Glide
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abstract: Glide is a 3D graphics API developed by 3dfx Interactive for their Voodoo Graphics 3D accelerator cards. Although it originally started as a proprietary API, it was later open sourced by 3dfx. It was dedicated to rendering performance, supporting geometry and texture mapping primarily, in data formats identical to those used internally in their cards. Wide adoption of 3Dfx led to Glide being extensively used in the late 1990s, but further refinement of Microsoft's Direct3D and the appearance of full OpenGL implementations from other graphics card vendors, in addition to growing diversity in 3D hardware, eventually caused it to become superfluous.
type: Work
author: 3dfx Interactive
wiki page revision ID: 749070110
latest release version: 3.10.00.30303
latest release version: 3.1
subject: Category:Cross-platform free software
subject: Category:Graphics libraries
operating system: Cross-platform
wiki page ID: 1255947
wiki page out degree: 30
subject: Category:Application programming interfaces
author: 3
type: Q386724
genre: 3D graphics
license: GNU General Public License
wiki page revision link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glide_(API)&oldid=749070110
wiki page extracted: 2017-02-20T08:37:36Z
subject: Category:3D computer graphics
subject: Category:Video game development software
label: Glide (API)
comment: Glide is a 3D graphics API developed by 3dfx Interactive for their Voodoo Graphics 3D accelerator cards. Although it originally started as a proprietary API, it was later open sourced by 3dfx. It was dedicated to rendering performance, supporting geometry and texture mapping primarily, in data formats identical to those used internally in their cards.
latest release date: 2003-09-02
wiki page edit link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glide_(API)&action=edit
programming language: Assembly, C
subject: Category:Free 3D graphics software
wiki page history link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glide_(API)&action=history
subject: Category:3D graphics APIs
wiki page modified: 2016-11-12T05:39:04Z
type: Q7397
type: Thing

Glide (API)
contributor: Andy M. Wang
type: Document
primary topic: Glide
language: en

Andy M. Wang
contributor ID: 516856