Video system: Graphics circuitry engages in an endless quest to render pictures faster while demanding less from the main processor.
The project ground to a halt after about 10 years, largely because I had come to rely on a system graphics library (SIMPLE) targeting solely the Tektronix devices and the CDC computers my institute then operated.
The reviewers lauded the game's user-friendly menu system, graphics, originality, and overall enjoyability; one of the reviewers called it the best adventure title at the time.
Because of variations in browser software, operating systems, graphics hardware and installed fonts, it turns out that the image drawn varies slightly from one computer to another, and can thus be used to identify particular users.
Tracking systems, graphics servers, custom-built rendering software, and devices such as head-mounted displays, required high levels of expertise and large investments.
Using a system of graphic conventions, they translate the three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional one.
In recent years, however, a system of graphic symbols based on dance notation has allowed the world's signed languages to be captured on paper.
On the Xbox 360, the game's main system, the graphics dazzle and the cars evoke a realistic sense of speed.
