A great use of texturing engines

Anyone doing 2d graphics using OpenGL or Direct3d?

Did you realize you can render a quad using a single triangle if you leave enough transparent space in your texture?

Your mind is now blown!

>>6
a couple of weeks ago on of the lead guys at nvidia mentioned there hardware does quads i.e. it doesnt change them to 2 triangles.
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=538545