Built-in Video and Graphics Features
The Power Macintosh G3 computers have the following built-in video and graphics capabilities:
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ATI 3D RAGE II+DVD 64-bit graphics and multimedia accelerator on V4.0 F2 ROM logic boards or ATA 3D RAGE PRO-PCI 64-bit graphics and multimedia accelerator on V4.5 F1 and V4.5 F2 ROM logic boards
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2 MB of synchronous graphic RAM (SGRAM)
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Hardware acceleration of 2D QuickDraw graphics and video to speed up scrolling text and graphics and screen redraw operations
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Hardware acceleration of video for full screen, full motion, TV-quality playback of Cinepak and MPEG1 QuickTime movies
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Bilinear hardware interpolation and scaling
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Accelerates 3D QuickDraw rendering up to 6 times that of software-only rendering
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Real-time 3D shaded object manipulation, animation, and virtual world navigation
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Includes 16-bit Z buffer for hidden texture surface removal
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Provides six perspectively correct texture mapping functions
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Alpha blending, transparency, and fog effects
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Flat and Gouraud shading
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Video textures and video lighting
The graphics acceleration features enhance the realism of 3D interactive application software and games.
For information about the supported display modes for video input and QuickDraw 2D and QuickDraw 3D acceleration capabilities, see
Video Input and Graphics Acceleration Display Modes
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© 1998 Apple Computer, Inc. - Revised 8/13/98