While a few short-lived DOS based EDuke projects emerged, it was not until the release of EDuke32, an extended version of Duke3D incorporating variants of both Fowler's Microsoft Windows JFDuke3D code and Saettler's EDuke code, by one of 3D Realms ' forum moderators in late 2004 that EDuke's scripting extensions received community focus.

While not purely a hardware synth, the DS-XG sound cards based on the Yamaha YMF-7 # 4 family of audio chipsets ( including 724, 744, 754, and 764 ), including the Yamaha WaveForce 192 ( SW192XG ) as well as many from other manufacturers and even some PC motherboards with such an audio chipset, included hardware-assisted software VL physical modelling ( like a VL70m or PLG-VL, and compatible with same ) along with the Yamaha XG, wave audio, and 3D gaming sound capabilities of the chipset.

While arcade games were still relatively popular during the 1990s, this type of media saw a continuous decline in popularity in the Western world when video game consoles made the transition from 2D to 3D.

While a software renderer was available, for smooth gameplay a 3D card was all but essential, and GPL supported only two types: 3dfx and Rendition Verité.

While it was originally planned to reopen in time for the centenary on 25 May 2008, delays prevented this, and the house was finally reopened with a gala concert and 3D animations on 24 May 2010, the eve of its own 102nd birthday and the Argentina Bicentennial.

While they were initially supposed to develop a 3D Computer-aided Design software ( CATIA, then called CATI ) to help designing planes only, the engineers brought it up to another level to provide help to other industry sectors.

While early accelerators focused on improving the performance of 2D GUI systems, most modern accelerators focus on producing 3D imagery in real time.

While point clouds can be directly rendered and inspected, usually point clouds themselves are generally not directly usable in most 3D applications, and therefore are usually converted to polygon or triangle mesh models, NURBS surface models, or CAD models through a process commonly referred to as surface reconstruction.

While enemies, innocents, and explosions are 2D digitized video sprites, the levels and vehicles are pre-rendered in 3D.

While third-party game engines were not common up until the rise of 3D computer graphics in the 1990s, there were several 2D game creation systems produced in the 1980s for independent video game development.

While conventional ( 2D visible light ) imaging is most commonly used in MV, alternatives include imaging various infrared bands, line scan imaging, 3D imaging of surfaces and X-ray imaging.

While scientific volume visualization doesn't require modifying the actual voxel data, voxel editors can be used to create art ( especially 3D pixel art ) and models for voxel based games.

While these cards, such as Matrox Mystique, S3 ViRGE, and ATI 3D Rage, offered unquestionably inferior 3D acceleration, their lower cost and simplicity often appealed to OEM system builders.

While some have speculated that shipping the " Rampage " might have saved 3dfx, the fact remains that the company never mastered the new concept of relatively cheap, high-performance designs with integrated 3D acceleration, which was rapidly becoming the de facto standard of PC graphics vise 2D.

While stereograms have typically been used for amusement, including stereographic cards, 3D films, printings using anaglyph and pictures, posters and books of autostereograms, there are also serious uses of the technologies.

While not the first arcade racing game with 3D graphics ( it was predated by Winning Run, Hard Drivin ' and Stunts ), it was able to combine the best features of games at the time, along with multiplayer machine linking and clean 3D graphics to produce a game that was above and beyond the arcade market standard of its time, laying the foundations for subsequent 3D racing games.

While the company is known as " 3D Realms ", the legal name of the company is Apogee Software, Ltd.

While the work on OpenGL ++ continued, Sun and SGI had also been working on a 3D standard suitable for Java.

While this game was released in conjunction with the similarly named Sonic 3D Blast, the games have little in common.

While there were games prior that had used three dimensional environments, such as Virtua Racing and Star Fox, it was in this era that many game designers began to move traditionally 2D and pseudo-3D genres into 3D.

While the show took place at the front of the park ( International Street ), the highlight was on Wonder Mountain, with many 3D images and colours.

While many window managers ( such as Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager, the X Window System based Compiz, and Mac OS X through Core Animation ) can utilize 3D effects, these merely augment a conventional 2D environment.

While it touted superior graphics to the 2600 and Mattel's Intellivision, the system was initially incompatible with the 2600s expansive library of games, and some market analysts have speculated that this hurt its sales especially since an Atari 2600 cartridge adapter had been released for the Intellivision II.

While the 320 pixel modes theoretically enable the 7800 to create games at higher resolution than the 256 pixel wide graphics found in the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System, the intense processing demands of MARIA typically meant that programmers created their games using the lower 160 pixel modes.

While the idea of markup language originated with text documents, there is an increasing usage of markup languages in other areas which involve the presentation of various types of information, including playlists, vector graphics, web services, content syndication, and user interfaces.

While more powerful and with seemingly more advanced graphics, the Virtual Boy was not intended to replace the Game Boy in Nintendo's product line, as use of the system requires a steady surface and completely blocks the player's peripheral vision.

While support for driving pen plotters directly or saving files as HPGL has disappeared from most commercial graphics applications, several contemporary software packages make working with HPGL on modern operating systems possible.

While algorithms such as Wu's algorithm are also frequently used in modern computer graphics because they can support antialiasing, the speed and simplicity of Bresenham's line algorithm means that it is still important.

While featuring Nintendo's trademark Mario character, the game's graphics and gameplay differed from all previous Mario games in that players control various Yoshi dinosaurs rather than Mario himself, who appears as a helpless infant.

While the Astrocade ( and Datamax UV-1 ) had limited text capabilities but excellent graphics, the Sorcerer instead had excellent text and only limited graphical capability.

While initially derided for poor performance in comparison to the more sophisticated graphics devices used in computers like the Atari 400, framebuffers eventually became the standard for all personal computers.

While the original reasons for this are lost to history, it is often used on modern systems to support programs such as the Sun Microsystems JVM that do not allow dynamic graphics to be generated in a headless environment.

While all versions were nearly identical in terms of gameplay, the EGA PC port had upgraded graphics ( there was also a CGA version ), although the C64 boasted the best sound.

While there had already been simple target-shooting games using this perspective, Star Raiders had considerably higher quality graphics and more complex game play.

While the game follows its own story and maps, much of the game utilizes the same game play mechanics, even going as far as adding in a " classic " mode that removed all of the game's graphics, replacing it with a wireframe environment, 8-bit-style sprites for monsters and characters, and chiptune music.

While flight and driving simulators and real-time strategy ( RTS ) games increasingly provide realism on a large scale, first-person shooters are at the forefront of computer graphics on these smaller scales.

While the game included HD updated graphics and various Live leaderboards, online play was absent which makes it an exception amongst most games ported to Xbox Live Arcade.

" While the graphics were much-improved, especially on 8-bit versions, the game lacked any sense of accomplishment.

While both editions retain Rod Lord's illustrations, all placeholder graphics were replaced by artwork designed and sent in by contest participants.

While the K6-2 had mediocre floating-point performance compared to the Celeron, it offered faster system RAM access ( courtesy of the Super 7 mainboard ), as well as 3DNow graphics extensions.

While some high-end graphics workstation systems and the accessories marketed toward use with such systems, as from SGI, have always used more than 8 bits per channel, such as 12 or 16 ( 36-bit or 48-bit color ), such color depths have only worked their way into the general market more recently.

While crude by modern standards, in 1980 Akalabeth < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s graphics and dungeon crawl gameplay mechanics were considered quite advanced, and the game attracted a large amount of attention.

** While high-end graphing calculators can graph in 3-D, GraphCalc benefits from modern computers ' memory, speed, and graphics acceleration ( OpenGL )