The MS-DOS was a version specialized for and only bootable on the Tandy 1000, as it would announce on the screen of any other PC-compatible one tried to boot with it ; it included a version of BASICA ( Microsoft's Advanced GW-BASIC ) with support for the enhanced CGA graphics modes ( a. k. a. Tandy Graphics or TGA ) and three-voice sound hardware of the Tandy 1000.

Direct3D 11. 1 also features minor updates to the shader language, such as larger constant buffers and optional double-precision instructions, as well as improved blending modes and mandatory support for 16-bit color formats to improve the performance of entry-level GPUs such as Intel HD Graphics.

In addition to supporting all graphics modes of previous Apple II models, the Apple IIGS introduced several new ones through a custom Video Graphics Chip ( VGC ), all of which used a 12-bit palette for a total of 4, 096 possible colors, though not all colors could appear onscreen at the same time.

Very early production runs of the machine had a faulty Video Graphics Controller ( VGC ) chip that produced strange cosmetic glitches in emulated ( IIe / IIc ) video modes.

Ironically, the enhanced graphics and sound standards the PCjr pioneered ultimately became known as " Tandy-compatible ", with the extended graphics modes eventually coined " TGA " ( Tandy Graphics Adapter ) graphics.

** Graphics modes: 320 × 200 × 4, 640 × 200 × 2, 160 × 100 × 16, 160 × 200 × 16, 320 × 200 × 16, 640 × 200 × 4

* Graphics modes: 160x200 ( lores ) / 320 × 200 ( hires ), 121 colors

The first color capable video card for the IBM PC family was the Color Graphics Adapter ( CGA ), which includes two graphic modes: 320 × 200 pixels with four colors ( two bits per pixel ) and 640 × 200 pixels black-and-white ( one bit per pixel ).

Enhanced Graphics Adapter ( EGA ) and better adapters natively support text modes beyond 80 × 25 character cells: 80 × 43 ( EGA ), 80 × 50 ( Video Graphics Array, VGA ), 132 × 50 and 132 × 60 ( VESA compatible Super VGA ), etc., increasing the simulated graphic resolution available, doubled again through the half block characters.

Of these modes, Atari BASIC Graphics 9 is particularly notable.

Graphics emulation includes text mode, Hercules, CGA ( including some composite modes and the 160x100x16 tweaked modes ), Tandy, EGA, VGA ( including Mode X and other tweaks ), VESA, and full S3 Trio 64 emulation.

Ultrapak also foreshadowed Tseng Labs penchant for enhancing graphics-by providing IBM Monochrome Display Adapter ( MDA ) and Hercules Graphics Card ( HGC ) compatibility along with their own special 132 column text modes.

Graphics BASIC also allows the screen to be horizontally split between multiple modes.

In addition to its native 640 x 480 mode, the PGC optionally supported the documented text and graphics modes of the Color Graphics Adapter, which could be enabled using an onboard jumper.

* Graphics modes: 280 × 192

** Graphics modes: 40x48 ( 16 col ), 280x192 ( 6 col )

Some third-party CGA and EGA clones, such as the ATI Graphics Solution and the Paradise EGA, could emulate the extra modes ( usually describing them simply as ' Plantronics mode ').

For example, a tweak mode can be set even in the original IBM Color Graphics Adapter ( CGA ) to give an extra, non-standard 160 × 100 pixels, 16-color graphic mode.

Video Graphics Array ( VGA ) refers specifically to the display hardware first introduced with the IBM PS / 2 line of computers in 1987, but through its widespread adoption has also come to mean either an analog computer display standard, the 15-pin D-subminiature VGA connector or the 640 × 480 resolution itself.

* The Hercules Graphics Card Plus ( June 1986 ) allowed user-defined fonts to be used in 80 × 25 text mode.

Graphics on the Sorcerer sound impressive, with a resolution of 512 × 240, when most machines of the era supported a maximum of 320 × 200.

# REDIRECT Graphics display resolution # WUXGA ( 1920 × 1200 )

# REDIRECT Graphics display resolution # SXGA ( 1280 × 1024 )

# REDIRECT Graphics display resolution # UXGA ( 1600 × 1200 )

The graphics chip capably accelerated DirectDraw and supported all of the Windows Graphics Device Interface ( GDI ) in hardware, with all 256 raster operations and tertiary functions, and hardware polygon acceleration.

* Enhanced Graphics Adapter piggyback board, adds memory beyond 64 KB, up to 256 KB

The term GPU was popularized by Nvidia in 1999, who marketed the GeForce 256 as " the world's first ' GPU ', or Graphics Processing Unit, a single-chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup / clipping, and rendering engines that are capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second ".

