Glossary:

        AGP: Advanced Graphic Port (An expansion slot that gives a video card fast access to bitmaps stored in a PC's main RAM)

        Open GL: Open Graphic Library, a technology used to draw 3D graphics.

Glide: A technology developed by 3dfx to draw graphics in Windows.

        D3D: A technology developed by Microsoft to draw graphics in Windows.

        Frame rate: The number of complete graphic rendered per second.

        Fill rate: The number of polygons rendered per second.

        S3TC: A texture compression technique developed by S3.

        FXT1: A texture compression technique developed by 3DFX.

        Anti-Alias: rounding up the corners so as to make the graphic look smooth. 

         Z buffer: Z buffer stores the depth of objects