Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

你经常会听到诸如DirectX 12、Vulkan和OpenGL的名词，这其实是三种主流的图形API（应用程序编程接口），它们为开发者提供了与显卡硬件交互的工具，用于渲染2D和3D图像——游戏以及3D渲染工具实际上都离不开这些API。再浅显一点，你可以将这三种API理解为人（开发 ...

The broad industry support Apple is building around OpenCL will help increase the critical mass behind OpenGL, the 2D and 3D graphics language Apple uses extensively in Mac OS X. Since the mid 90s, ...

When a new OpenGL specification has been released, its merely the standardization of OpenGL extensions that have been around for a long time. Implicitly stating OpenGL is always behind Direct3D in ...

In a scary twist that reinforces Valve's distaste of Windows 8, it turns out that the Source engine -- the 3D engine that powers Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 -- runs faster on Ubuntu 12.04 and ...