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Technical Brief: 3D Graphics Demystified
White Papers Almost all computer systems shipped today have some form of 3D graphics. But most of the marketing and advertisements never really describe what 3D graphics are or why 3D graphics are useful.3D graphics in general are used to create realistic...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
3D Graphics World Shaken By Patent Claims
News OpenGL, a widely used cross-platform graphics standard, may be subject to more restrictive licensing following recent claims by Microsoft that it owns patents to technology critical to the specification.
[July 11, 2002, 16:14]
GraalBench: A 3D Graphics Benchmark Suite For Mobile Phones
White Papers This paper considers implementations of embedded 3D graphics and provides evidence indicating that 3D benchmarks employed for desktop computers are not suitable for mobile environments. Consequently, the paper presents GraalBench, a set of 3D...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Intel Uses Imagination On Embedded 3D Graphics
News Intel has licensed the PowerVR MBX graphics and video core from Imagination Technologies in a move that may bring higher-end graphics to mobile devices based on Intel architectures. The PowerVR architecture is designed to be highly scalable, and...
[July 25, 2002, 15:36]
A Year Ago: PCs To Get Silicon Graphics 3D Savvy
News Silicon Graphics (SGI) is finally entering the PC mainstream after announcing deals with Intel, Compaq, Number Nine and five other companies to license its 3D technology. OpenGL is an important 3D graphics standard for visual computing and it will...
[March 24, 1998, 6:00]
Getting Started With The Mobile 3D Graphics API For J2ME
White Papers This paper introduces the Mobile 3D Graphics API for the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME), defined by the Java Community Process (JCP) in JSR 184. The API is an optional package to be used with profiles like the Mobile Information Device...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
ArcGIS 3D Analyst Graphics Accelerator Cards
White Papers Rendering performance in 3D scenes can be improved dramatically through the use of an OpenGL graphics card. OpenGL is an industry-standard, cross-platform, 3D graphics application programming interface (API).
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
PCs To Get Silicon Graphics 3D Savvy
News Silicon Graphics (SGI) is finally entering the PC mainstream after announcing deals with Intel, Compaq, Number Nine and five other companies to license its 3D technology. OpenGL is an important 3D graphics standard for visual computing and it will...
[March 24, 1997, 11:31]
The Design And Application Of High-Resolution 3D Stereoscopic Graphics Display On PC
White Papers This paper describes methods and procedures for real-time rendering of high-resolution 3D stereoscopic graphics using an improved 3D OpenGL accelerator on PC platform. Using a special driver and the SDK, the high-resolution 3D stereoscopic graphics...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Intel Express 3D Graphics Card Driver
Downloads The following is a driver download file for the Intel Express 3D graphics card. This file is written specifically for the Intel Express 3D graphics card only, and will not function with other Intel740 graphics accelerator based graphics cards...
[July 21, 2006, 9:14]
Intel Unveils Its First 3D Graphics Chip
News Intel said it has worked with application developers in games, CAD and DVD fields to support the graphics chip. Co-developed with Real3D, the Intel740 chip is optimised for Pentium II-based systems with AGP support and promises 'arcade-quality' 3D...
[February 12, 1998, 11:37]
DiFi: Fast 3D Distance Field Computation Using Graphics Hardware
White Papers This paper presents an algorithm for fast computation of 3D discretized distance fields using graphics hardware. The algorithm uses a combination of culling and clamping techniques to reduce the number and size of distance functions that are...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Graphics Vendors Push Budget 3D, TV
News Orchid Technology's first 3D card, the Fahrenheit Video 3D is based on the ubiquitous S3 ViRGE accelerator and comes with 2Mb EDO RAM as standard, at about £128 on the street. ATI's TV Tuner card will cost from under £90.
[July 17, 1996, 17:18]
3D Graphics World Shaken By Patent Claims
Talkback Maybe with all the money they are getting from the patents they can say they all have them over in ireland.http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=WORLD-qqqs=news-qqqid=10384-qqqx=1.asp
[December 16, 2005, 17:16]
3Dfx Unveils New 3D Graphics Tech
News Anti-aliasing has always been a Holy Grail within the graphics industry. In fact, many graphics board makers attempt to smooth out images in software -- slowing a game's action to a crawl. The anti-aliasing feature is certainly the most interesting...
[August 2, 1999, 10:29]
Lacks 3d Graphics Power
Member Review Beeping battery, ridiculous 3D power (quake3 running faster on an Athlon800 w/ GeForce2).not worth the money, better get a Toshiba.
[January 21, 2004, 15:11]
Real-Time Lens Distortion Correction: 3D Video Graphics Cards Are Good For More Than Games
White Papers A texture-mapping graphics accelerator can use corresponding meshes of distorted and undistorted nodes along with the dynamic distorted image to render high quality distortion-corrected images at video frame rates.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Blending Reality Into 3D Digital Worlds: Nexus Digital Studios, Motion Analysis Studios, And NVIDIA Quadro FX Graphics
White Papers Both of these companies rely exclusively on NVIDIA Quadro FX professional graphics solutions for enough power to capture photorealistic detail for film-quality results. Two of the premiere studios providing scanning and motion capture services to...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A Graphics Hardware Implementation Of The Generalized Hough Transform For Fast Object Recognition, Scale, And 3D Pose Detection
White Papers In this paper we employ an inexpensive, consumer-market graphics card as the "poor man's" parallel processing system. We describe the implementation of a fast and enhanced version of the generalized Hough transform on graphics hardware.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
S3 Pumps Up 3D Chips
News The new chips are the EDO RAM ViRGE/DX and ViRGE/GX, which supports EDO RAM, synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) and synchronous graphics RAM (SGRAM). Both provide perspective correction and trilinear MIP-mapped texturing without affecting system performance...
[November 7, 1996, 13:47]
