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 ...

Over the last few years, there has been increasing interest in 3D online games and virtual worlds. In fact, fully 3D social spaces have been around at least since the mid-1980s, and some would argue ...

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 ...

Nvidia is on the verge of rolling out a new generation of graphics cards based on its Ampere architecture, and if the rumors are on the money, the GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 are going to be absolute ...

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 ...

Gaming Industry Doom co-creator John Romero adores Ghost Recon and has over 3,000 hours in World of Warcraft: 'God, I lived in that game every day for five years' Hardware A fraction of the most ...

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 ...