3D Archive

Review: 3Dconnexion SpacePilot

Submitted by anonymous 2005-11-08 3D 1 Comment

"What the heck is it? would be the average observer’s first question. Looking at the 3Dconnexion SpacePilot, it is difficult to discern exactly what a device like this could be used for. Somewhere between a doorknob, a calculator, and a fragment of a stealth bomber cockpit, the SpacePilot clearly means business. But what type of business?"

Fujitsu To Manufacture 3D Graphics Processors for S3 Graphics

Thom Holwerda 2005-11-03 3D 7 Comments

"S3 Graphics and Fujitsu Limited today announced that Fujitsu will be producing the new range of S3 Graphics' high performance graphics processors, which leverage Fujitsu's 90 nanometer process technology to enable the realization of graphics processors that feature high speeds and industry-leading performance per watt."

Open Graphics Project Status Update

Submitted by Timothy Miller 2005-10-04 3D 26 Comments

"It's been a while since the last update on the Open Graphics Project, so I've put together this article to fill in the community on what's been happening, what's going to happen, and how we can make what happens happen faster."

General Purpose Computation Using a GPU

Submitted by Flavio Villanustre 2005-08-14 3D 22 Comments

Graphics hardware has grown from a simple display controller to a full fledged specialized processing unit, in the last 10 years. The amount of included memory has increased from a mere few Kilobytes to hundreds of Megabytes. But what other uses can be found for your videocard when you’re not playing a game or using the latest CAD package?

Build a Digital Animation System

Submitted by anonymous 2005-08-08 3D 3 Comments

Growth in the Digital Special Effects and computer animation industry, a sub-segment of the media and entertainment industry, is exploding world wide. A number of reasons have caused this growth and they involve the merging of technology and imagination.This article illustrates the dynamics and business model and processes of the animation effects industry and introduce the existing infrastructure.

Ati, nVidia Release Beta Drivers for Vista

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-31 3D 23 Comments

Both nVidia (also nForce) and Ati have released beta versions of their driver packages for Windows Vista, both client and server editions. ActiveWin also has a list of drivers included in Vista beta 1.

DirectX, Longhorn And The Future Of Windows Gaming

Thom Holwerda 2005-06-29 3D 32 Comments

It's the tenth anniversary of DirectX. In honor of this occasion we spoke with Chris Donahue, the group manager for Windows gaming and graphics. Chris discusses the evolution of DirectX, the impact of the next Windows (Longhorn) and 64-bit gaming, how XNA will help developers on Windows and Xbox, where Windows gaming is headed and much more.

ATI Linux Drivers Add Graphical Installer

Submitted by OpenGLCoder 2005-06-10 3D 59 Comments

ATI released new drivers for Linux. This release includes a new graphical install utility.

SciTech SNAP Graphics 3.0 Offers Video Acceleration

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-08 3D 25 Comments

SciTech Software, Inc. today announced that it has released SciTech SNAP Graphics 3.0 for Linux. It offers support for XFree86 and X.org. SciTech SNAP Graphics delivers advanced 2D acceleration for business users, Plug-N-Play support for hundreds of graphics cards and now provides advanced XVideo acceleration for ATI’s desktop and mobile graphics processor, making enterprise wide deployment and management easier and more powerful than ever.

nVIDIA 3D OpenGL drivers for Solaris x64

Submitted by Darren Moffat 2005-06-02 3D 43 Comments

nVIDIA now has 3D drivers and OpenGL libraries for Xorg on Solaris 10. This brings the same level of functionality for the nVIDIA cards to Solaris that Linux and BSD have had already. Now, it's ATi's turn...

Mobile 3D Graphics for J2ME (JSR-184): Part 2

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-08 3D No Comments

Now that you're up close and personal with the Mobile 3D API and had a look at how 3D graphics were added in to mobile Java applications, Mikko Kontio continues his series with a look at how 3D modeling software can be used to make things simpler to code and to design.

VIA Releases Linux Driver Source Packages

Submitted by Pascal Riendeau 2005-04-13 3D 26 Comments

VIA releases Linux Driver source packages: On top of the UniChrome drivers, VIA also offers display driver sources for the VIA ProSavage and ProSavage DDR integrated graphics controllers as well as the integrated Network driver source supporting six VIA Chipset South Bridges.

XGI Releases Source Code for Linux

Submitted by Pascal Riendeau 2005-04-12 3D 22 Comments

XGI has released some source code of their Linux driver hoping for some help from the community.

Interview on Open Graphics Project

Submitted by Timothy Miller 2005-01-25 3D 10 Comments

A while back, OSNews had an article about the Open Graphics Project. The project has progressed significantly, and now there is an interview on KernelTrap.org about the progress, status, and future of this 3D graphics project. If you're interested in how the chip works, there's even a C++ software model of the OpenGL renderer you can look at.

Open source graphics card?

Submitted by Lars Roland 2004-11-27 3D 114 Comments

A company named Tech Source has stepped up to create an open source 2D/3D graphics card. The project has an open mailing list and a spec proposal for the final card can be downloaded here. This project is a groundbreaking effort at creating truely open hardware, and is great chance for everyone who is interested in 2D/3D programming to see how a modern graphics card works.

DirectX and the .NET Programmer

Submitted by Esther Schindler 2004-10-19 3D 17 Comments

If you're not programming games or video, should you just forget about DirectX? Not necessarily.

OpenGL 2.0 Released

Submitted by Benjamin S Carrell 2004-09-09 3D 11 Comments

The OpenGL Architecture Review Board has released the OpenGL 2.0 specification.

OpenGL 2.0 launched with built-in shader language

Eugenia Loli 2004-08-10 3D 13 Comments

OpenGL 2.0 was formally launched today and with it the completion of the graphics API's Shading Language specification for vertex- and pixel-shader programming. OpenGL Shading Language was approved by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB) in June 2003 as an extension to OpenGL 1.4, which has since been updated to version 1.5.

Bilinear, Trilinear, and MIP Mapping Technologies Explained

Eugenia Loli 2004-08-09 3D 16 Comments

Since the earliest games of Ping Pong and Pac man, graphics have evolved quite a bit. The technology in which to render them has also evolved into complex and speedy graphics processing units. From primitive software acceleration to the current hardware and software acceleration, graphics have become more efficient, more complex, and most importantly, more beautiful than ever before.

An attempt of 3D user interface for Windows

Submitted by Yue Fei 2004-08-01 3D 40 Comments

The 'Cube' is an attempt to use 3D user interface to replace the 2D windows desktop. (The website contains explanations, features, details, and screenshots/videos.)

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