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Direct3D constitutes one of the emerging APIs from Microsoft Corporation, for providing new software features to developers, so that new and existing features of the PC can be exploited much better than is possible presently.

As the information available on Direct3D is quite a lot, we will present the information on Direct3D using three tutorials, with each covering a different aspect of Direct3D. The three tutorials are:

1. Overview of Direct3D
2. Direct3D Retained Mode
3. Direct3D Immediate Mode

As we mentioned before, Direct3D is one of the APIs in a set, available for application development. Direct3D is available to the developer as an API, using which, applications utilizing 3D graphics can be developed much faster using a standard way. The Direct3D API is part of DirectX.

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