Pocket Gamer recently spoke with Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam developer Vicarious Visions about the DS and how it does 3D graphics. When the system is working in 2D mode, it uses what amounts to ...

3D computer graphics (in contrast to 2D computer graphics) are graphics that utilize a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer for the purposes of ...

“Castlevania 64 being a great example. ... “I think a lot of people didn’t really know the difference between 2D and 3D since it was all just flat graphics on a TV screen,” says Fearon.

Researchers have uncovered how primate brains transform flat, 2D visual inputs into rich, 3D mental representations of objects.

By combining the 2D and 3D hardware capabilities of the Nintendo DS onto a single screen, ... uses the example of ... the GPL-GPU has 3D graphics acceleration working with VGA on a PCI bus.

At its spring Graphics Technology Conference (GTC) this week, Nvidia demonstrated a new approach to inverse rendering -- the process of reconstructing 3D scenes from a handful of 2D images.

Although 3D images can be drawn in 2D programs, their views are static. They can be scaled larger or smaller, but they cannot be rotated to different angles as with 3D objects in 3D graphics programs.