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Yes but the Nvidia NV-1 preceding the Vooodoo was much more impressive. Using NURBS you could display perfectly round objects. Also it had forward texture mapping which significantly improves cache utilization and would be beneficial even today.

It was just way harder to program for. Triangles are much simpler to understand than bezier curves after all. And after Microsoft declared that DirectX only supports triangles the NV-1 was immediately dead.

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> Also it had forward texture mapping which significantly improves cache utilization and would be beneficial even today.

Not really. Forward texture mapping simplifies texture access by making framebuffer access non-linear, reverse texture mapping has the opposite tradeoff. But that is assuming rectangular textures without UV mapping, like the Sega Saturn did; the moment you use UV mapping texture access will be non-linear no matter what. Besides that, forward texture mapping has serious difficulties the moment texture and screen sampling ratios don't match, which is pretty much always.

There is a reason why only the Saturn and the NV-1 used forward texture mapping, and the technology was abandoned afterwards.

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