User`s guide

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Viewing 3D Graphics
RADEON 7000 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
These features make it possible to quickly render 3D graphics,
produce atmospheric effects, calculate light and color shading,
and determine which objects are in the foreground and which
are in the background.
RADEON
7000 MAC EDITION only displays 3D graphics in
thousands and millions of colors. When you use 256 colors,
there are too few colors to display complex 3D textures, so 3D
acceleration is not supported.
You can use the 3D Memory Monitor to see how memory on
your
RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION is allocated when displaying
3D graphics. This allows you to optimize 3D performance.
The 3D Memory Monitor is only supported in Mac OS 9.
NOTE