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These APIs have also proved vital to computer graphics hardware manufacturers, as they provide a way for programmers to access the hardware in an abstract way, while still taking advantage of the special hardware of any specific graphics card. The first 3D graphics framework was probably Core, published by the ACM in 1977.
In the summer of 2004, Java 3D was released as a community source project, and Sun and volunteers have since been continuing its development. On January 29, 2008, it was announced that improvements to Java 3D would be put on hold to produce a 3D scene graph for JavaFX [1] JavaFX with 3D support was eventually released with Java 8. [2]
Immediate mode is an API design pattern in computer graphics libraries, in which . the client calls directly cause rendering of graphics objects to the display, or in which; the data to describe rendering primitives is inserted frame by frame directly from the client into a command list (in the case of immediate mode primitive rendering),
Rendering APIs typically provide just enough functionality to abstract a graphics accelerator, focussing on rendering primitives, state management, command lists/command buffers; and as such differ from fully fledged 3D graphics libraries, 3D engines (which handle scene graphs, lights, animation, materials etc.), and GUI frameworks; Some provide fallback software rasterisers, which were ...
Real-time computer graphics or real-time rendering is the sub-field of computer graphics focused on producing and analyzing images in real time. The term can refer to anything from rendering an application's graphical user interface ( GUI ) to real-time image analysis , but is most often used in reference to interactive 3D computer graphics ...
Retained mode in computer graphics is a major pattern of API design in graphics libraries, [1] in which . the graphics library, instead of the client, retains the scene (complete object model of the rendering primitives) to be rendered and
The term "neural rendering" is sometimes used when a neural network is the primary means of generating an image but some degree of control over the output image is provided. [8] Neural networks can also assist rendering without replacing traditional algorithms, e.g. by removing noise from path traced images.
A unified 2D rendering API (SVG/HTML5 canvas/VML/PDF) with java.awt.Graphics2D compatibility; Integrated PDF rendering for Widgets, Graphics (Charts) and HTML/CSS, to generate reports; Both client-side and server-side validation; Various automatic built-in security features to avoid cross-site scripting and CSRF vulnerabilities.