API and 3D Graphic Pipeline

API means Application Programming Interface

An application programming interface (API) is an interface implemented by a software program that enables it to interact with other software. Source: Wikipedia

The two API's used widely to process 3D graphics are:

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  OpenGL 
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  DirectX (Direct3D)

OpenGL

OpenGL is a cross-language, cross-platform API as it is an open source API developed by Khronos Group. OpenGL is the industry's most widely used and supported 2D and 3D graphics. Sony's PlayStation 3 is one of the devices incorporating OpenGL to communicate with there graphics chips.




DirectX (Direct3D)

DirectX is a set of API's produced and owned by Microsoft exclusively, so it is often used only for Windows (95 and above), Xbox and Xbox 360 development.

 This is my own visual representation of the 3D Graphics Pipeline.

Modernism and The Prisoner

'Art and design would be the tools of universal progress. If you didn't bellieve in progress, you couldn't call yourself a modernist' ... Aalva Aalto's Paimio chair

Source: Guardian Article, Robert Hughes on the Modernist Movement

The Prisoner (1967) adopts many modernistic design elements as part of the 'modernist movement'.

These are some of the lava-lamps that can be spotted around in and during The Prisoner, they appear in several different scenes and rooms.

Intro

First Test Post!