Crate embedded_graphics

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This crate aims to make drawing 2D graphics primitives super easy. It currently supports the following built in items:

Additional functionality provided by external crates:

If you know of a crate that is not in this list, please open an issue.

Note that some of these crates may not support the latest version of embedded-graphics.

You can also add your own objects by implementing Drawable on them. Additionally, all iterators over pixels (Iterator<Item = Pixel<C>>) have a default Drawable implementation already created.

A core goal of embedded-graphics is to draw graphics without using any buffers; the crate is no_std compatible and works without a dynamic memory allocator, and without pre-allocating large chunks of memory. To achieve this, it takes an Iterator based approach, where pixel values and positions are calculated on the fly, with the minimum of saved state. This allows the consuming application to use far less RAM at little to no performance penalty.

Supported displays

These are just some of the displays the community has added embedded_graphics support to. This list is taken from the dependent crates list on crates.io so might be missing some unpublished entries. Please open an issue if there’s a display driver that should be added to this list.

Note that some drivers may not support the latest version of embedded-graphics.

embedded-graphics-web-simulator: Simulated display in your browser via Webassembly
epd-waveshare Driver for various ePaper displays (EPD) from Waveshare
hub75: A rust driver for hub75 rgb matrix displays
ili9341: A platform agnostic driver to interface with the ILI9341 (and ILI9340C) TFT LCD display
ls010b7dh01: A platform agnostic driver for the LS010B7DH01 memory LCD display
sh1106: I2C driver for the SH1106 OLED display
ssd1306: I2C and SPI (4 wire) driver for the SSD1306 OLED display
ssd1322: Pure Rust driver for the SSD1322 OLED display chip
ssd1331: SPI (4 wire) driver for the SSD1331 OLED display
ssd1351: SSD1351 driver
ssd1675: Rust driver for the Solomon Systech SSD1675 e-Paper display (EPD) controller
st7735-lcd: Rust library for displays using the ST7735 driver
st7920: ST7920 LCD driver in Rust

Simulator

Embedded graphics comes with a simulator!

It can display all sorts of embedded-graphics test code.

Take a look at the simulator examples to see what embedded_graphics can do, and how it might look on a display. You can run the examples like this:

git clone https://github.com/jamwaffles/embedded-graphics.git
cd embedded-graphics

cargo run -p embedded-graphics-simulator --example hello

Crate features

Add these to your Cargo.toml to turn on extra bits of functionality.

nalgebra_support - use the Nalgebra crate with no_std support to enable conversions from nalgebra::Vector2 to Point and Size.

Implementing `embedded_graphics` in a driver

To add support for embedded_graphics to a display driver, DrawTarget should be implemented. This allows all embedded_graphics objects to be rendered by the display. See the DrawTarget documentation for implementation details.

Examples

Draw a circle and some text

This example uses the Circle primitive and the Font6x8 font to draw a filled circle and some text over it on the screen.

use embedded_graphics::{
    fonts::{Font6x8, Text},
    mock_display::MockDisplay,
    pixelcolor::Rgb565,
    prelude::*,
    primitives::Circle,
    style::{PrimitiveStyle, TextStyle},
};

// Create a draw target using the builtin MockDisplay. In real applications this would be
// replaced by a draw target that is provided by a display driver crate.
let mut display = MockDisplay::default();

let c = Circle::new(Point::new(20, 20), 8).into_styled(PrimitiveStyle::with_fill(Rgb565::RED));
let t = Text::new("Hello Rust!", Point::new(20, 16))
    .into_styled(TextStyle::new(Font6x8, Rgb565::GREEN));

c.draw(&mut display)?;
t.draw(&mut display)?;

Draw a circle and some text

To make life even easier, some handy macros are provided for drawing styled primitives and text. Converting the example above, we get this:

use embedded_graphics::{
    egcircle, egtext, fonts::Font6x8, mock_display::MockDisplay, pixelcolor::Rgb565,
    prelude::*, primitive_style, text_style,
};

// Create a draw target using the builtin MockDisplay. In real applications this would be
// replaced by a draw target that is provided by a display driver crate.
let mut display = MockDisplay::default();

let c = egcircle!(
    center = (20, 20),
    radius = 8,
    style = primitive_style!(fill_color = Rgb565::RED)
);
let t = egtext!(
    text = "Hello Rust!",
    top_left = (20, 16),
    style = text_style!(font = Font6x8, text_color = Rgb565::GREEN)
);

c.draw(&mut display)?;
t.draw(&mut display)?;

