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Byline: Serdar Yegulalp Mozilla has submitted a proposal to the the Khronos Group, the stewards of the OpenGL and the more recent Vulkan graphics APIs, for a next-generation web graphics [...]

Sophisticated computer data visualization techniques are sought by astronomers, businesses and the military, but the field is very new. Data visualization has been used for centuries, especially with maps, but traditional graphic techniques must be translated to computers. Overcoming aesthetic limitations and developing methods by which data visualization can be delivered across the Internet are two primary challenges for the industry.

The New 3DO Company Plays the Graphics Card Readers who have taught in elementary schools, or whose memories carry back to the fourth and fifth grades, will recall the medicine […]

To date, no protocol has been widely adopted for remote graphics rendering on multimedia-capable embedded applications such as mobile devices. These devices face several challenges that have delayed making such [...]

WARRENDALE, Pa. -- AIM Global, the trade association recognized as an authority on automatic identification and mobility, announced that the public review draft of the International Symbology Specification-Datastrip 2D developed [...]

Graphic chips help display fonts without a bit map Many times the highly stylized characters visible on certain video displays give only a rough impression of what the text in […]

Desktop-Publishing Software The expanding market for desktop-publishing software for the IBM PC and compatible computers is reaching a second phase of development almost before the first generation of products has [...]

IBM's PS/2 Series computers and their Video Graphics Array (VGA) graphics controllers are less than one year old, and already the market is thick with competing versions of the controller [...]

It's only logical: The best way to view 3D computer-generated images is in 3D. Unfortunately, seemingly logical assumptions can often be rendered impossible by physical limitations. Computer screens, for example, […]

A novel color-recovery scheme allows 8-bit graphics subsystems to deliver close to 24-bit color images. Developed by engineers at the Workstation Products Division of the Hewlett-Packard Co., Chelmsford, Mass., the […]

Compaq to Buy 13% of SGI MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Compaq Computer Corp. last week agreed to take a 13 percent equity stake in Silicon Graphics Inc. for $135 million […]

COMPUTER-GENERATED HUMAN FACES USUALLY LOOK PLASTIC and unconvincing on the silver screen; one of the biggest problems is getting simulated light to bounce off the skin just right. Now computer […]

Adobe Systems, Inc. has announced the submission of a proposal to improve creation of and access to vector graphics for Web content. Adobe teamed with IBM, Netscape, and Sun Microsystems […]

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Technical Computing Business Unit is planning to make a major announcement by the end of the year about technology that will increase the graphics capabilities of workstations by […]

Robert Riter is a 13-year-old computer artist who designs graphics and presentations for multi-player computer games. Riter, who first learned programming at the age of seven, uses Caligari's TrueSpace and Autodesk's Animator Pro as his 3-D tools. He foresees eventually creating a virtual reality system. Meanwhile, he is busy creating graphics for a forthcoming Dark Force Productions game called 'Worm Hole.', Robert Riter would almost qualify as one more college student holding down a part-time job; except that this State University of New York student is 13 years old 'and' a [...]

IBM (White Plains, NY) has announced five new RISC System/6000 models and new software products to expand the performance of its successful line of RISC-based workstations introduced in 1990. The [...]

Developers Ponder Choices Among Graphic Environments It's almost enough to make a programmer yearn for the simpler days. With nearly a dozen graphical user interfaces andoperating environments soon to be […]

GRAPHICS JAZZ UP NEW CDs Hoping to catch a 'Gilligan's Island' rerun, I strolled up to a television monitor on display at the most recent Consumer Electronics Show. I saw [...]

COMPUTERS are brushing up their childish artistic skills. A decade or so ago even the most powerful machines could manage little better than a graph or a crude cartoon. Today [...]

Hercules Hopes '88 Plans Will Regain Its Champ Status BERKELEY, Calif.--Armed with new products and increased support for its RamFont technology, Hercules Computer Corp. hopes to regain its former heavyweight […]

New TI Graphics Chip Leaves Manufacturers Champing at the Byte Now that officials at Texas Instruments Inc. have announced the development of the TMS34020 GSP (Graphics System Processor), graphics product […]

IBM Courts NeXT and Apollo for AIX Support In an attempt to shore up support for AIX, its flavor of Unix, IBM has been pursuing joint development and strategic alliances […]

IBM Developing High-Res Chip for Graphics on PS/2 WINCHESTER, England--IBM engineers here are developing a graphics coprocessor for the PS/2 that is pegged for high-resolution desktop-publishing applications, according to sources […]