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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (27774)	1/8/1998 3:55:00 PM
From: Brian Hutcheson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572763

Kevin + John , re. AMD not intending to eliminate the 3D video card Read december Byte mag article on page 92 , it explains that while it improves video as stand alone it also improves performance of high end 3d cards , Brian

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (27774)	1/8/1998 6:14:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572763

Kevin, re: 3d video. One of the big things the AM3D instruction set can do quickly is coordinate transformation of triangles, which, basically is computing where all the 3D things are, projected onto a 2D screen. But then it will be the job of the video card to render each triangle considering light sources, texture, layers, etc. We'll have to wait for some actual benchmarks to see how it works out I hope very well. BTW, I first saw "AM3D" in a post from Rod MacPherson. Whether its an official AMD trademark, I don't know. Petz