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    Graphics hardware is computer hardware that generates computer graphics and allows them to be shown on a display, usually using a graphics card (video...
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  • Caustic was founded on the premise that realistic 3D graphics would be easier to create if GPU hardware were as efficient at processing a ray as processing...
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    introduction of such hardware-based enhancements signaled an era of specialized graphics processing in consumer machines. The evolution of graphics processing took...
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    Arcade system boards have used specialized graphics circuits since the 1970s. In early video game hardware, RAM for frame buffers was expensive, so video...
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    or the 640 × 480 resolution characteristic of the VGA hardware. VGA was the last IBM graphics standard to which the majority of IBM PC compatible computer...
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    free and open-source graphics device driver is a software stack which controls computer-graphics hardware and supports graphics-rendering application...
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    form refers to the class of hardware offered by several current and defunct companies such as Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, Apollo Computer, DEC, HP...
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    of specialized hardware and software has been developed, with the displays of most devices being driven by computer graphics hardware. It is a vast and...
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    3dfx (redirect from Voodoo Graphics)
    American computer hardware company headquartered in San Jose, California, founded in 1994, that specialized in the manufacturing of 3D graphics processing units...
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    Intel Graphics Technology (GT) is the collective name for a series of integrated graphics processors (IGPs) produced by Intel that are manufactured on...
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    computer graphics. The Geometry Engine was the first very-large-scale integration (VLSI) implementation of a geometry pipeline, specialized hardware that...
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    OpenGL (redirect from Open graphics library)
    typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit (GPU), to achieve hardware-accelerated rendering. Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) began developing...
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    these specifications to vendor-specific graphics hardware drivers. Its most important users are two graphics drivers mostly developed and funded by Intel...
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    the initial release of Windows. MS-DOS programs had manipulated the graphics hardware using software interrupts (sometimes via the Video BIOS) and by manipulating...
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    mythological sprite. Some hardware manufacturers used different terms, especially before sprite became common: Player/Missile Graphics was a term used by Atari...
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  • General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU, or less often GPGP) is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU), which typically handles...
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    hardware manufacturer Diamond Multimedia in 1999. The resulting company renamed itself to SONICblue Incorporated, and, two years later, the graphics portion...
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  • use of hardware overlays may have to be disabled in the media player. However, some graphics cards have the option to completely redirect hardware overlay...
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  • processes in all stages of computer graphics generation. These APIs have also proved vital to computer graphics hardware manufacturers, as they provide a...
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  • graphics pipeline converts the model into a visually perceivable format on the computer display. Due to the dependence on specific software, hardware...
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  • To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer. These prerequisites...
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  • a relatively large number of companies appeared selling primarily 2D graphics cards and later 3D. Most of those companies have subsequently disappeared...
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    Hardware acceleration is the use of computer hardware designed to perform specific functions more efficiently when compared to software running on a general-purpose...
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    imitate 3D graphics. Different techniques for rendering now exist, such as ray-tracing and rasterization. Using these techniques and advanced hardware, computers...
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    Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the central processing unit (CPU), random-access memory (RAM), motherboard, computer...
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    computer graphics rendering, software rendering refers to a rendering process that is not dependent upon graphics hardware ASICs, such as a graphics card...
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  • Apple 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...
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    graphics are an alternative to raster or bitmap graphics, with each having advantages and disadvantages in specific situations. While vector hardware...
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    The Color Graphics Adapter (CGA), originally also called the Color/Graphics Adapter or IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter, introduced in 1981, was IBM's...
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  • known graphics hardware that is considered to be fixed-function was the IBM 8514/A graphics add-in-board from 1987. When compared to other graphics hardware...
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