Scenic is a scene-based 2D graphics library. Its purpose is to enable the development of graphics intensive applications using the capabilities of modern graphics cards. It aims to be fast and offer high-quality graphics. One possibility that Scenic offers is the development of resolution independent interfaces.

Scenic consists of two parts: the scene graph code, which is written in java and the rendering code which is written in c++ and is accessed using JNI. The rendering code uses either DirectX or OpenGL to access the graphics hardware.