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To: Ben Wu who wrote (10581)	2/10/1999 4:09:00 PM
From: Ben Wu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 16960

New 3Dfx Patent - 1:50pm MST - Billy "Wicked" Wilson According to my man Dan Glover (he ruled in Lethal Weapon 4) 3Dfx was just issued a new patent this week....more single-pass multi-texture stuff. Check a small snippet: " The texture color/alpha input signal (C.sub.in, A.sub.in), the texture color/alpha output signal (C.sub.out, A.sub.out), and the local texture color/alpha signal (C.sub.local, A.sub.local) are all in the 32 bit RGBA format" patent # 5870102 164.195.100.11 ----- looks like it describes the internal 32-bit rendering system of the V3. From a cursory glance, it seems that the patent pretty much covers the single pass multitexturing process. More lawsuits anyone?