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Game developers look beyond polygons
News Looks can be a powerful sales pull, however: "You walk into a shop and you see a game with ten million polygons per second next to one that just displays one million polygons per second, and you buy the one with more polygons because it looks...
[August 29, 2002, 8:52]
3DMatrix
Downloads Feature include: Optimized for you to work quickly with three-point polygons Component oriented design Instantly produce useful geometric models using over 50 parameters Original paradigm for adding and manipulating polygons and vertexes Import...
[May 17, 2003, 8:00]
nVidia claims world first for its Graphics Processing Unit
News The 256-bit processor has 23m transistors, with 50 Gigaflops of floating point calculation that allow it to deliver 15m sustained polygons per second and over 480m pixels per second. The main advantage is that gamers will see better looking...
[September 1, 1999, 14:51]
Game developers ponder their next move
News Game developers look beyond polygons Thur 29 Aug: Graphics in games have reached the point where throwing more polygons at the screen has little effect on the quality. NEWS: The future of artificial intelligence: The Borg?
[August 30, 2002, 16:05]
US Report: Windows CE lands its Sega dream machine
News Able to display 3 million polygons per second, Dreamcast will leap ahead of Sony's PlayStation (at 150,000 polygons per second) and Nintendo's N64 (at 300,000 polygons per second). Delivering on one of the worst-kept secrets of the gaming community...
[May 22, 1998, 14:43]
PhotoAlbum
Downloads Work with Native JPEG and BMP filesWork directly with JPEG image files from both the main memory or memory card.Support for bitmap files on your handheld.Convert formats, export and import images to memory cards with ease.With the new Browse form...
[March 16, 2004, 6:00]
Xbox uncovered
News The most visually impressive Xbox games shown at E3 looked to be running at around 10 million polygons per second, and some with drastic frame rate problems. Microsoft's specifications for the Xbox state that it is capable of displaying 125 million...
[November 15, 2001, 11:04]
VP Grabber
Downloads VP Grabber is a point and click software utility designed to the total amount of vertices and polygons on a given model. The totals can be accumulated for multi-part models. In addition a handy reference guide to Pelican3d models is included at the...
[July 24, 2006, 10:30]
VizUp Reducer
Downloads Reduce the number of polygons for 3D models used in virtual reality and real-time visualization systems. VizUp - each the optimal balance between the necessary details level and the size of 3D models.
[June 5, 2008, 8:00]
Birch3D
Downloads More than one hundred millions polygons in scene and one hundred thousand in a frame, gives us beautiful, life birch forest picture. 3D Screensaver about birch grove. Designed trees, qualitative grass, some living creatures, fitted colours and...
[February 20, 2007, 10:58]
NVIDIA GeForce 256
Downloads With transform, lighting, setup, and rendering on a single GPU, the GeForce 256 delivers 15M polygons/second and 480M pixels/second of performance. NVIDIA GeForce 256. Truly revolutionary, its unique 256-bit rendering engine enabled an order of...
[April 14, 2005, 8:00]
GIS Topology
White Papers A GIS topology is a set of rules and behaviors that model how points, lines, and polygons share geometry. Topology has long been a key GIS requirement for data management and integrity. In general, a topological data model represents spatial...
[August 23, 2005, 6:00]
Redline
Downloads Redline is a racing game for Mac OS X that demonstrates just how much fun tossing polygons around at 200+ mph can be. With its advanced 3D rendering engine and a physics engine that ensures each car has a distinct feel, Redline also shows that...
[September 5, 2008, 0:30]
Working With Objects in F#: Learn How to Use Common Object-Oriented Techniques in F# so That Various Shapes Know How to Calculate Their Own Perimeter
White Papers What about triangles, hexagons or arbitrary polygons, for instance? There are times though when one wants to extend the kind of shapes they are working with. While it is possible to enumerate these as special forms on a Shape type like one did in...
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
Baseball Edition 2000 demo
Downloads Baseball Edition 2000 is a 3D baseball game that uses a new generation of 3D technology with player models created from more than 100,000 polygons. It includes all 30 Major League teams, with more than 750 real-life players, including all of the...
[February 26, 1999, 2:24]
GPU vs CPU: wrong battle, wrong war
Blog Well, it's not so new - it's a repackaging, in shinier polygons, of what has most recently been called the CISC vs RISC argument that's been going since mainframe days. Intel is out on the road, preaching a new way of looking at processors.
[November 27, 2008, 6:56]
Artelope
Downloads Artelope will straighten lines, clean up polygons, smooth curves, and draw ovals and circles, all based on the user’s freehand sketch. Artelope is a real-time shape-recognizing drawing app for the Palm OS.
[November 4, 2000, 6:00]
Programming Languages and Translators
White Papers These have mostly to do with creating 2D and 3D polygons on Google Earth maps, tasks that so far have been done through the rather expensive Google Earth Plus, or the tedious task of coding KML (Keyhole Markup Language - derived from the XML...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
PhotoMatch for Cinema 4D
Downloads Additional tools allow the placement of polygons to match the loaded image. PhotoMatch is an Expression/COFFEE plugin for the 3D Software Cinema 4D v8.2 and newer. Loaded images can be used to calculate the position, rotation and focus for a 3D...
[May 24, 2004, 8:00]
HexaSuper2
Downloads You can also make smooth curved surfaces from rough polygons and generate 3D outlines from a single picture with the program's 3D Manga function. HexaSuper2 is 3D graphics software that offers the standard object modeling interface without the...
[September 27, 2000, 4:28]
