beachnut opened this issue on Feb 19, 2005 ยท 15 posts
SamTherapy posted Sat, 19 February 2005 at 3:29 PM
Simple answer, it's a graphics protocol which allows computers and graphics cards to shove high quality images to a screen really quickly without the need for the main processor to do a lot of number crunching. It allows 3D games to look very impressive with all kinds of things happening at once, and gives 3D imaging and modelling applications a WYSIAWYG (What You See Is Almost What You Get) front end.
Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.