name": "regl",
"url": "https://github.com/regl-project/regl",
"attributes": {
"Primary Dimension": "N/A (Functional WebGL wrapper)",
"Philosophy": "Functional, Declarative, Minimal",
"Rendering Model": "Declarative functional GPU draw commands",
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"Control Level": "Extremely High (exposes full WebGL state keys)",
"Performance (2D)": "Extremely High (zero overhead wrapper)",
"Performance (3D)": "Extremely High (zero-overhead caching of WebGL states)",
"Importing Models": "Manual parsing required",
"Ecosystem Status": "Stable, widely used in data-vis & shader art"
}
},
{
"name": "TWGL",
"url": "https://github.com/greggman/twgl.js",
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"Primary Dimension": "N/A (Tiny WebGL helper)",
"Philosophy": "Direct Raw WebGL helper",
"Rendering Model": "Raw WebGL API (enhanced helper abstractions)",
"Ease of Use": "Medium-High (makes raw WebGL easy, retains raw control)",
"Control Level": "Max (you are writing raw WebGL with shortcuts)",
"Performance (2D)": "Extremely High (native calls compiled directly)",
"Performance (3D)": "Extremely High (native calls compiled directly)",
"Importing Models": "Manual parsing required (creates buffer arrays easily)",
"Ecosystem Status": "Stable, widely used in custom graphics engines & shaders"
}
},
{
"name": "Four",
"url": "https://github.com/allotrop3/four",
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"Primary Dimension": "3D (Low-level wrapper)",
"Philosophy": "Intermediate WebGL wrapper",
"Rendering Model": "Command-free custom buffer bindings",
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"Control Level": "High (provides lightweight rendering pipelines)",
"Performance (2D)": "Moderate",
"Performance (3D)": "High (lightweight wrapper, direct compilation)",
"Importing Models": "Manual parsing required",
"Ecosystem Status": "Legacy / Archived (WebGL 1.0 era)"
}
},
{
"name": "TDL",
"url": "https://github.com/greggman/tdl",
"attributes": {
"Primary Dimension": "N/A (Low-level WebGL helper)",
"Philosophy": "WebGL helper (precursor to TWGL)",
"Rendering Model": "Raw WebGL API (light program/buffer helper)",
"Ease of Use": "Low-Medium (heavy boilerplate compared to TWGL)",
"Control Level": "Max (direct raw WebGL execution wrapper)",
"Performance (2D)": "Extremely High",
"Performance (3D)": "Extremely High",
"Importing Models": "Manual parsing required",
"Ecosystem Status": "Legacy / Archived (completely superseded by TWGL)"
}
},
{
"name": "KickJS",
"url": "https://github.com/mortennobel/KickJS",
"attributes": {
"Primary Dimension": "3D (Extensible Game Engine)",
"Philosophy": "Component-Based WebGL Engine",
"Rendering Model": "Entity-Component Game Object structure",
"Ease of Use": "Medium-High (intuitive Unity-like component APIs)",
"Control Level": "Medium (driven through game objects and renderer nodes)",
"Performance (2D)": "Moderate",
"Performance (3D)": "High (supports shadow maps, skeletal animations)",
"Importing Models": "Custom JSON mesh serializer and shader files",
"Ecosystem Status": "Legacy / Archived (WebGL 1.0 era game engine)"
}
},
{
"name": "nanogl",
"url": "https://github.com/plepers/nanogl",
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"Primary Dimension": "N/A (WebGL micro-framework)",
"Philosophy": "Modular, Un-opinionated Micro-helpers",
"Rendering Model": "Raw WebGL API (lightweight class wrappers)",
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"Control Level": "Extremely High (raw WebGL access through wrappers)",
"Performance (2D)": "Extremely High (zero framework overhead)",
"Performance (3D)": "Extremely High (optimized and extremely lightweight)",
"Importing Models": "Manual parsing required (integrates with custom loaders)",
"Ecosystem Status": "Active/Stable (heavily used in portfolios)"
}
},
{
"name": "Alfrid",
"url": "https://github.com/yiwenl/Alfrid",
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"Primary Dimension": "N/A (WebGL 2 tool set)",
"Philosophy": "WebGL 2 wrappers for shader art",
"Rendering Model": "Raw WebGL 2 API (thin wrapper classes)",
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"Control Level": "Extremely High (wraps raw WebGL 2 context directly)",
"Performance (2D)": "Extremely High",
"Performance (3D)": "Extremely High (zero framework overhead, WebGL 2 optimized)",
