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3dfx/NVidia Lawsuit Continues

Posted by Hemos on from the fight-to-the-graphic-death dept.

AFCArchvile writes "Here's the article on how 3dfx has "received favorable rulings" in the 5-patent lawsuit salvo it received from NVidia. In retaliation to the suit, 3dfx now "plans to file for summary adjudication of infringement.""

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  1. Re:it's an update to a previous story. by AFCArchvile · · Score: 3
    The original 5-patent infringement lawsuit made it to Slashdot. It seems only fair to follow up on this.

    If you're complaining about the story being so 1-sided, just kick back and relish the thought that Slashdot was designed to make 1-sided stories 2-sided. That's the entire purpose behind the Comment system.

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  2. Re:what's a 'mipmap' by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 2

    > Making Incredible Profits from MisAplied Patents, perhaps

    Hehe. Nice try. Funny, but no.

    Here's a short summary.

    Mipmap comes from latin: "multum in parvo" meaning many things in a small place.

    Since a picture is worth a thousand words, just look at the pictures here:
    Gamasutra article on mipmapping, and Mipmapping pictures and theory

    I won't discuss Isotropic or Anisotropic texture filtering, since the pictures can convey the concept clearer then my mangled descriptions. :-)

    Although I will leave with:
    - Tri-linear filtering is bilinear filtering (2x2 texels) applied between 2 mipmaps.
    - You will also (rarely) see the term 'ripmaps' which I beleive the RGB components are stored seperately (instead of interleaved.)

    Hope that helps.

  3. Um... by Millennium · · Score: 2

    Which lawsuit is 3Dfx getting the favorable rulings on?

    The Slashdot post seems to say it's the one NVidia brought against 3Dfx, covering several patents including one that seems to be for hardware 3D acceleration itself (at least, that's how the patent looked when I read it). Rather ridiculous patents, at any rate. But the MSNBC one seems to be talking about the one 3Dfx brought against NVidia, covering several equally ridiculous patents like multitexturing.

    So which one is it?
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  4. Re:Absolutely Positively Without a Doubt Biased by SuiteSisterMary · · Score: 2

    Standard boilerplate generally used by any company after they've been sued over a press release, or after their stock takes a dive.

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  5. PR release as News by Thanatos · · Score: 3

    why is a 3dfx PR release being treated as news? it's so 1-sided I'm almost nauseous.