NetGL is an open-source .NET 3D visualization engine for your WPF and Windows Forms applications based on OpenGL.
Here you can find source code and samples for NetGL and general 3D and linear algebra algorithms.
NetGL has its own OpenGL bindings and doesn't use 3rd party like OpenTK or SharpGL, so library is lightweight, easy to extend, completely open-source, all on C#, has no deprecated OpenGL bindings. Library is not just a thin OpenGL bindings wrapper, but full-featured 3D engine with animations support, visual three constructor (debugger) application, mouse-picking functionality, off-screen rendering, visual three serialization (in dev), unmanaged resources GC (details below). You don't need to have deep understanding of OpenGL infrastructure to display and interact with 3D objects using NetGL.
To display a simple sphere on scene you just need to write this code:
#!c#
var cameraSO = new SceneObject(Scene, "main camera"); //scene object that will host Camera and CameraManipulator components
cameraSO.AddComponent<Camera>(); //adding Camera to scene
cameraSO.AddComponent<CameraManipulator>(); //adding manipulator so you can control camera with (W, A, S, D and mouse Mid) around the scene.
var sphereSO = new SceneObject(Scene, "spheres"); //scene object that will host sphere mesh renderer component
sphereSO.Transform.WorldPosition = new Vector3(0, 0, -1); //position object in world space
var renderer = sphereSO.AddComponent<MeshRenderable>(); //adding component that can render 3D meshes
var mesh = Icosahedron.Create(0.05f, 3); //generating Icosahedron mesh (sphere)
renderer.Mesh = mesh; //assigning mesh to renderer
var lightSO = new SceneObject(Scene, "light0"); //scene object for light source component hosting
lightSO.Transform.WorldPosition = new Vector3(0, 0, -0.5f); //setting its position
lightSO.AddComponent<LightSource>(); //adding lightsource component
Code above will result in:
It's only 11 lines of code! You can compare how it could be with raw OpenGL rendering: Click!
You can see some more demos:
[https://youtu.be/UHOJJLD2pyo](compute shaders)
[https://youtu.be/mEoBmfYrggE](earth demo)
NetGL is now abandoned for many years :(