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...

Retained mode in computer graphics is a major pattern of API design in graphics libraries, in which the graphics library, instead of the client, retains...

Immediate mode may refer to Immediate mode (computer graphics), a graphical rendering mode Immediate mode GUI, GUI or widget toolkit implemented using...

camera modes Direct mode, a software configuration where text input is processed outside of an application Immediate mode (computer graphics), a graphic...

Image file format Image plane Image resolution Image scaling Immediate mode (computer graphics) Implicit surface Importance sampling Impossible object Inbetweening...

developers to draw 3D graphics: immediate mode and retained mode. In immediate mode, graphics commands are issued directly into the graphics pipeline and the...

for the internal components of a desktop computer. Modern personal computers universally use switched-mode power supplies. Some power supplies have a...

managing and mode setting, memory-sharing objects and memory synchronization. Some of these expansions were given specific names, such as Graphics Execution...

Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers. Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film...

a glossary of terms relating to computer graphics. For more general computer hardware terms, see glossary of computer hardware terms. Contents 0–9 A B...

Feiner (1990). "Spatial-partitioning representations; Surface detail". Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. The Systems Programming Series. Addison-Wesley...

II graphics debuted on the original Apple II in 1977 and were used throughout the computer series of the same name. There is a 16 color 40 × 24 mode (low...

hardware and software computer technology to "augment" human intelligence. That November, while attending a conference on computer graphics in Reno, Nevada...

stored in the computer's memory and executed by ANTIC in real-time, can specify blank lines, any of six text modes and eight graphics modes, which sections...

a simple set of floating-point SIMD instructions dedicated to 3D computer graphics; MDMX (MaDMaX), a more extensive integer SIMD instruction set using...

computers with a bitmap graphics display. It was a desktop workstation with an LSI-11 compatible processor, a graphical framebuffer, and a text mode with...

Reality Lab was a 3D computer graphics API created by RenderMorphics to provide a standardized interface for writing games. It was one of the main contenders...

Tiled rendering is the process of subdividing a computer graphics image by a regular grid in optical space and rendering each section of the grid, or...

providing the use of 2D and 3D graphics in interactive media ties. Direct3D contains many commands for 3D computer graphics rendering; however, since version...

OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API...

that access the main memory of the computer. The design of the CPU allows RISC computers few simple addressing modes and predictable instruction times...

supported several thousand graphics terminals distributed worldwide, running on nearly a dozen different networked mainframe computers. Many modern concepts...

is an LSI ASIC dedicated to generating 2D computer graphics to be shown on a television screen or computer display. Under the direction of Jay Miner,...

at the same clock frequency. For instance, the common register+immediate addressing mode was significantly faster than on the 8086, especially when a memory...

Interactive Graphics System) is an application programming interface (API) standard for rendering 3D computer graphics, considered to be the 3D graphics standard...

contains graphics device drivers supporting some form of 2D rendering acceleration. In the past, mode-setting was done by an X-server graphics device driver...

memory. Modes 0 to 6 could show diacritics and other user defined characters. All modes except mode 7 supported bitmapped graphics, but graphics commands...

Tandy-specific features, such as enhanced graphics, sound, and a built-in joystick port, made the computers particularly attractive for home use. The...

fast page mode DRAM (FPM-RAM) which took typically two or three clocks to transfer one word of data. PC66 refers to internal removable computer memory standard...

as well as in PCs by way of graphics cards. Optical media via CD-ROMs began to be incorporated into personal computers and consoles, including Sony's...