Thursday Night Live with Melody Lane

Diego Rivera’s Powerful Messages in Mexican Muralism

Art, in any form, is one of the best, non-verbal medium to express oneself. Many artists relay their views, political and otherwise, through their work. For instance, Mexican artist Diego Rivera’s murals conveyed powerful messages that were perceptible to everyone.

3D Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

Currently, there are plug-ins that enable the user to export directly from your 3D Application into Playstation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, and Direct Draw formats. More plug-ins are always under construction to support the myriad of real-time formats being used in gaming.

About 3D Graphics

Three-D graphics require much less storage than their 2D counterparts because the 3D pictures are not pre-drawn (with the exception of texture maps). The “recipe” for the 3D picture (meshes and animation) is stored as a mass of formulas and called up when needed.

Preview the “Look” of the Finished Product

Fortunately, your 3D Application is a dream tool for creating real-time graphics. Your 3D Application not only provides excellent modeling tools to control every facet of creating a model, down to the face and vertex level, but it also provides fast, efficient shaded, and texture-mapped views of the model being created.

Modeling For Real-Time 3D Games

No area of 3D graphics is garnering as much attention as real-time gaming and no other area shows as much potential for massive growth in the next few years. Real-time 3D is only in its infancy in the consumer market. Set-top gaming systems that support real time are in their first generation.