Posted 07/21/08 at 06:42:14 PM by Zack Stern

The shiny, new hatchback you nudge in a street race dents slightly on the driver’s side door. Although you’re playing a PC game, created with beaucoup equations, the bend looks almost real. The 3D renderer sculpts all those numbers into images, with help from the video API (application program interface). However, several completely different rendering techniques can be the source of those images. Currently, the hardware and software industries are debating how to best utilize two graphics-rendering techniques: ray tracing and rasterization.

Hit the jump to see how 3D game rendering is changing with hardware advancements. 

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cpu, gpu, 3D gaming, 3D animations, white paper, r&d, pixel, raster, ray tracing, rays

Posted 04/29/08 at 03:29:47 PM by Zack Stern

These technological beasties can take on lives of their own—much like their biological namesakes

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virus, white paper, r&d, features

Posted 03/03/08 at 02:38:24 PM by Zack Stern

It's finally time to put that old rig down, but what happens to your PC in the afterlife?

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white paper, r&d, computer recycling

Posted 02/26/08 at 11:58:31 AM by Will Smith

Touch-screen technology - How new displays put the world at your fingertips.

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Posted 02/11/08 at 01:17:53 PM by Lee Hamrick

Once dismissed as hokum, this LAN technology is finally coming into its own.

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Posted 02/01/08 at 06:53:41 PM by Mike Chin

There’s a lot going on inside a power supply—and no, the magic gnomes that turn your lights on when you hit that switch on the wall aren’t powering your rig as well.

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power supply, PSU, white paper, r&d