"Importing Models": "Manual parsing required",
"Ecosystem Status": "Active/Stable (hugely popular in experimental creative coding)"
}
},
{
"name": "Medium",
"url": "https://github.com/davidpaulrosser/medium",
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"Primary Dimension": "N/A (WebGL 2 tool set)",
"Philosophy": "Progressive WebGL 2 toolkit",
"Rendering Model": "Raw WebGL 2 API (thin ES6 wrappers)",
"Ease of Use": "Medium (clean TS wrappers for attributes and pipelines)",
"Control Level": "Extremely High (wraps WebGL 2 context directly)",
"Performance (2D)": "Extremely High",
"Performance (3D)": "Extremely High (optimized wrappers, TS compiled)",
"Importing Models": "Manual parsing required",
"Ecosystem Status": "Legacy / Archived (historically interesting WebGL 2 wrapper)"
}
},
{
"name": "PicoGL.js",
"url": "https://github.com/tsherif/picogl.js",
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"Primary Dimension": "N/A (WebGL 2 only library)",
"Philosophy": "Minimal, WebGL 2 GPGPU-focused",
"Rendering Model": "Direct WebGL 2 draw calls & feedbacks",
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"Control Level": "Extremely High (unlocked WebGL 2 context + GPGPU)",
"Performance (2D)": "Extremely High",
"Performance (3D)": "Extremely High (highly efficient WebGL 2 mapping)",
"Importing Models": "Manual parsing required",
"Ecosystem Status": "Active/Stable (popular for custom WebGL 2 / GPGPU render pipelines)"
}
},
{
"name": "mini-webgl",
"url": "https://github.com/jsantell/mini-webgl",
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"Primary Dimension": "3D (with 2D capabilities)",
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"Control Level": "High (unoptimized, direct code execution)",
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"Importing Models": "Manual parsing required (provides Basic shapes)",
"Ecosystem Status": "Legacy / Educational (inactive)"
}
},
{
"name": "phenomenon-px",
"url": "https://github.com/vaneenige/phenomenon-px",
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"Primary Dimension": "N/A (Pixel shaders only)",
"Philosophy": "Minimalist pixel shader runner (~2kB)",
"Rendering Model": "Fullscreen quad frag shading (render callback)",
"Ease of Use": "Very High (simplest way to run pixel shaders)",
"Control Level": "High (direct GLSL fragment shader editing)",
"Performance (2D)": "Extremely High (screenspace pixel rendering)",
"Performance (3D)": "N/A",
"Importing Models": "N/A",
"Ecosystem Status": "Stable / Niche (archived/inactive)"
}
},
{
"name": "zen-3d",
"url": "https://github.com/shawn0326/zen-3d",
"attributes": {
"Primary Dimension": "3D (with 2D capabilities)",
"Philosophy": "Lightweight, performance-oriented three.js alternative",
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"Control Level": "Medium-High (lightweight wrappers, easy custom passes)",
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"Performance (3D)": "High (lightweight engine, minimal CPU state overhead)",
"Importing Models": "Out-of-the-box (gltf, obj loaders in extensions)",
"Ecosystem Status": "Active (widely known as `t3d.js` in modern dev)"
}
},
{
"name": "GLOW",
"url": "https://github.com/empaempa/GLOW",
"attributes": {
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"Philosophy": "Object-oriented shader and context wrapper",
"Rendering Model": "Direct shaders & context wrapper",
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"Control Level": "Extremely High (direct GPU shader inputs control)",
"Performance (2D)": "Extremely High (zero framework overhead)",
"Performance (3D)": "Extremely High",
"Importing Models": "Manual parsing required",
"Ecosystem Status": "Legacy / Archived (historical WebGL 1.0 helper)"
}
},
{
"name": "helixjs",
"url": "https://github.com/DerSchmale/helixjs",
"attributes": {
"Primary Dimension": "3D (Game Engine)",
"Philosophy": "Modular ECS game engine with strict materials",
"Rendering Model": "Entity-Component-System (ECS) & HDR Pipeline",
"Ease of Use": "Medium (strict material design & ECS system setup)",
"Control Level": "Medium (abstracted pipelines/post-processing)",
"Performance (2D)": "Moderate",
"Performance (3D)": "High (optimized WebGL 2 HDR renderer)",
"Importing Models": "Out-of-the-box (`helix-io` loaders)",
