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QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card
Features
Workstation-class 3D acceleration
- Accelerates QuickDraw 3D rendering to speeds as high as 12 times faster
- Renders 10 million trilinearly filtered, mipmapped texture pixels per
second
- Renders up to 120,000 triangles per second
- Accelerates Gouraud shading, texture mapping, transparency, and Constructive
Solid Geometry (CSG)
- Continually enables trilinear filtering, mipmapping, diffuse and specular
lighting, producing very high quality texture mapped images
- Uses high-performance SRAM memory to display up to 12 texture maps in each
open window
- Outputs an alpha channel, making it fast and easy to transfer images between
applications
- Offers hardware-accelerated per-pixel Z sorting for precise rendering of
transparent surfaces or CSG, regardless of submission order or interpenetration
Affordability
- Offers workstation-class 3D acceleration at a fraction of the price
- Accelerates 3D rendering to all frame buffers in the system with a single card
Scalability
- Enables you to double hardware rendering performance by simply adding a second card
Ease of use
- Installs quickly and easily in a single step
- Requires no video connectors
- Provides an easy-to-use, intuitive view of 3D interactions
Compatibility
- Works with all Macintosh and Performa models with a PCI slot, such as the Power Macintosh 9500/132 and 8500/120
- Works with any computer running the Mac OS that has PCI slots
- Works with any application package that supports QuickDraw 3D
Description
The QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card brings workstation-class 3D acceleration to
any Power Macintosh or Macintosh Performa computer with a Peripheral Component
Interconnect (PCI) slot. It's an easy-to-use and affordable solution for
anyone who wants to quickly and efficiently create or work with 3D objects and
scenes on a desktop computer.
Featuring a compact (6.88-inch) design, the QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card
provides exceptional per-formance at a highly affordable price. It plugs easily
into the PCI slot of your Power Macintosh (or other PCI-equipped computer
running the Mac OS) to let you design high-quality 3D scenes and shade and
text-ure objects faster than ever before. You can interact smoothly with 3D
models that cover the full screen, even when performing CSG or posi-tioning
texture maps. And you'll find that the motion in your 3D animations flows
smoothly and looks natural.
To accomplish this workstation-class performance, the QuickDraw 3D Accelerator
Card works in con-junction with QuickDraw 3D, a cross-platform application
program interface (API) that is an emerging standard in the area of
computer-based 3D graphics and animations. By itself, QuickDraw 3D was designed
to take advantage of PowerPC RISC technology to provide real-time, interactive
rendering for simple models. The QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card enhances this
capability, enabling you to use your Macintosh computer to work in real time
with much larger and more complicated models.
With complex 3D models rapidly becoming the standard in computer-based
graphics, high-speed 3D ren-dering capabilities are increasingly a necessity
for many computer users. So whether you're an architect, a graphic artist, a
multimedia developer, a scientist who works with visualization, or simply a 3D
game enthusiast, the QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card can make your interactions
with on-screen images significantly faster and better--at an affordable
price.
Technical Specifications
Memory
- 128K SRAM cache
- 512K of high-speed SRAM texture memory, for up to 12 texture maps
- Does not include frame buffer
ASICs
- Includes two custom ASICs. Rendering engine is based on state-of-the-art O.5u technology
Acceleration capabilities
- Accelerates QuickDraw 3D rendering to speeds as high as 12 times faster
- Renders 10 million trilinearly filtered, mipmapped texture pixels per second
- Renders up to 120,000 triangles per second
- Accelerates Gouraud shading, texture mapping, transparency, and Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)
- Continually enables trilinear filtering, and mipmapping diffuse and specular lighting producing very high quality texture mapped images
- Uses high-performance SRAM memory to display up to 12 texture maps in each open window
- Outputs an alpha channel, making it fast and easy to transfer images between applications
- Offers hardware-accelerated per-pixel Z sorting for precise rendering of transparent surfaces or CSG, regardless of submission order or interpenetration
- A single card accelerates 3D rendering to all frame buffers in the system
Environmental requirements
- Operating temperature: 50deg. to 104deg. F (10deg. to 40deg. C)
- Humidity: 20% to 95% noncondensing
Standards compliance/agency approvals
- PCI 2.1 compliant, IEEE 802.5 and 802.2
System requirements
- An Apple Power Macintosh computer with PCI slots or another PCI-equipped computer running the Mac OS
- Macintosh system software version 7.5.2 or later; system enabler 1.1 or later
- At least 16MB of RAM
- A hard disk drive
- A CD-ROM drive for installing software
Ordering Information
QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card
- Order No. M4333LL/A (U.S.); M4333ZM/A (elsewhere)
- QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card
- CD-ROM containing driver software and sample 3D clip art
- Instruction booklet for easy installation
- Limited warranty
Product specifications are subject to change. Check with your Apple reseller
for the most current information about product specifications and
configurations.
(c) 1995 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved.
Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh, Performa, and Power Macintosh are trademarks
of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S.A. and other countries. Mac and
QuickDraw are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. PowerPC is a trademark of
International Business Machines Corporation, used under license there from.
Mention of non-Apple products is for informational purposes only and
constitutes neither an endors-ment nor a recommendation. Apple assumes no
responsibility with regard to the selection, performance, or use of these
products. All understandings, agreements, or warranties, if any, take place
directly between the vendors and the prospective users.
September 1995. Product specifications are subject to change without notice.
Printed in U.S.A.
L01593A
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