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A skybox is a method of creating backgrounds to make a video game level appear larger than it really is. [1] When a skybox is used, the level is enclosed in a cuboid.The sky, distant mountains, distant buildings, and other unreachable objects are projected onto the cube's faces (using a technique called cube mapping), thus creating the illusion of distant three-dimensional surroundings.
The ancient Egyptian royal cubit (meh niswt) is the earliest attested standard measure.Cubit rods were used for the measurement of length.A number of these rods have survived: two are known from the tomb of Maya, the treasurer of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun, in Saqqara; another was found in the tomb of Kha in Thebes.
Another application which found widespread use in video games is projective texture mapping. It relies on cube maps to project images of an environment onto the surrounding scene; for example, a point light source is tied to a cube map which is a panoramic image shot from inside a lantern cage or a window frame through which the light is filtering.
Some of the earliest video games were text games or text-based games that used text characters instead of bitmapped or vector graphics.Examples include MUDs (multi-user dungeons), where players could read or view depictions of rooms, objects, other players, and actions performed in the virtual world; and roguelikes, a subgenre of role-playing video games featuring many monsters, items, and ...
Classic 2D graphics chips and graphics processing units of the late 1970s to 1980s, used in 8-bit to early 16-bit, arcade games, video game consoles, and home computers, include: Atari, Inc.'s TIA, ANTIC, CTIA and GTIA; Capcom's CPS-A and CPS-B; Commodore's OCS; MOS Technology's VIC and VIC-II; Hudson Soft's Cynthia and HuC6270; NEC's μPD7220 ...
According to a new study from Johns Hopkins University, a fairly simple computer game helps kids improve in math.
This is a list of computer graphics and descriptive geometry topics, by article name. 2D computer graphics; 2D geometric model; 3D computer graphics; 3D projection; Alpha compositing; Anisotropic filtering; Anti-aliasing; Axis-aligned bounding box; Axonometric projection; Bézier curve; Bézier surface; Bicubic interpolation; Bilinear ...
Computer graphics is the field of visual computing, where one utilizes computers both to generate visual images synthetically and to integrate or alter visual and spatial information sampled from the real world.