Are there any good Javascript graphics libraries?

Question

After staring at this 3D cube and these triangles for a while I started wondering if there's any good reliable Javascript graphics library with basic 3D support.

Any suggestion?

Answer 1

I'm very psyched about Raphaël. I've used it in one project and it works like a charm.

Answer 2

Check out Walter Zorn's library

www.walterzorn.de/en

Answer 3

John Resig's port of the Processing library to Javascript:

http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs

Answer 4

Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery.

Answer 5

The canvas html element may be the best backing and is used as such in many libraries (I know flot and processingjs mentionned by sibblings are using it)

canvas element is the lower API abstraction level you can get, which may be conceptually similar to Cairo or GDI

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_(HTML_element)
• https://developer.mozilla.org/En/HTML:Canvas

Answer 6

Here are a few physics engines written in javascript that have some graphics capabilities.

http://blog.quantumstate.co.uk/javascript-physics-engine.html

http://box2d-js.sourceforge.net/