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Donning their historian caps, Maximum PC have gone through the archives and posted a complete history of perhaps the biggest thing to hit PC gaming in the last 20 years: the 3D graphics card. Some of ...

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 ...

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 ...

NVIDIA's 1999 GeForce 256 graphics card revolutionized computing by introducing parallel processing, initially for games.

On March 18, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded computer science and electrical engineering professor Patrick M. “Pat” Hanrahan the prestigious Turing Award for his work on 3D ...

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 ...

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 ...

Computer scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by Evangelos Kalogerakis today unveiled a new software modeling program that uses sophisticated geometric matching and machine ...