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Tag results: Graphics

Painting With Light

How a little box and stylus revolutionized television graphics. You may not know but the Quantel Paintbox is, but you’ve seen its impact.

Mar 25, 2022

Open To Conversion

From PCX to TGA to VRML, considering a number of image formats that the world forgot. Not every image standard is going to last, no matter how pretty it is.

Nov 10, 2021

No Shortage of GPUs Here

What makes a GPU a GPU, and when did we start calling it that? Turns out that’s a more complicated question than it sounds.

Mar 26, 2021

Web the RIPper

Most people remember bulletin board systems as having chunky text-based graphics. One developer tried fixing that, but RIPscrip ran head-first into the web.

Jul 21, 2020

Enter The Matrox

Is there a more misunderstood technology company than Matrox? Let’s ponder the second life of the graphics card maker, long considered a 3D graphics also-ran.

Apr 23, 2019

 Related Tags: television, graphic design, television industry, television history, file formats, 3d graphics, 3dfx, bbs, bulletin boards, rip, design, amd, Matrox, graphics, graphics cards, Matrox Mystique, ati, nvidia, Lorne Trottier, Branko Matic

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