Question from a graphics virgin

Hi,
this is a very basic question, but could somebody possibly answer it anyway?
When you use Java 3D, does the language automatically use the full hardware capability of your graphics card? How does it do this? Does it somehow interrogate your card?
Because, correct me if I'm wrong, graphics cards when involved in gaming and various image processing activities actually do quite a lot of number crunching themselves, don't they? i.e. trigonometry, rendering, etc...
anyway, can anybody point me to a source of info about how this all works in java?
Thanks,
Mike

I'm a basic java3d programmer so I'm quite well equipped to answer this one :)
Yes it does- Java3D breaks the old "platform independance" thing down slightly and uses some native code to interface with your hardware- when you download the windows version, for example, there is a J3d.dll that is installed with it and that then talks either to OpenGL or to Direct3D, depending on what version you are looking at.
Java3D is not designed to perform as one of those two, but to provide a user-friendly api to go over either of them.
For more info about java3d generally http://www.j3d.org is a good source.

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