"Ecosystem Status": "Legacy / Inactive (archived personal project)"
}
},
{
"name": "GrimoireJS",
"url": "https://github.com/GrimoireGL/GrimoireJS",
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"Primary Dimension": "3D (Web-oriented)",
"Philosophy": "XML/GOML-driven DOM-like 3D rendering",
"Rendering Model": "Component-oriented scene tree via GOML XML",
"Ease of Use": "Very High (familiar XML markup for web developers)",
"Control Level": "Low-Medium (XML abstracted; requires custom JS component writing)",
"Performance (2D)": "Moderate",
"Performance (3D)": "High (optimized node-state cache compiler)",
"Importing Models": "Out-of-the-box (via `grimoirejs-gltf` plugins)",
"Ecosystem Status": "Legacy / Inactive"
}
},
{
"name": "litegl.js",
"url": "https://github.com/jagenjo/litegl.js",
"attributes": {
"Primary Dimension": "3D (with 2D capabilities)",
"Philosophy": "Direct OOP GPU buffer/shader wrapper",
"Rendering Model": "Direct WebGL entity abstraction classes (Mesh, Shader)",
"Ease of Use": "Medium-High (easy OOP wrappers, requires GL context knowledge)",
"Control Level": "Extremely High (thin direct buffers and shader program manipulation)",
"Performance (2D)": "Extremely High (direct buffer manipulation)",
"Performance (3D)": "Extremely High",
"Importing Models": "Modular (helper parsers for OBJ files)",
"Ecosystem Status": "Active / Stable (underpins WebGLStudio & Rendeer)"
}
},
{
"name": "CraZyPG",
"url": "https://github.com/PrincessGod/CraZyPG",
"attributes": {
"Primary Dimension": "N/A (WebGL 2.0 helper wrapper)",
"Philosophy": "Low-level WebGL 2.0 helper/loader",
"Rendering Model": "Raw WebGL 2.0 context with loader adapters",
"Ease of Use": "Low-Medium (low-level helpers)",
"Control Level": "Extremely High (close to raw WebGL 2.0)",
"Performance (2D)": "High",
"Performance (3D)": "High (direct WebGL 2 execution)",
"Importing Models": "Out-of-the-box (built-in GLTFLoader.js for WebGL 2)",
"Ecosystem Status": "Legacy / Inactive"
}
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{
"name": "GLBoost",
"url": "https://github.com/emadurandal/GLBoost",
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"Primary Dimension": "3D (Render pipeline library)",
"Philosophy": "Balance high-level usability & low-level control",
"Rendering Model": "Scene Graph and Custom Render Pass / Expression",
"Ease of Use": "High (classic material helpers, convenient loops)",
"Control Level": "Medium-High (can override custom shaders cleanly)",
"Performance (2D)": "Moderate-High",
"Performance (3D)": "High",
"Importing Models": "Out-of-the-box (glTF 1.0/2.0 and OBJ loaders)",
"Ecosystem Status": "Legacy / Deprecated (superseded by new standards)"
}
},
{
"name": "redcube",
"url": "https://github.com/Reon90/redcube",
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"Philosophy": "Minimalist glTF 2.0 WebGL2/WebGPU renderer",
"Rendering Model": "Direct glTF 2.0 model rendering",
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"Control Level": "Low-Medium (focuses on parsing/rendering glTF scene graph)",
"Performance (2D)": "N/A",
"Performance (3D)": "Extremely High (optimized glTF drawing & WebGL2/WebGPU)",
"Importing Models": "Out-of-the-box (purpose-built glTF 2.0 viewer)",
"Ecosystem Status": "Active (supports WebGL2 & modern WebGPU)"
}
},
{
"name": "RedGL2",
"url": "https://github.com/redcamel/RedGL2",
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"Rendering Model": "View / Scene / Camera controller hierarchy",
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"Control Level": "Medium-High (rich engine framework with context tools)",
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"Performance (3D)": "Extremely High (PBR/glTF optimizations, state cachers)",
"Importing Models": "Out-of-the-box (comprehensive glTF loader)",
"Ecosystem Status": "Active / Stable (highly popular Korean WebGL engine)"
}
},
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"name": "lightgl.js",
"url": "https://github.com/evanw/lightgl.js",
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},
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},
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"Importing Models": "Out-of-the-box (osgjs json parsing loaders)",
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"Importing Models": "N/A",
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