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DirectDraw

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DirectDraw

Summary

DirectDraw is an application programming interface[1]. DirectDraw draws 63 Wikipedia views per month (application_programming_interface category, ranking #41 of 120).[2]

Key Facts

  • DirectDraw's field of work was computer graphics[3].
  • DirectDraw's instance of is recorded as application programming interface[4].
  • DirectDraw's part of the series is recorded as Q188695[5].
  • DirectDraw's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0n_zb[6].
  • DirectDraw's readable file format is recorded as DirectDraw Surface[7].
  • DirectDraw's writable file format is recorded as DirectDraw Surface[8].
  • DirectDraw's replaces is recorded as WinG[9].
  • DirectDraw's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/directdraw[10].
  • DirectDraw's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777665543[11].

Body

Publication

DirectDraw's part of the series is recorded as Q188695[5].

Subject and Themes

DirectDraw's part of the series is recorded as Q188695[5].

Why It Matters

DirectDraw draws 63 Wikipedia views per month (application_programming_interface category, ranking #41 of 120).[2] DirectDraw has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] DirectDraw is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

application programming interface computer graphics

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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