3D - API & Graphics Pipeline

Software Handlers 

API stands for 'Application Programming Interface'

Definition of API

Two examples of this is the 'Direct 3D' brand which is owned by Microsoft.  It is used in the production of Xbox games and some PC games.

The other is called 'Open Graphics Library / OpenGL' which is an opensource cross platform for writing the apps for producing the 2D or 3D graphics. It is currently in version 4.1 which is developed by the 'Khronos Group'.  The Playstation 3 is using 'OpenGL ES 2.0'

This diagram shows the process of the 3D Graphics Pipeline

Modernism - The Prisoner

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"The early 20th-cent. movement or trend in which certain artists and writers, esp. those (as Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Picasso) of the period between WWI and WWII, broke with established traditions and sought new modes of expression."
Definition

 The Prisoner showed different Props in the environment of the tv series that was apart and related to the 'Modernism' Movement.



This was a fancy door bell in the series

These are phones used in the series.

3D Research Post

3D is much more common in the media industry compared to earlier years like the 1920's.

Film Industry
Uses Special Effects / Animated Features / Stereoscopic 3d

TV Industry
3D animated - Penguins of Madagascar, Live Action - Heroes, Lost 
and it is also used in advertisements

Games Industry
Uses 3D to create game characters, environments and props
[Also used in "Real Games Simulators"]

Other
Architecture - Creating 3D future concepts for clients

Interior Design
Used to give a 3D view of the building design

Film and Television have produced Computer Generated Imagery scenes since the 1970's
Check out the page - CGI Timeline

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