Rendering APIs typically provide just enough functionality to abstract a graphics accelerator, focussing on rendering primitives, state management, command...

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Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is a subsystem of the Linux kernel responsible for interfacing with GPUs of modern video cards. DRM exposes an API that user-space...

games of that time helped the sales of graphics cards, and more games started using hardware APIs like DirectX and OpenGL. Though software rendering fell...

cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing...

specialized APIs (application programming interfaces) have been created to ease the processes in all stages of computer graphics generation. These APIs have...

programming interface (API). It is designed for efficient rendering of multichannel three-dimensional positional audio. Its API style and conventions deliberately...

blending, and rendering. The VA-API specification was originally designed by Intel for its GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) series of GPU hardware with...

older OpenGL and Direct3D 11 APIs. It does so by providing a considerably lower-level API for the application than the older APIs, that more closely resembles...

is an API between OpenGL and the windowing system interface of Windows. WGL is analogous to EGL, which is an interface between rendering APIs such as...

proprietary API, and was later open sourced by 3dfx. It was dedicated to rendering performance, supporting geometry and texture mapping primarily, in data...

bee (Apis cerana), which occurs in South, Southeast, and East Asia. Only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees, but some other types of bees produce...

as of June 2017. macOS games using Metal for rendering are listed below. Direct3D – DirectX 12 introduces low-level APIs. Mantle – low-level API by AMD...

Immediate mode is an API design pattern in computer graphics libraries, in which the client calls directly cause rendering of graphics objects to the display...

and the rendering engine executes them immediately. When using this method, the developer must write code that specifically tells the rendering engine...

measurement APIs will report vertical advances instead of horizontal ones, and Canvas will draw text vertically. The first developer preview of Android 16...

kernel–user space APIs of other systems implementing the POSIX API also provide additional features not defined in POSIX. The Linux API, by choice, has...

of APIs that removed these features to make it easier to implement on common hardware. The best known of these is MiniGL, which is not a separate API...

Retrieved 7 March 2025. "Server React DOM APIs". React Documentation. Meta Platforms. Retrieved 7 March 2025. "Rendering (Next.js Documentation)". Next.js Documentation...

interface with multiple ones and also with rendering APIs such as OpenGL, OpenVG, or EGL. The look and feel of the graphical control elements can be hard-coded...

and placement. The following list is not exhaustive. Also, it mixes game engines with rendering engines as well as API bindings without any distinctions...

Mantle was a low-overhead rendering API targeted at 3D video games. AMD originally developed Mantle in cooperation with DICE, starting in 2013. Mantle...

between the traditional GL API and other high-performance low-level rendering APIs. Back-face culling Culling (discarding) of polygons that are facing backwards...

crowdfunding. Mesa is known as housing implementations of graphic APIs. Historically the main API that Mesa has implemented is OpenGL, along with other...

The Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) is the framework comprising the modern Linux graphics stack which allows unprivileged user-space programs to...

The Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging (ATSUI) is the set of services for rendering Unicode-encoded text introduced in Mac OS 8.5 and carried forward...

of API design in graphics libraries, in which the graphics library, instead of the client, retains the scene (complete object model of the rendering primitives)...

visualization and computer graphics, volume rendering is a set of techniques used to display a 2D projection of a 3D discretely sampled data set, typically...

(OpenGL ES or GLES) is a subset of the OpenGL computer graphics rendering application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D computer graphics...

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