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QuickDraw 3D

QuickDraw 3D, or QD3D for short, is a 3D graphics API developed by Apple Inc. (then Apple Computer, Inc.) starting in 1995, originally for their Macintosh computers, but delivered as a cross-platform system.

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Applications

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Switch to OpenGL

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OpenGL in the 1990s

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QD3D

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OpenGL in the 1990s

QD3D

Switch to OpenGL

Applications

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QuickDraw 3D

Nodes40
Edges39
Triples11
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.05
Components1

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QuickDraw 3D

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related to External links · 10
QuickDraw 3D → AnswersQuesa, Graphics Programming, June, Macintosh Graphics, New Dimension, Pangea Software's, QD3D, Quesa, Questions, QuickDraw

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Important terminology

opengl qd3d system hardware api 3d rave apple scene mac performance objects graph level future also layer model well made

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.
SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ray-tracing or phong shading.The QD3D API was an object-like system based on pure-C codeinstance ofusing methods0.80text
QuickDraw 3Drelated to External linksGraphics Programming0.60section
QuickDraw 3Drelated to External linksQuickDraw0.60section
QuickDraw 3Drelated to External linksQD3D0.60section
QuickDraw 3Drelated to External linksNew Dimension0.60section
QuickDraw 3Drelated to External linksMacintosh Graphics0.60section
QuickDraw 3Drelated to External linksJune0.60section
QuickDraw 3Drelated to External linksQuestions0.60section
QuickDraw 3Drelated to External linksAnswersQuesa0.60section
QuickDraw 3Drelated to External linksQuesa0.60section
QuickDraw 3Drelated to External linksPangea Software's0.60section

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