Qbasic stands for Quick Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.It was originaly made in 1975 by Biil Gates and Paul Allen. QBASIC is one of many BASIC programming launguages.

An RTOS popular for embedded machines. Has a reputation for being rock solid (rumours place it at the centre of some nuclear power plants' computer system).

See Also:RTOS

Common term used in modeling when refering to a model made up of four point polygonal faces.

Recursively using 2 cutting planes to subdivide space.

Used for image/model storage and visibility determination (i.e. terrain rendering.)

See also: Spatial-partioning, Binary Space-Partitioning Trees (BSP), and Octrees

One of the leading series in the 3D First Person Shooter Genre. Developed by iD Software and the successor to the Doom series. Quake 3 is scheduled for release.

A repercussion of an insufficient bit depth used to represent the amplitude of a signal. Quantization may create frequencies that do not exist in the original signal. This is, however, occasionally used as a desirable effect.

The act of conforming digital music information (MIDI) to a set tempo and time signature.

An extention to normal complex numbers, invented by Sir William Rowan Hamilton. Usually used in 3D graphics to represent rotations and the orientations of coordinate axes. It is possible to use them to create smooth interpolations between two rotations.

QuickBASIC stands for Quick Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.It was originaly made in 1975 by Biil Gates and Paul Allen. QBASIC is one of many BASIC programming launguages.

The most popurar sorting algorithm to sort an array of items.

an algorithm used to sort elements in an array. Developed by C.A.R. Hoare, it has an average efficency of 1.4n log2(n) as compared to Insertion, Selection, and Bubble with averages of n(n-1)/4, n(n-1)/2, and <2>