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	Fahrenheit graphics API
		Fahrenheit was an effort to create a unified API for 3D computer graphics.
		However the hardware was not ready at the time, and the tile based API was not appropriate for the scene graph based video cards that were just starting to become common.
		Fahrenheit would include a new scene graph based API that would work on top of either existing system, with no performance penalty when converting down to the underlying system.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fa/Fahrenheit_graphics_API.html (506 words)

	Fahrenheit graphics API - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Fahrenheit was an effort to create a unified high-level API for 3D computer graphics.
		SGI was to provide the primary "mid-sized" API used in most applications, Fahrenheit Scene Graph, as well as a modified version for handling very large models from CAD applications, Fahrenheit Large Model.
		SGI saw Fahrenheit as an exit strategy; once complete they would be able to move to a PC-based lineup while still offering the best development tools for a now universal API.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Fahrenheit_graphics_API (956 words)

	Wikinfo \| Fahrenheit
		In the Fahrenheit scale of temperature, the freezing point of water is 32 degrees, and the boiling point is 212 degrees, conveniently placing the boiling and melting points of water 180 degrees apart.
		From this you can also determine that a degree Fahrenheit is 5/9ths of a kelvin or degree Celsius, and -40 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to -40 degrees Celsius.
		Fahrenheit established zero degrees as the temperature at which an equal mixture of ice and salt melts (some say he took that fixed mixture of ice and salt that produced the lowest temperature); and ninety-six degrees as the temperature of a healthy human body.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Fahrenheit (394 words)

	Engineering Drawing Design Data Visualization - CAD Technique - White Paper : Techniques For Making 3D Graphics : Dr ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the graphics world these have to be simulated because there is no distance between the screen and the user and lighting is not a factor too.
		Fahrenheit is the name of the collaborative project between Silicon Graphics and Microsoft for developing a suite of high-performance visualization technologies for the Windows/DirectX platform.
		Fahrenheit is aimed at supporting applications which rely on interactive graphics, imaging and video.
	www.drdwg.com /techcenter/visualization.html (4378 words)

	OpenGL Does Windows
		API’s are what make our lives easier, they make it possible for only a page of code to retrieve a file over the Internet, to easily create standard Windows dialogs and OLE enabled applications, get data from any number of SQL databases, etc. Standard API’s are good.
		There are "standard" API’s and tool languages for a variety of development tasks, SQL for database manipulation, Win32 for Windows development, Java and HTML for Internet and Web development, etc. A similar API exists for programs that have the need for functionality that includes 3D graphics.
		SGI would provide a solid and portable 3D graphics API that would protect developers investments in software, allow content to be deployed on lower end machines, and allow applications to scale upwards in performance by upgrading hardware.
	www.starstonesoftware.com /OpenGL/opengl.htm (3705 words)

	Gamasutra - Features - "Fahrenheit: No Spontaneous Combustion Here!" [04.03.98]
		Fahrenheit is made up of three pieces: a Scene Graph API, a Large Model Visualization Extension package, and a Low-Level API.
		The low-level API is, as I see it, Microsoft's way of gracefully admitting that it's tired of fighting the API wars, that Direct3D isn't the best model for 3D graphics, but then again, neither is OpenGL.
		Fahrenheit is intended to replace Direct3D, but this time, Microsoft is actually going to ask around, submit questions, and try to do it right.
	www.gamasutra.com /features/19980410/fahrenheit_01.htm (3229 words)

	Units: D
		In the U.S., the unmodified unit "degree" generally means the degree Fahrenheit; in other countries, it means the degree Celsius.
		For highways in the U.S., the angle of curvature is the angle (measured at the center of the circle) spanned by an arc 100 ft long.
		Fahrenheit set 0° at the coldest temperature he could conveniently achieve using an ice and salt mixture, and it is said he intended to set 96° as the temperature of the human body.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/dictD.html (8674 words)

	Graphics Accelerators
		Graphics accelerators are coprocessors that reside in your computer that assist in drawing graphics.
		One of the bottlenecks of the earlier graphics accelerators was that the queue would often be too small (typically 16 entries, as is the case of the original ATI Mach 64) to give the host and the graphics accelerator sufficient opportunity for parallelism.
		The common implementation of nearly all graphics accelerators when there is a requirement to read or write from the host to graphics memory is to wait until all pending graphics operations are done and the command queue has been emptied first.
	www.azillionmonkeys.com /qed/accelerator.html (10428 words)

