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Filament is a real-time physically based rendering engine for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, and WebGL2

18 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 3 stories, 15 comments · first 2018-08-03 · latest 2026-09-21

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  1. …project, some other projects are not, even if it is on github.com/google A random example E.g https://github.com/google/filament#disclaimer This is not an officially supported Google product.
    comment by yla92 · 2026-09-21 · in AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
  2. There's also https://github.com/google/filament
    comment by prideout · 2026-09-10 · in Show HN: Filament – Fast data movement engine in Go
  3. It does look like Filament has a web target: https://github.com/google/filament but if they're targeting embedded systems, maybe they haven't prioritized a public web demo yet. If the bulk of the project is actually in C++, making a web…
    comment by bsimpson · 2026-02-11 · in Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
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    Show HN: Thermion, an open source 3D rendering toolkit for Flutter and/or Dart
    story by nmfisher · 2024-06-28 · 25 comments
  5. How does this compare to Google's filament? [0] [0]: https://github.com/google/filament
    comment by max_ · 2023-07-07 · in Meta releases Intermediate Graphics Library
  6. Anyone know much about how this compares to Filament by Google? https://github.com/google/filament
    comment by stucotso · 2023-04-17 · in Appleseed – open-source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine
  7. …and real-time physically based renderer Filament https://github.com/google/oboe/tree/master/samples https://github.com/google/filament/tree/main/samples Best of Luck ;)
    comment by ArtWomb · 2021-05-01 · in Ask HN: What are some of must have skills for a Mobile App Developer in 2021?
  8. …a real-time physically based rendering engine for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, and WebGL2 - https://github.com/google/filament
    comment by matesz · 2021-04-01 · in Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI
  9. Wait, Filament is on life support? There is activity there: https://github.com/google/filament/graphs/contributors https://github.com/google/filament/releases
    comment by bhouston · 2020-12-02 · in Google Poly is shutting down
  10. https://github.com/google/filament and ThreeJS are probably the closest
    comment by typedef_struct · 2020-11-06 · in Ray Tracer Sandbox in Vulkan
  11. …glance. Also AFAIK, to dabble with the web version, just download filament-*web.tgz file here: https://github.com/google/filament/releases , this contains a .wasm and .js file you can copy into your project (and soon this will most likely…
    comment by flohofwoe · 2018-11-03 · in Filament (3D renderer from Google) for the Web
  12. Some samples from repo: https://github.com/google/filament
    comment by markdog12 · 2018-11-02 · in Filament and WASM: Physically-based rendering for web
  13. …documentation, here are a few links for you :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17684286 https://github.com/google/filament https://google.github.io/filament/Filament.md.html https://google.github.io/filament/Materials.md.html
    comment by corysama · 2018-11-02 · in Filament and WASM: Physically-based rendering for web
  14. …documentation, here are a few links for you :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17684286 https://github.com/google/filament https://google.github.io/filament/Filament.md.html https://google.github.io/filament/Materials.md.html
    comment by corysama · 2018-11-02 · in Filament (3D renderer from Google) for the Web
  15. …the guys that drove most of Android rendering stack. Romain Guy's team recently released Filament, https://github.com/google/filament Back in the Sun days, Romain had a blog about writing nice looking Java UIs, which eventually lead to the…
    comment by pjmlp · 2018-09-26 · in Java 11 released
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    Google/filament: Filament is a physically based rendering engine
    story by axiomdata316 · 2018-08-05 · 0 comments
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    Physically Based Rendering Engine for Android, Windows, Linux and MacOS
    story by pathompong · 2018-08-04 · 0 comments
  18. The actual code: https://github.com/google/filament Additional docs on their material system: https://google.github.io/filament//Materials.md.html https://google.github.io/filament/Material%20Properties.pdf Also, I'll plug…
    comment by corysama · 2018-08-03 · in Filament: Physically-based rendering engine