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The FOX toolkit is an open source, cross-platform widget toolkit, that is, a library of basic elements for building a graphical user interface (GUI). FOX stands for Free Objects for X.

FOX differentiates itself in the following way from other cross-platform toolkits: Tk is a cross-platform toolkit but does not have all of the widgets that FOX considers desirable. Qt had a different licensing model, which might have required a commercial license in some cases where FOX would not. (This is no longer the case starting with Qt 4.5.) wxWidgets promotes the use of native widgets on each supported platform. FLTK is a fast, low-footprint library that supports rapid application development, and requires less code to use, but lacks advanced widgets. All of these toolkits have some support for programming natively on Mac OS and/or Mac OS X platforms, which FOX currently does not support[

ABOUT Slut is a programming framework for generative, synthetic, interactive, network-enabled graphics. Slut generates images from processes. Such processes may be simple "construction plans" or they may depend on user input. They may be drawn from incoming network data or messages that are sent to the network. Produced images may be adaptive, accumulative or static. They may look and feel like computer games or they may inform like scientific visualizations. They may be lyrical, cynical, political, intrusive (literally over the network), simply beautiful or banal.

The Python Computer Graphics Kit is an Open Source software package containing a collection of Python modules, plugins and utilities that are meant to be useful for any domain where you have to deal with 3D data of any kind, be it for visualization, creating photorealistic images, Virtual Reality or even games.

Provides access to specialized input hardware such as SpaceMouse/SpaceBall, data glove or tablet via wrappers around the 3DxWare SDK by 3Dconnexion, the Wintab Developer Kit by LCS/Telegraphics and the Data Glove SDK by Fifth Dimension Technologies.

PyX is a Python package for the creation of PostScript and PDF files. It combines an abstraction of the PostScript drawing model with a TeX/LaTeX interface. Complex tasks like 2d and 3d plots in publication-ready quality are built out of these primitives.

The central component of any game, from a programming standpoint, is the game loop. The game loop allows the game to run smoothly regardless of a user's input or lack thereof. Most traditional software programs respond to user input and do nothing without it. For example, a word processor formats words and text as a user types. If the user doesn't type anything, the word processor does nothing. Some functions may take a long time to complete, but all are initiated by a user telling the program to do something. Games, on the other hand, must continue to operate regardless of a user's input. The game loop allows this. A highly simplified game loop, in pseudocode, might look something like this: while( user doesn't exit ) check for user input run AI move enemies resolve collisions draw graphics play sounds end while