User`s guide

Viewing 3D Graphics

RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION’s 3D Acceleration

features supports the following advanced 3D graphics

capabilities:

• OpenGL Support.

• QuickDraw 3D RAVE Support.

• Twin Cache Architecture.

• Single Pass Multi-texturing.

• Triangle Setup Engine.

• Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering.

• Line Anti-aliasing.

• Specular Highlights.

• Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping.

• Mip-Mapping.

• Z-buffering and Double-buffering.

• Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid, 3D Texturing and Cubic

environment mapping.

In addition, the RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION brings

new and exciting graphics technologies to the Macintosh

platform:

SMOOTHVISION

™

is an anti-aliasing solution that raises the

bar for image quality using programmable multi-sampling

methods to post-process graphics before they are displayed.

SMARTSHADER

™

(supported in Mac OS X only) is a new

technology which revolutionizes the graphics pipeline by

making both the geometry processing and pixel processing

stages more programmable than ever before. Developers can

easily create amazing new graphics effects while maintaining a

high level of performance.