3D card Information 07 Jul 1998
Marc
Saric's 3D graphics for FS98 Information on simFlight.
Tom's Hardware Guide has just had a pretty
good update
General 3D card info
VoodooExtreme's excellent hardware
section.
Chipset
Overview at Dimension3D (and Chipset Chooser:Chipsets by Target Audience)
3D Gen's Buyers Guide
More from VE: A bunch of technical articles about 3D technology, for your Sunday afternoon reading.
S-Buffering
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tomh/sbuffer.htm
Clipping Polygons
http://home1.gte.net/reillyp/polyclip.htm3D-to-2D : Perspective Transformation and Clipping
http://home1.gte.net/reillyp/perspect.htm
Efficient Antialiasing
Isosurface Generation
Shadow Rendering Algorithms
http://www.scs.ryerson..ca/h2jang/gfx5.htm
Bilinear Interpolation Of Texture Maps
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tomh/bilerp.htmAn old article form Intel about anisotropic filtering
http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-12597/3dxtc/articles/anisotropic.htm
An article on the CPU's of the next-generation 3D systems at CPU Madness, and a soon-to-be-published accompanying article on 3D video at Computer Heaven.
Hasten to NextGen, for they have updated their most excellent 3D accelerator FAQ.
From Psychonews, via Op3Dfx: MSK entertainment, a development company they introduced the other day, in regards to their 3D futuristic space flight simulator, Planet Of War, have decided to shorten the path to 3D graphics for programmers by putting some 3D-programming tutors online :
3D basics
- basic 3D equations, ROOKIE
Linear Texture Mapping - non-perspective texture mapping, NOVICE
Perspective Correct Texture Mapping - perspective texture mapping, CADET
Tom's Hardware: a Graphics Chip Review
with side by side comparisons, and a few opinions about the next batch of
3D cards.
Editorial on Multi-Monitor
Support.
Cool Tech site: AnandTech.com
For you multi-carders: DirectControl
version 1.0.34. CombatSim has part
1 of their 3d hardware survey.
DirectX6.0beta.
Texture memory: Check
it out
There is a cool article on Bootnet on 3D visual quality. And
this Comparison at Tom's
Hardware is required reading.
Wanna see what trilinear filtering is? Look at the
article at 3D
Generation.
Michael Fleming has a new page at VE, "3D Overtime", with two
editorials: "AGP:
Myth and Truth" and Bandwidth basics.
3DXTC have updated their
Upcoming 3D chips article and chart.
Comparative Hardware Reviews:
3D Video Card Roundup
Tom's early AGP Card Review.
GameSpot's Coming of Age 3D Cards Reviewed
Very good. GameSpot's 3D
Showdown.
PCM&E Spotlight Feature - 3D
The Hype, The Hope, The Reality on
PCM&E Hardware Page
23 3D cards rated and reviewed
and Updated
(but beware, that they say a Voodoo gets 29.6 FPS, then they say the PowerVR is "Damn
close" at 24.3 FPS, but the Adrenaline Rush's 25.4 is "a far cry from the
performance of a standalone Voodoo Graphics card." Strange.)
3D cards surround you with
sound
PC
World 2D/3D boards (Recent but strange)
PC
Games 3D Buyers Guide
17
accelerator cards reviewed at Gamer's Alliance
Review of many new cards at Tom's
Hardware
VM has finished their article on current
and future 3D chips. <----- A
must-read! Make sure you read all the
way thru to the Rankings.
3Dxtc has an article about all the
latest and greatest of the new 3D cards. (you may have to wait to read it though. Looks
like the account owners didn't buy enough hits from their ISP, and the server has stopped
accessing the site, no problem here at bw.ml.org!).
GameSpot has
posted a review of 8 new 3D accelerators.
Mercury
Research just released it's latest bunch of Direct3D benchmarks. Read what news.com had to say.
here is a nice table of new 3D cards at FastGraphics.
FS98 Sites: Look at these sites for FS98 news, reviews, files and tips. If you have an FS98 site, let me know!
3D hardware sites: These are the sites I visit daily.
VoodooExtreme
Operation: 3Dfx (look in the hardware section)
Dimension3D
The Next Dimension
ZD-Net's Graphics page
and 3-D Cards
Gamespot 3D terms
A big list
of all 3D games, and the API's they use
FastGraphics
3D Graphics Primer
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