Chaining

Items can be chained to build more complex graphics objects.

use embedded_graphics::{
    egcircle, egrectangle, egtext, fonts::Font6x8, mock_display::MockDisplay,
    pixelcolor::Rgb565, prelude::*, primitive_style, text_style,
};

// Create a draw target using the builtin MockDisplay. In real applications this would be
// replaced by a draw target that is provided by a display driver crate.
let mut display: MockDisplay<Rgb565> = MockDisplay::default();

fn build_thing(text: &'static str) -> impl Iterator<Item = Pixel<Rgb565>> {
    egrectangle!(top_left = (0, 0), bottom_right = (40, 40))
        .into_iter()
        .chain(&egcircle!(
            center = (20, 20),
            radius = 8,
            style = primitive_style!(fill_color = Rgb565::RED)
        ))
        .chain(&egtext!(
            text = text,
            top_left = (20, 16),
            style = text_style!(font = Font6x8, text_color = Rgb565::GREEN)
        ))
}

build_thing("Hello Rust!").draw(&mut display)?;

Draw a single pixel

This example draws a single green pixel.

For cases where many pixels are drawn it is preferable to implement a custom iterator instead of calling Pixel::draw for each pixel, because some display drivers implement accelerated drawing of iterators.

use embedded_graphics::{
    pixelcolor::Rgb888,
    prelude::*,
};

Pixel(Point::new(32, 32), Rgb888::GREEN).draw(&mut display)?;

Draw a line

This example draws a red line with 8px stroke.

use embedded_graphics::{
    pixelcolor::Rgb888,
    prelude::*,
    primitives::Line,
    style::PrimitiveStyle,
};

Line::new(Point::new(16, 24), Point::new(51, 34))
    .into_styled(PrimitiveStyle::with_stroke(Rgb888::RED, 8))
    .draw(&mut display)?;

Draw a rectangle

This example draws a rectangle with a 2px thick red stroke and cyan fill color.

use embedded_graphics::{
    pixelcolor::Rgb888,
    prelude::*,
    primitives::Rectangle,
    style::PrimitiveStyleBuilder,
};

Rectangle::new(Point::new(16, 24), Point::new(48, 40))
    .into_styled(
        PrimitiveStyleBuilder::new()
            .stroke_width(2)
            .stroke_color(Rgb888::RED)
            .fill_color(Rgb888::CYAN)
            .build(),
    )
    .draw(&mut display)?;

Draw a circle

This example draws a circle with no stroke and a solid blue fill.

use embedded_graphics::{
    pixelcolor::Rgb888,
    prelude::*,
    primitives::Circle,
    style::PrimitiveStyle,
};

Circle::new(Point::new(32, 32), 20)
    .into_styled(PrimitiveStyle::with_fill(Rgb888::BLUE))
    .draw(&mut display)?;

Draw a triangle

This example draws a triangle with a solid 1px magenta stroke and no fill.

use embedded_graphics::{
    pixelcolor::Rgb888,
    prelude::*,
    primitives::Triangle,
    style::PrimitiveStyle,
};

Triangle::new(Point::new(32, 16), Point::new(16, 48), Point::new(48, 48))
    .into_styled(PrimitiveStyle::with_stroke(Rgb888::MAGENTA, 1))
    .draw(&mut display)?;

Draw some text

This example draws the text “Hello,\nRust!” with the Font6x8 font in green.

use embedded_graphics::{
    fonts::{
        Font6x8,
        Text,
    },
    pixelcolor::Rgb888,
    prelude::*,
    style::TextStyle,
};

Text::new("Hello,\nRust!", Point::new(2, 28))
    .into_styled(TextStyle::new(Font6x8, Rgb888::GREEN))
    .draw(&mut display)?;

Display a TGA image

This example uses tinytga to draw an image to the display.

use embedded_graphics::{
    image::Image,
    pixelcolor::Rgb888,
    prelude::*,
};
use tinytga::Tga;

let tga = Tga::from_slice(include_bytes!(concat!(
    env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"),
    "/../simulator/examples/assets/rust-pride.tga"
)))
.unwrap();

let image: Image<Tga, Rgb888> = Image::new(&tga, Point::zero());

image.draw(&mut display)?;