Game developers have battled each other for decades about whether voxels or polygons are best for game graphics. A voxel is volume element, a way of illustrating a 3D image without using traditional ...

Does anyone know the terms for 3d polygons with a specific number of sides (like a cube for a 6-sided figure)? Specifically a 12-sided one, but any that you know would be helpful.

Remember that time 3D gaming became a thing and the internet blew up in a furious mushroom cloud of misspelled forum threads and blog posts about how it was going to ruin the industry and gamers would ...

Facebook doesn’t want to look like just another website, so it’s testing colorful new versions of Facebook.com on a very small percentage of logged out visitors. One features a 3D polygon art map of ...

Tekken series overlord Katsuhiro Harada has poured cold water over a possible collection of classic Tekken games, suggesting they wouldn’t have much appeal due to the fact early 3D polygon games haven ...

Caroline Albanese has written for UGO, Kabooooom, and is currently the Managing Editor of The Ticker, CUNY's premier Undergraduate Newspaper. In her column, Gamer's Grasp, she tackles the problems ...

In this third part of our deeper look at 3D game rendering, we'll be focusing what can happen to the 3D world after the vertex processing has done and the scene has been rasterized. Texturing is one ...

It's difficult to extol the virtues of Super Mario 3D World without sounding like an apologist, because most of those virtues are conditional. Those who played the game by themselves, or those who ...

From the shape of a flower to the numbers on a clock, everywhere you look you will be able to find some sort of pattern. Identifying 2D shapes Find out about regular 2D shapes and irregular polygons.