Sun Elite 3D M6 Series II

Sun Elite 3D M6 Series II ... market segments. Applications ranging from computer-aided design and analysis packages to systems that model complex virtual worlds are placing increasing demands on graphics hardware. Computationally expensive techniques like imaging, texture mapping, and complex lighting are becoming commonplace as more users strive for visual realism. At the same time, high-performance 3-D systems must be available at a reasonable cost for deployment on a large number of desktops and in highly configurable Sun Enterprise server systems to handle the most complex and compute-intensive problems.

Elite3D graphics provide impressive, high-end 3-D graphics performance in a range of cost-effective desktop, deskside, and Sun Enterprise server systems, underscoring Sun's commitment to providing the most powerful and affordable technical UNIX workstations and servers available. Its extensive feature set and high performance are derived from an innovative approach to graphics, in concert with a balanced system design. Elite3D provides very fast, high-quality transformation and display of 3-D solid and wireframe objects, and dramatically accelerates high-end functionality such as double-buffering, triangle- and quad-rendering, and lighting and shading. Elite3D series 2 introduces new geometry decompression technologies allowing complex data sets to be compressed for more efficient storage, disk and access, network transmission, memory footprint and decompressed at hardware rates. At the same time, Elite3D accelerates 2-D objects, fast 8- and 24-bit windowing and imaging performance, along with acceleration for decompression and display of compress digital video.