The X Rendering Extension (Render or XRender) is an extension to the X11 core protocol to implement image compositing in the X server, to allow an efficient...
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The X video extension, often abbreviated as XVideo or Xv, is a video output mechanism for the X Window System. The protocol was designed by David Carver;...
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clients using the GLX extension for indirect rendering (for example, remote X clients that can't use direct rendering). For 2D rendering, the DDX driver must...
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(Keith Packard) X Window System Network Performance (Keith Packard and Jim Gettys, 2003) Design and Implementation of the X Rendering Extension (Keith Packard...
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Xft (category X-based libraries)
rasterizer to be used with the X Rendering Extension; it is generally employed to use FreeType's anti-aliased fonts with the X Window System. Xft also depends...
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GLX (category X Window extensions)
"OpenGL Extension to the X Window System") is an extension to the X Window System core protocol providing an interface between OpenGL and the X Window...
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rendering engine. pdfTeX has several features not available in standard TeX: Native TrueType and Type 1 font embedding Micro-typographic extensions such...
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advanced instruction set extensions like SSE. Although nowadays the dominance of hardware rendering over software rendering is undisputed because of unparalleled...
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DRM was first developed as the kernel-space component of the X Server Direct Rendering Infrastructure, but since then it has been used by other graphic...
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X-Video Motion Compensation (XvMC), is an extension of the X video extension (Xv) for the X Window System. The XvMC API allows video programs to offload...
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Rendering is the process of generating a photorealistic or non-photorealistic image from input data such as 3D models. The word "rendering" (in one of...
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Wayland (protocol) (section Rendering model)
components (i.e. Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI), Direct Rendering Manager (DRM)) "in the middle", with "window systems like X and Wayland ... off in...
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OpenGL (redirect from OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library)
cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with...
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PHIGS (category X-based libraries)
used within the X Window System, supported via PEX. PEX consisted of an extension to X, adding commands that would be forwarded from the X server to the...
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VirtualGL (redirect from Indirect rendering)
required the use of "indirect rendering." Indirect rendering uses the GLX extension to the X Window System ("X11" or "X") to encapsulate the OpenGL commands...
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Graphics pipeline (redirect from Rendering pipeline)
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[clarification needed] The X.Org Server implements the server side of the X Window System core protocol version 11 (X11) and extensions to it, e.g. RandR. Version...
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down to particular pixels, at various font sizes. With widely varying rendering technologies in use today, pixel-level control is no longer certain in...
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Pages". He is the lead author of the NV path rendering extension—a GPU-accelerated method for rendering vector graphics. Kilgard graduated from Rice University...
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indirect GLX rendering capabilities to the X.Org Server and DRI drivers. This allows remote X clients to get fully hardware accelerated rendering over the...
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OpenAL (redirect from Effects Extension)
application programming interface (API). It is designed for efficient rendering of multichannel three-dimensional positional audio. Its API style and...
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require it. X has largely kept to these principles since. The X.Org Foundation develops the reference implementation with a view to extension and improvement...
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EXA (category X-based libraries)
of the X.Org Server (see also X Window System) designed to replace XAA (the XFree86 Acceleration Architecture) and to make the XRender extension more usable...
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MacOS version history (redirect from Mac OS X History)
macOS, Apple's current Mac operating system formerly named Mac OS X until 2011 and then OS X until 2016, began with the company's project to replace its "classic"...
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Google Chrome (redirect from Google Chrome extension)
but Chrome is licensed as proprietary freeware. WebKit was the original rendering engine, but Google eventually forked it to create the Blink engine; all...
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user. X's network protocol is based on X command primitives. This approach allows both 2D and (through extensions like GLX) 3D operations by an X client...
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buffer object architecture (FBO) is an extension to OpenGL for doing flexible off-screen rendering, including rendering to a texture. By capturing images that...
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Hoffman (6 August 2018). Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-351-81615-1. Perera, S.; Barnes, N.; He, X.; Izadi, S.; Kohli, P.; Glocker...
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Markup Language (HTML) documents. The LaTeX system is a markup language that handles typesetting and rendering, and can be arbitrarily extended by using...
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