When a videogame wants to show a scene, it sends the GPU a list of objects described using triangles (most 3D models are broken down into triangles). The GPU then runs a sequence called a rendering ...

Apple TV’s in-camera ident highlights craft over CGI; Channel 4’s 1982 launch ident once did the opposite, pioneering broadcast 3D graphics. A comparison of two branding moments separated by four ...

The best '80s game consoles include the NES and Sega Genesis.

Plenty of our childhoods had at least one math teacher who made the (ultimately erroneous) claim that we needed to learn to do math because we wouldn’t always have a calculator in our ...

A federal appeals court has backed the dismissal of a ghost gun company’s lawsuit against the State of New Jersey, which in 2018 banned the use of their software to make 3D-printed firearms. The ...

Arcturus Stage creates a 3D map of a sports field in real time, but how will this impact creatives and the wider human ...

Although often tossed together into a singular ‘retro game’ aesthetic, the first game consoles that focused on 3D graphics like the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation featured very ...

One night in 2010, Mohit Gupta decided to try something before leaving the lab. Then a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon ...

Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis—not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass cases ...

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You can't buy a more powerful gaming platform than a tricked-out desktop. Here's everything you need to know, part by part, to pick the right prebuilt gaming PC, plus current favorites culled from PC ...