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Category: Graphics

3D Illustration

11 Best Free and Open Source Ray Tracing Software

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

Ray tracing is a technique for modeling light transport for use in a wide variety of rendering algorithms for generating digital images.

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Classroom Tools

Drawy – brainstorming tool

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Graphics, GUI

Drawy is a work-in-progress infinite whiteboard tool which aims to be a native-desktop alternative to the web-based Excalidraw.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: asciify – turn images into attractive ASCII art

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

asciify is a CLI tool that converts images into ASCII art. It’s part of our Linux Candy series.

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Alaska

ImPPG – image post-processor

January 22, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

ImPPG performs Lucy-Richardson deconvolution, unsharp masking, brightness normalization and tone curve adjustment.

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Screen Capture

HyprSnipper – snipping tool for Hyprland

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

HyprSnipper is a Qt-based screenshot tool designed specifically for Hyprland. It’s written in Python.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Fractal Art – desktop wallpaper generator

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

Fractal Art is software which generates colorful wallpapers. It’s free and open source software written in Haskell.

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Screen Capture

hyprsnap – script-based screenshot utility

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

hyprsnap is a unified, script-based screenshot utility designed specifically for the Wayland/Hyprland environment.

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Alaska

fotocx – image editing and collection management

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Fotocx is a Linux program for editing photos or other images and managing a large collection.

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Vector Graphics

BinVec – convert raster graphics into vector graphics

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

BinVec is a graphical program that converts raster graphics into vector graphics with real-time previews.

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Painting tools

Brushshe – painting app

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Brushshe is a simple and user-friendly raster graphics editor. This is cross-platform software running under Linux and Windows.

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Alaska

simagef – find similar images

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

simagef finds similar images. It takes a list of image paths and returns either groups or pairs of images that are similar.

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clrsync – color scheme manager

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, GUI

clrsync allows to define color palettes once and apply them consistently to all configurable applications.

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Albania

PixelTerm-C – terminal image viewer

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

PixelTerm-C is a high-performance terminal image browser written in C, based on the Chafa library.

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Screen Capture

termframe – terminal output SVG screenshot tool

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

This tool is a non-interactive terminal emulator that executes a single command, renders its output in an internal virtual session, and exports a screenshot as an SVG file.

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Image showing an example of pixel artwork

Rusticon – favicon editor

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

Rusticon is a mouse driven SVG favicon editor for your terminal.

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Colorway – generate color pairings

December 20, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Colorway is a GUI tool that generates color pairings.

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Famous Landmarks

Image Normalizer – batch-processing tool that resizes and compresses images

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Image Normalizer is a cross-platform command-line batch-processing tool that resizes and compresses images.

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Albania

mcat – extended cat command

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Utilities

mcat is a terminal image, video and Markdown viewer. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Screen Capture

lqth – screenshot utility

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lqth is a simple but fast screenshot utility inspired by xscreenshot and follows the suckless philosophy. It supports X only (no Wayland support).

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New York

lukaj – interactive diff tool for SVG images

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lukaj is an interactive diff tool for SVG images written in Rust.

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