ATI 9550 User Guide - Page 8

Viewing 3D Graphics RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION's 3D Acceleration features supports the following advanced 3D graphics capabilities: • OpenGL Support. • QuickDraw 3D RAVE Support. • Twin Cache Architecture. • Single Pass Multi-texturing. • Triangle Setup Engine. • Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering. • Line Anti-aliasing. • Specular Highlights. • Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping. • Mip-Mapping. • Z-buffering and Double-buffering. • Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid, 3D Texturing and Cubic environment mapping. In addition, the RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION brings new and exciting graphics technologies to the Macintosh platform: SMOOTHVISION™ is an anti-aliasing solution that raises the bar for image quality using programmable multi-sampling methods to post-process graphics before they are displayed. SMARTSHADER™ (supported in Mac OS X only) is a new technology which revolutionizes the graphics pipeline by making both the geometry processing and pixel processing stages more programmable than ever before. Developers can easily create amazing new graphics effects while maintaining a high level of performance. 5