With the introduction of the Advanced Graphics Architecture a conventional planar image could have a palette of 256 colors with significantly higher color fidelity.

Introduced in 1984, the Professional Graphics Controller ( often called " Professional Graphics Adapter " and sometimes " Professional Graphics Array ") offered higher resolution and color depth than EGA, and supported 256 colors at higher resolutions than VGA, supporting resolutions up to 640 × 480 with 256 colors and a refresh rate of 60 Hertz.

Some older cards prior to the VGA ( like the Professional Graphics Controller ) can only choose the 256 color palette from 4096 colors ( 12 bits: 4 red, 4 green, 4 blue ).

Graphics are limited to 256 colors, which can cause distortion if two graphics with differing pallets are used on the same map.

GIF ( Graphics Interchange Format ) is limited to an 8-bit palette, or 256 colors.

* Graphics Memory: 4 MB

* ( 1994 )-SmartSuite 2. 1 ( Ami Pro 3. 0, 1-2-3 4. 0, Freelance Graphics 2. 0, Approach 2. 0 and Organizer 1. 1 )

* ( 1996 )-SmartSuite 97 — Windows 95 and Windows NT 4. 0 ( 1-2-3 97, Word Pro 97, Approach 97, Freelance Graphics 97, Organizer 97, ScreenCam 4. 0 and SmartCenter )

Originally called WGF 2. 0 ( Windows Graphics Foundation 2. 0 ), then DirectX 10 and DirectX Next, Direct3D 10 features an updated shader model 4. 0 and optional interruptibility for shader programs ..

In 1989, the series was nominated for four BAFTA awards in the category of Best Graphics, Best Design ( episodes 1, 2, 5, 8 & 10 ), Best Costume Design ( episodes 2, 4, 7, 8 & 10 ), and Best Original Television Music, winning all but the nomination for Best Design.

* Bump shading for volume textures, Max, N. L., Becker, B. G., Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, Jul 1994, Volume 14, Issue 4, pages 18-20, ISSN 0272-1716

* Two Silicon Graphics Origin 200 mainframe systems, with ( 4 ) processors ( R10000, 180 MHz, RISC 64 bit ) each, running IRIX 6. 4 ( 64 bit UNIX ).

A typical Voodoo Graphics PCI expansion card consisted of a DAC, a frame buffer processor and a texture mapping unit, along with 4 MB of EDO DRAM.

Base configuration uses an Intel Sandy Bridge 2. 5 GHz Core i5-2520M ( up to 3. 20 GHz ) with 4 GB of RAM ( up to 8 GB ), SATA or SSD hard drive, Intel Integrated HD Graphics, USB 3. 0, backlit keyboard, 802. 11 b / g / n WiFi and an average of eight hours of battery life.

Amiga manufacturer Commodore International later commissioned EA to create version 4. 5 AGA for bundling with the new Advanced Graphics Architecture chipset ( A1200, A4000 ) capable Amigas.

* 3D Graphics Programming with QuickDraw 3D 1. 5. 4 — QD3D manual

Silicon Graphics developed GLX ; the software has reached version 1. 4.

Manolito Tolentino Mayo ( December 17, 1954-May 4, 1983 ) locally known as Toto Mayo or Lito Mayo, was a Philippine artist who won several major competitions while in the University of Santo Tomas, including the 1973 Sculpture and Graphics Awards, 1977 AAP Graphic Arts Competition, and the 1980 Critic's Choice Awards for Graphic Arts.

* An improved Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture ( AGA ) version for the Amiga 1200 & 4000 was released later ( 4 floppies ).

Computer Graphics 25 ( 4 ), Siggraph ' 91 Proceedings, July 1991, pp. 319-328.

* Indigo Magic Desktop, the default Desktop Environment for IRIX ( a UNIX variant by Silicon Graphics ), in versions 5. 1-6. 4 ......

The format of the game reviews changed over the course of the first few issues: initially games were not given a quantitative score ( issues # 1 & # 2 ), then games were graded on a scale of one to five stars ( five being the best, issues # 3 & # 4 ), finally, with issue # 5, TurboPlay adopted VG & CE's standard format for reviews ( i. e. games were given individual scores -- on a ten-point scale -- for Sound / Music, Graphics, Playability and " Overall ").

The Elan Graphics system also implemented hardware stencil buffering by allocating 4 bits from the Z-buffer to produce a combined 20-bit Z, 4-bit stencil buffer.