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32bit color depth
Indicates the use of 4 billion different colors. Graphics cards are supporting up to 32-bit corlor, but the human eye cannot discern between colors at that level, and you need more memory on your graphics card. Color scanners, however, often go up to 32-bit color depth. This usually results in a better quality scan, even though the color difference between two pixels may not be perceptible.

3D (3-dimensional)
This refers to the representation of objects in a space by length, width and height (three planes). On a computer display device, 3D objects are typically represented on a the 2D surface of a flat screen, but are computed as if they were actually in a three dimensional environment.

3DNow!
This is a set of 3D / multimedia floating point instructions first introduced in AMD's K6-2 processor. Newer processor from AMD support the instructions as well. 3DNow! consists of 21 new instructions.

3ivx
3ivx is a DivX variant codec. Unfortunatelly not the best choice for a codec - rather use DivX. Files with this extension can be renamed to an AVI file. See also DivX.


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