ATI Technologies 107-40214-20, RADEON MAC EDITION manual Viewing 3D Graphics

Viewing 3D Graphics

RADEON™ MAC® EDITION’s 3D Acceleration features supports the following advanced 3D graphics capabilities:

•OpengGL Support

•QuickDraw 3D Rave Support

•Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting

•Twin Cache Architecture

•Single Pass Multi-texturing

•Triangle Setup Engine

•Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering

•Line & Edge Anti-aliasing

•Full Screen Anti-aliasing

•Specular Highlights

•Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping

•Mip-Mapping

•Z-buffering and Double-buffering

•Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping

These features make it possible to quickly render 3D graphics, produce atmospheric effects, calculate light and color shading, and determine which objects are in the foreground and which are in the background.

RADEON™ MAC® EDITION only displays 3D graphics in thousands and millions of colors. When you use 256 colors, there are too few colors to display complex 3D textures, so 3D acceleration is not supported.

You can use the 3D Memory Monitor to see how memory on your RADEON™ MAC® EDITION is allocated when displaying 3D graphics. This allows you to optimize 3D performance.

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