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Section 4 IMPACT Graphics Subsystem
Features
The IMPACT graphics architecture offers
a combination of features not found on a desktop machine before.
- 36 bit color buffers (12 bits per component RGB)
- 32 bit color buffers (8 bits per component RGBA)
- 12 bit color index buffers
- 24 bit depth buffer
- 8 bit stencil buffer
- 8 bit overlay
- up to 1600x1200 screen resolution*
- HDTV resolution support*
- quad-buffered stereo display in a window
- up to 119 Mpixel/s trilinear mipmapped texture performance*
- highest quality anti-aliased lines at interactive speeds
- over 1.1 million smooth shaded, textured, Z-buffered, fogged triangles per second*
- hardware support for up to 7x7 general and separable convolutions
- 60 Mtexel/s texture download rate
- hardware accelerated offscreen buffers (Pbuffers)
- hardware support for curve and surface evaluation
- hese features only supported on Indigo2 Maximum IMPACT.
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