# Graphics [](https://travis-ci.org/PistonDevelopers/graphics) [](https://crates.io/crates/piston2d-graphics) [](https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/graphics/blob/master/LICENSE)
A library for 2D graphics, written in Rust, that works with multiple back-ends.
Maintainers: @bvssvni, @Coeuvre
[Graphics online docs](http://docs.piston.rs/graphics/graphics/)
*Notice: This is a very early stage of the project!*
[How to contribute](https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/piston/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
*Latest news: Text!*
| [opengl_graphics](https://github.com/pistondevelopers/opengl_graphics) |
| [gfx_graphics](https://github.com/pistondevelopers/gfx_graphics) |
| [glium_graphics](https://github.com/pistondevelopers/glium_graphics) |
Experimental algorithms are developed in a separate repository: [Graphics-Lab](https://github.com/pistondevelopers/graphics-lab)
## Motivation
### Sharing graphics source code across projects in Rust
Rust is programming language developed by Mozilla and the Rust community. It is fast, safe, concurrent and cross platform. Because of the many numbers of potential platforms (read: all kinds of computers), it would be nice to have a 2D graphics library that works with multiple back-ends, so you don't have to invent a new graphics engine for each platform you are working on.
### One trait for all back-ends
To write your own back-end `BackEnd` trait. The `BackEnd` trait implements default behavior for all methods, so it is up to you how much code to write. If it can not find a method, it will call the `unimplemented!` macro.
## Goals
* Easy to use
* Minimal dependencies
* Vector graphics
* Images
* Text
* Clipping
* To have a feature complete library for 2D graphics in general
* Reasonable defaults with resolution detection whenever possible
## Non-Goals
* Image formats
* Backward compability (expect lot of breaking)
* Platform or back-end specific code
* 3D
* Physics
* Node tree
* One-to-one correspondence with standards
* Integration with platform GUI
## Dependencies
