3d Graphics






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Today in class we were told to research 3d graphics pipeline and Application Programming Interfaces.

The two major APIs are Open GL and Direct 3D. Direct 3d being used mainly by Microsoft. I found that OpenGL was used for some very popular games, such as Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2, and even World of Warcraft, which shows that it is a very accomplished program, and does the job it was built for very well.

Nintendo use a version of this program which they call GX which they transformed themselves for use on their consoles. Sony also use OpenGL instead of the Microsoft program for many of their games.

As Direct 3D is a Microsoft program, it makes sense that they should use it for many of their games.

The graphics pipeline is a term used to describe the process of turning a 3D model into a 2d rasterised image. This is my attempt at writing a graphics pipeline.