	Silicon Graphics - Onyx2 : Developers
		APIs were built on OpenGL®;, the industry standard for graphics application development, pioneered by Silicon Graphics.
		Its APIs package OpenGL algorithms as higher-level calls, which are employed by programmers to shorten development time and reduce the lines of code to maintain.
		Our new volume-imaging API is a library of C++ classes that facilitate visualization of voxel-based data sets common in geoscience, medical, and scientific and engineering applications such as computation fluid dynamics and finite element analysis, as well as those implementing physics-based models for special effects such as smoke, fog, and liquid.
	www.man.poznan.pl /~bartekel/onyx2/developers.html (642 words)

	Microsoft and 3D Graphics
		For example, a 3D graphics API might include functions that draw objects, simulate the effects of lights, and determine which objects are visible from a given point of view.
		The design of a 3D graphics API determines what can be drawn, how quickly it can be drawn, and how easy it is for a software developer to achieve a desired effect.
		For example, the functions of a 3D graphics API might be implemented differently on the video card in a Compaq PC than they would be implemented on another video card in a Dell PC.
	www.vcnet.com /bms/features/3d.html (4283 words)

	Sun Microsystems-Reality Check
		The low-level API does not present anything new, especially since industry trends are moving towards a higher level programming model using scene-graph architecture.
		However, Fahrenheit's second level scene graph API carries too much baggage as it will be layered on top of not only OpenGL®; but also Direct3D®; and the yet-to-be-defined Fahrenheit low-level API.
		In addition, the Fahrenheit API is a 3D graphics-only solution, not geared for the media-rich applications of tomorrow.
	www.sun.com /realitycheck/headsup980512.html (952 words)

	MS quietly dumps Windows OpenGL support \| The Register
		Fahrenheit, the joint Microsoft-SGI project "to define the future of graphics" has crashed in ruins, with Microsoft to all intents and purposes pulling its support for OpenGL and throwing its weight behind Direct3D.
		One suggests that drivers for a particularly graphics card were pulled because of source code issues, while another says that "we are not supporting OGL until Direct3D is 100 per cent." Which of course suggests that Microsoft support for OpenGL would crack on ahead once Win2k went gold.
		This is a spectacular turnaround from the initial Fahrenheit announcement, and quite a reversal from SGI's position of a year ago, when it trumpeted Fahrenheit's importance alongside the announcement of its NT-based Visual Workstations.
	www.theregister.co.uk /1999/11/29/ms_quietly_dumps_windows_opengl (817 words)

	3D Graphics Card Contents
		As very little could be found on the web about the actual hardware implementation of 3D graphics cards, this assignment explains a few concepts associated with 3D graphics cards on the PC, describes three different cards and mainly compares their performances and features.
		3D graphics cards use various techniques which add reallity to the graphics and henceforth allows better interaction between user and the system, independant of the type of system it may be.
		The Winfast 3D L2300's is mostly due to the highly-pipelined graphics core provided by the Permedia 2 chip, in conjunction with the fast AGP bus.
	www.burieddreams.com /cad/3d_cont.htm (2411 words)

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		The OpenGL®; API (Application Programming Interface) began as an initiative by SGI to create a single, vendor-independent API for the development of 2D and 3D graphics applications.
		SGI saw the lack of a standard graphics API as an inhibitor to the growth of the 3D marketplace and decided to lead an industry group in creating such a standard.
		The Iris Indigo is a graphical UNIX workstation introduced in 1991 by SGI, and was one of the most p owerful 3D machines on the market at the time.
	www.lycos.com /info/sgi--silicon-graphics.html (418 words)

	Silicon Graphics and Microsoft Form Strategic Alliance To Define the Future of Graphics: Collaboration Enhances ...
		Fahrenheit paves the way for a truly scalable computer graphics software framework that will satisfy ISVs all the way from low-level APIs to full-blown scene graphics with large model visualization and heavy-duty 'visualization simplification' functions.
		The Fahrenheit Scene Graph API provides high-level data structures and algorithms that increase overall graphics performance and assist the development of sophisticated graphics-rich applications.
		Microsoft and Silicon Graphics are committed to an open design preview process during which input on the API designs will be solicited from all interested parties.
	www.microsoft.com /presspass/press/1997/dec97/Fahrpr.mspx (1321 words)

	Wired News: Microsoft and SGI Plan 3-D for the Masses
		But until all the technology of the Fahrenheit project is fully deployed, Microsoft's Maritz acknowledged that developers will continue to have to choose between the two according to their needs.
		That low-level API is slated to become the project's primary graphics API for consumer and professional applications on Windows, evolving, the companies say, from a combination of the Direct3D, DirectDraw, and OpenGL technologies.
		But the low-level API will also be last in line for the Fahrenheit technology's scheduled roll-out, with current plans calling for introduction of the Windows version in the first half of 2000.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,9247,00.html (774 words)

