Today's PC gamers can consider themselves lucky when it comes to choosing a graphics card (relatively, of course). While there are only three GPU manufacturers, every model they produce is almost ...

Early computers devoid of graphical interfaces performed the exacting calculations necessary to design the atomic bomb, but they proved less than optimal for trading pictures of kittens. Early ...

With computer graphics that are so good that you might not even notice them, it's easy to forget just how far we've come. That's where the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California comes in ...

Our inborn 3D view of the world, created when the brain combines two images (one from each eye), helps a great deal when we’re catching a baseball, avoiding a herd of stampeding water buffalo, and ...

Those of us who lived through the time without meaning—otherwise known as the mid-1990s—understand the definition of “tease.” Game publishers of the day were suddenly and mysteriously quite capable of ...

Graphics Cards Resident Evil Requiem's path tracing is tough on GPUs but it probably won't take as long as ray tracing did to become a mainstream option in games Hardware 'We had 16 megahertz CPUs, ...

3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3DCG or three-dimensional computer graphics (in contrast to 2D computer graphics), are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric ...

Over the last few years, there has been increasing interest in 3D online games and virtual worlds. Yet, while many players are only hearing of Second Life and There for the first time--as suggested by ...

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 3D ...

3D computer graphics (in contrast to 2D computer graphics) are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing ...