Today we’re going to discuss how 3D graphics are created and rendered for a 2D screen. From polygon count and meshes, to lighting and texturing, there are a lot of considerations in building the ...

The Voodoo 2 then took this same approach and ran with it. For starters, it accelerated a bit more of the 3D graphics pipeline in hardware, taking the triangle setup process away from the CPU.

Triangle meshes define the shapes used in 3D graphics and modeling. Credit: Nvidia 3D MoMa was showcased at this week’s Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) in New Orleans.

First, we started making 3D objects out of triangles. Why triangles? Because no matter where we put three points in space, they always describe a two-dimensional, flat area. At first, the triangles ...

Their most distinctive technology on Tuesday was a real-time Virtual Reality 3D graphic system that looked like a frameless monitor floating in air, Minority Report-style. Photo: NBC ArtWorks ...