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title="Cactus Image Viewer"
mediatype="demo"
conference="Handmade Seattle 2023"
description="Lightweight image viewer for Windows."

[[videos]]
title="Cactus Image Viewer"
embed="https://player.vimeo.com/video/887506439?h=c6b7e70350"
service="vimeo"
download_link="https://vimeo.com/887506439/c6b7e70350"

[[speakers]]
name="Wassim Alhajomar"
bio="Hi there! I'm Wassim, located in Berlin Germany. I'm a doctor of medicine and a hobbyist of all things programming. I enjoy working with code in C and designing games and game engine related stuff. I also enjoy playing and making music, writing, and painting. Right now all of my projects are done in whatever free time I can spare after work."
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#### A native image viewer for Windows, written in C/C++ (single-file)

Cactus supports most common image formats, cropping, basic editing, blur effects, rotation, histograms, togglable linear filtering, and loading sorted folders, packed in a custom immediate mode UI engine, with a D3D11 backend.

Notably, Cactus offers Animated GIF and WebP support with play/pause and seek controls.