About Stealth II S220 

Product Overview 

3D Features 

Table of Contents




Stealth II S220 Overview 

Key Features:

  • Best-of-class 3D performance
  • Realistic 3D graphics for 3D action gaming in real timeOptimized Windows accelerator for home productivity, desktop publishing, and business applications
  • Best digital vieo playback quality - Diamond DVD and TV extension possible (external)
  • Renditon's Verité™ 2100: 64-Bit RISC graphics and video accelerator

Realistic 3D Graphic in Real Time

  • Complete hardware 3D feature set for fast action game play and realistic animation
  • Enhances the most popular Windows games
  • Support for Direct 3D, Redline™, and Speedy3D™ APIs

Outrageous 2D Windows Acceleration

  • Optimized for popular operating systems -- Windows 95 and Windows NT
  • InControl Tools 95 -- easy-access display and desktop utilities
  • 4MB SGRAM (100 MHz) memory
  • 170 MHz RAMDAC
  • High Color at 85 MHz refresh rate and 1280x1024 resolution
    True Color at 85 MHz and 1024x768 resolution
  • VESA 2.0 BIOS Extension (VBE)
  • DDC 2B Plug & Play

Advanced video features

  • Playback of MPEG-1 multimedia
  • Scaling with X and Y Interpolation

Upgradeable to DVD and TV tuner/video capture

  • Add Diamond's DVD option and watch DVD on the PC or TV
  • Add Diamond's DTV 2000 and watch TV

3D Features 

  • Flat and Gouraud shading
  • Texture mapping with
    • perspective correction
    • bilinear and trilinear filtering
    • MIP mapping
    • tranparency (color key and alpha)

  • Z-Buffering (16 bpz)
  • Fogging
  • Hardware triangle setup
  • Alpha blending
  • Anti-aliasing

     

Feature Examples 

This is what a textured cube will look like WITHOUT perspective correction:

 



This is what your textured cube will look like WITH perspective correction:

 



Here is an example of anti-aliasing. The first image is without anti-aliasing:



Here is the same image with anti-aliasing effects that Stealth II provides:



Here is an example of alpha-blending. The first image is without alpha-bending:



Here is the same image with alpha-blending that Stealth II provides:



Here is an example of fogging effects: