Today's PC gamers can consider themselves lucky when it comes to choosing a graphics card (relatively, of course). While there are only three GPU manufacturers, every model they produce is almost ...

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 ...

Using computers that feature a high-resolution, full-color graphical interface is commonplace today, but it took a lot of effort and ingenuity to get to this point. This long history is the topic of ...

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 ...

Founded in San Jose, California in 1994 by a trio of former Silicon Graphics employees, 3Dfx got its start making hardware for arcade machines. The company's first-gen Voodoo chipset powered arcade ...

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 ...