QD3D had little impact in the computer market, both as a result of Apple's beleaguered position in the mid-1990s, as well as several fateful decisions made by the design team about future changes in the 3D hardware market that did not come true. The system also supplied a number of high-level utilities for file format conversion, and a standard viewer application for the Mac OS. On top of this was an object-oriented scene graph system, QD3D proper, which handled model loading and manipulation at a level similar to OpenGL++. A lower level system known as RAVE (Rendering Acceleration Virtual Engine) provided a hardware abstraction layer with functionality similar to Direct3D or cut-down versions of OpenGL like MiniGL.
(then Apple Computer, Inc.) starting in 1995, originally for their Macintosh computers, but delivered as a cross-platform system. QuickDraw 3D, or QD3D for short, is a 3D graphics API developed by Apple Inc. Mac OS Scrapbook version 7.5.2 (1996), showing a QuickDraw-3D-based 3D model
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