* Adobe Atmosphere, a 3D computer graphics product by Adobe Systems

PowerPC upgrades with Wide SCSI controllers, PCI busboards with Ethernet, sound and 3D graphics cards, and tower cases allowed the A1200 and A4000 to survive well into the late nineties.

The Accelerated Graphics Port ( often shortened to AGP ) is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.

* Cinema 4D, a 3D graphics application

Though the technical details of rendering methods vary, the general challenges to overcome in producing a 2D image from a 3D representation stored in a scene file are outlined as the graphics pipeline along a rendering device, such as a GPU.

Rendering is one of the major sub-topics of 3D computer graphics, and in practice always connected to the others.

In the case of 3D graphics, rendering may be done slowly, as in pre-rendering, or in real time.

Pre-rendering is a computationally intensive process that is typically used for movie creation, while real-time rendering is often done for 3D video games which rely on the use of graphics cards with 3D hardware accelerators.

Modern computer animation usually uses 3D computer graphics, although 2D computer graphics are still used for stylistic, low bandwidth, and faster real-time renderings.

Digital techniques, such as ray-tracing ( graphics ) | ray tracing, can also render 3D models with shallow depth of field for the same effect.

Direct3D ( the 3D graphics API within DirectX ) is widely used in the development of video games for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360 and some Sega Dreamcast games.

It is widely recognized for having popularized the first-person shooter genre, pioneering immersive 3D graphics, networked multiplayer gaming, and support for customized additions and modifications via packaged files in a data archive known as " WADs ".

Dooms primary distinguishing feature at the time of its release was its realistic 3D graphics, then unparalleled by other real-time-rendered games running on consumer-level hardware.

Category: Video games with stereoscopic 3D graphics

Layer-based compositing is very well suited for rapid 2D and limited 3D effects such as in motion graphics, but becomes awkward for more complex composites entailing a large number of layers.

# REDIRECT Video game graphics # Fixed 3D

Global illumination is a general name for a group of algorithms used in 3D computer graphics that are meant to add more realistic lighting to 3D scenes.

In real-time 3D graphics, the diffuse inter-reflection component of global illumination is sometimes approximated by an " ambient " term in the lighting equation, which is also called " ambient lighting " or " ambient color " in 3D software packages.

Category: 3D computer graphics

The other console's games had a blip sound and cruder graphics, while the Intellivision featured a realistic swing sound and striking of the ball, and graphics that suggested a more 3D look.

Moreover, it became easier to edit 3D models.

In June 2008, EDuke32 became the only Duke Nukem 3D port to compile and run natively on 64-bit Linux systems without the use of a 32-bit compatibility environment thanks to significant porting contributions from the DOSBox team.

Joysticks became especially popular with the mainstream success of Space flight simulator games like X-Wing and Wing Commander, as well as the " Six degrees of freedom " 3D shooter Descent.

Another sequel was also released only in Japan for the Nintendo GameCube in 2004, entitled Kururin Squash !, which became the only title of the series to feature 3D computer graphics, as well as to appear on a home console.

When originally developed, for the Intel i860, the use of integer math made sense ( both 2D and 3D calculations required it ), but as graphics cards that did much of this became common, integer SIMD in the CPU became somewhat redundant for graphical applications.

GPLs lack of inbuilt support for 3D accelerator cards other than those produced by 3dfx and Rendition contributed to a decrease in sales when those cards became obsolete, since at the time there was no Direct3D support.

A hatchback became available on February 20, 1971, debuting at the Chicago Auto Show ( also, in 1971, the Pinto brochure came with a paper cutout Pinto that one could fold together to make a 3D model ).

The Summit Building, 300 N. Marienfeld, in mid-2008 became the first building in the Midland area to be depicted on Google Earth in a 3D mode.

With the advent of hardware accelerated physics processing, various physics API such as PAL and the physics extensions of COLLADA ( an interchange format for 3D assets ) became available to provide a software abstraction of the physics processing unit of different middleware providers and console platforms.

The game that became Carmageddon started out as " 3D Destruction Derby ", a banger racing sim prototyped by Stainless Software.

On 26 May 2010, Nine became the first free to air television channel in Australia to broadcast in 3D.

Later in 2007, the cube became a solid 3D box, and partially relaunched the nine dots, which is visible in every second surface of the box.

AEG in a Co-Production with 3ality Digital became the first concert to be broadcast LIVE in 3D.

The series often been labelled as a " rival " to Virtua Fighter as the two became the most famous 3D fighting game series.

But with the development of the 3D graphics card, it became common for the video card to have its own fan, separate from a general case / system fan.

3D films became more and more successful throughout the 2000s, culminating in the unprecedented success of 3D presentations of Avatar in December 2009 and January 2010.

From the mid-1990s and the burgeoning use of 3D graphics in video games, shoot ' em ups became a niche genre based on design conventions established in the 1980s and increasingly catered to specialist enthusiasts, particularly in Japan.

With the launch of 3D Home Theater, Samsung became the first company in the industry to have the full line of 3D offerings, including 3D television, 3D Blu-ray player, 3D content, and 3D glasses.

* Ampère and the history of electricity-a French-language, edited by CNRS, site with Ampère's correspondence ( full text and critical edition with links to manuscripts pictures, more than 1000 letters ), an Ampère bibliography, experiments, and 3D simulations

Right angle weave lends itself better as a technique to 3D beading, but peyote stitch offers the advantage of more tightly knit beads, which is sometimes necessary to properly portray an object in 3 dimensions.

Raycasting is primarily used for realtime simulations, such as those used in 3D computer games and cartoon animations, where detail is not important, or where it is more efficient to manually fake the details in order to obtain better performance in the computational stage.

EDuke was a semi-official branch of Duke Nukem 3D that was released to the Internet as Duke Nukem 3D v2. 0 by 3D Realms in 2000 ; it focused primarily on enhancing the CON scripting language in ways which allowed those modifying the game to do much more with the system than originally possible.

Ambient lighting is known to " flatten " shadows in 3D scenes, making the overall visual effect more bland.

More and more specialized algorithms are used in 3D programs that can effectively simulate the global illumination.

This discovery led to a more detailed investigation of DNA to determine its composition as well as its 3D structure.

Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM and Quake engine ports are ubiquitous to nearly all platforms capable of running games, such as hand-held PCs, iPods, the PSP, the Nintendo DS and more.

During its early days, Id Software produced much more varied games ; these include the early 3D first person shooter experiments that led to Wolfenstein 3D and Doom — Hovertank 3D and Catacomb 3D.

Thus a 3D display must display twice as many images in the same period of time as a conventional display, and consequently the response time of the LCD is more important.

Several optional extensions are also available, including MIPS-3D which is a simple set of floating-point SIMD instructions dedicated to common 3D tasks, MDMX ( MaDMaX ) which is a more extensive integer SIMD instruction set using the 64-bit floating-point registers, MIPS16e which adds compression to the instruction stream to make programs take up less room, and MIPS MT, which adds multithreading capability.

This in turn caused SGI market share to weaken as more 3D graphics hardware suppliers entered the market.

* A newer, more realistic-looking logo debuted in 1953 for Paramount films made in 3D.

3D techniques have better sensitivity ( because more coincidences are detected and used ) and therefore less noise, but are more sensitive to the effects of scatter and random coincidences, as well as requiring correspondingly greater computer resources.

Optical ray tracing describes a method for producing visual images constructed in 3D computer graphics environments, with more photorealism than either ray casting or scanline rendering techniques.