	14-Jan-2007 Kyes Directory - Financial Services, Math Science and ODP Search 1168821756 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Geo informational system - Dynamic models of real objects that may be used for the development of any functional and visual models of the real world.
		Graphics Gems Repository - Free code repository for the 5 volume set of books on various computer graphics programming techniques.
		Graphics Notes - Topic papers on computer graphics maintained by the faculty and students of the Computer Graphics Group, Computer Science Department, at UC Davis.
	www.kyes-world.com /index.cgi?&passurl=/Computers/Programming/Graphics (660 words)

	SGI to cooperate with Microsoft on graphics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Silicon Graphics, one of the last companies that supplied only Unix based systems had formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft to develop graphics technology that can be used on Windows platforms an SGI Irix.
		During the development of the Fahrenheit project, Microsoft and Silicon Graphics have also agreed to work together in support of the development of Windows-based graphics applications for professionals through the OpenGL APIs and the development of Windows-based graphics applications for consumers through the Direct3D API.
		Phase Two will be the delivery of the Fahrenheit low-level API in the first half of calendar year 2000 on Microsoft Windows only.
	www.hoise.com /articles/AE-PR-12-97-6.html (241 words)

	Fahrenheit graphics API
		Much of the original Fahrenheit project was adbandoned, and SGI eventually gave up on attempting to work with Microsoft.
		No new versions of XSG were ever released, and all of the pages related to either Fahrenheit or XGS on both the Microsoft and SGI web pages have since disappeared.
		As compared to Open Inventor or Iris Performer, the design of the XSG included some novel ideas.
	www.fact-index.com /f/fa/fahrenheit_graphics_api.html (903 words)

	Chris Hecker's Home Page
		Portability also has the nice side effect of forcing the API to be clean and well thought out, which benefits developers even if they never plan on porting to another platform.
		The good news is Fahrenheit low level isn't due until 2000 or so, and that's forever in the computer industry.
		The contentious issue that I'm refering to is, of course, the 3D API battles that have raged over the past year between Microsoft's Direct3D API and the OpenGL API.
	www.d6.com /users/checker/index.htm (4399 words)

	Steve Hollasch's Web Pages
		Fahrenheit started out as a collaboration between Microsoft and SGI to produce both a common low-level graphics API and an extensible 3D scene-graph API.
		Though the low-level API was canned, the scene graph shipped version 1.0 in June 2000.
		While at Kubota I worked on Doré (a 3D retained-mode graphics API), and then spent some time in the PEX group.
	steve.hollasch.net (285 words)

	Graphics Programming Computers
		Best Ways to Learn Graphics Design for the Web?Slashdot - Jan 12, 2007It helps that I also took classes in computer graphics programming in college and know a lot of the theory of what to do (ie color spaces to use,...
		AGEIA PhysX PPU graphics cardPocket-lint.co.uk, UK - Jan 11, 2007It?s all physics, and advanced in-game physics programming has been moving forward in leaps and bounds recently courtesy of new games consoles such as the...
		- Topic papers on computer graphics maintained by the faculty and students of the Computer Graphics Group, Computer Science Department, at UC Davis.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Computers/Programming/Graphics (664 words)

	Lecture 10 - Inventor, Performer and Fahrenheit
		All were designed and built by SGI, formerly Silicon Graphics, formerly the dominant player in the high speed computer graphics business.
		In a dual buffer system, until buffer swap occurs, the graphics system cannot begin rendering the new scene.
		Low level API: ultimately intended to meet the same needs as Direct3D and OpenGL, while being fine-tuned to support Fahrenheit Scene Graph.
	longwood.cs.ucf.edu /~moshell/CAP5937/lecture10.html (1335 words)

	SGI - OpenGL Technical Information
		In this way, innovations appear in the API in a timely fashion, letting application developers and hardware vendors incorporate new features into their normal product release cycles.
		OpenGL routines simplify the development of graphics software-from rendering a simple geometric point, line, or filled polygon to the creation of the most complex lighted and texture-mapped NURBS curved surface.
		A mode in which OpenGL determines whether certain user-identified graphics primitives are rendered into a region of interest in the frame buffer.
	www.sgi.com /products/software/opengl/datasheet.html (1934 words)

	Microsoft and SGI expand graphics collaboration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The different API?s that constitute Fahrenheit will gradually be released over the next two and a half years, starting in the first half of 1999.
		Fahrenheit will include OpenGL, OpenGL Scene Graph and OpenGL Optimizer from SGI; Direct3D and DirectDraw from Microsoft; and the DirectModel API which is currently being developed by Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard.
		Both companies say the APIs will be used for applications ranging from PC games to the 3D modelling of automobiles.
	www.vnunet.com /articles/print/2095760 (190 words)

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