Elite3D is Sun's family of high performance graphics systems for real-time interactive 3D visualization, rendering, and animation. Elite3D has established new price-performance standards to bring high-end graphics onto large numbers of desktops of professionals engaged in: 3D design and modeling, dynamic simulation, scientific visualization, animation, rendering, and video effects.??The new Elite3D series 2 introduces new geometry decompression technology while keeping Elite3D series 1 features and functions. Elite3D integrates Sun innovations like 3D-RAM, Visual Instruction Set, and the UPA cross-bar memory system. State of the art ASICs increase the capabilities and responsiveness of Sun systems and Solaris applications. Elite3D provides dedicated hardware resources, like three or six floating point units, texture cache for on board lighting calculations, and z-buffers to support realistic real-time visualization. Elite3D is 100% binary compatible with Solaris graphics applicatio...