• Thumbnail for Computer graphics
    Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers. Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film...
    69 KB (8,738 words) - 01:33, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 3D computer graphics
    3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3-D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics, are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of...
    16 KB (1,861 words) - 14:36, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Computer graphics (computer science)
    study of three-dimensional computer graphics, it also encompasses two-dimensional graphics and image processing. Computer graphics studies manipulation of...
    14 KB (1,279 words) - 13:34, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rendering (computer graphics)
    engine, rendering system, graphics engine, or simply a renderer. Rendering is one of the major sub-topics of 3D computer graphics, and in practice it is...
    117 KB (11,551 words) - 18:56, 25 September 2024
  • Computers & Graphics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers computer graphics and related subjects such as data visualization, human-computer...
    7 KB (503 words) - 12:23, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sprite (computer graphics)
    (1983), Genesis/Mega Drive (1988); and home computers such as the TI-99/4 (1979), Atari 8-bit computers (1979), Commodore 64 (1982), MSX (1983), Amiga...
    33 KB (2,389 words) - 14:46, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Computer-generated imagery
    Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is a specific-technology or application of computer graphics for creating or improving images in art, printed media,...
    29 KB (3,716 words) - 04:00, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2D computer graphics
    2D computer graphics is the computer-based generation of digital images—mostly from two-dimensional models (such as 2D geometric models, text, and digital...
    28 KB (3,986 words) - 02:03, 7 March 2024
  • influenced alternative forms of interaction with computers. In the mid-1960s, large computer graphics research projects were begun at MIT, General Motors...
    21 KB (2,745 words) - 00:42, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Graphics processing unit
    accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and...
    84 KB (8,471 words) - 08:56, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tessellation (computer graphics)
    In computer graphics, tessellation is the dividing of datasets of polygons (sometimes called vertex sets) presenting objects in a scene into suitable...
    6 KB (620 words) - 22:54, 27 July 2024
  • a glossary of terms relating to computer graphics. For more general computer hardware terms, see glossary of computer hardware terms. Contents 0–9 A B...
    61 KB (6,458 words) - 10:18, 26 June 2024
  • Polygons are used in computer graphics to compose images that are three-dimensional in appearance. Polygons are built up of vertices, and are typically...
    3 KB (272 words) - 05:03, 6 February 2024
  • Computer Graphics was a publication of ACM SIGGRAPH. It served as its newsletter, and has published the yearly SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings up to 2003...
    853 bytes (47 words) - 17:02, 9 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Isometric video game graphics
    to the horizontal. While modern computers can eliminate this problem using anti-aliasing, earlier computer graphics did not support enough colors or...
    30 KB (3,308 words) - 07:21, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Workstation
    formerly offered higher performance than mainstream personal computers, especially in CPU, graphics, memory, and multitasking. Workstations are optimized for...
    30 KB (3,185 words) - 22:34, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mesa (computer graphics)
    called Mesa3D and The Mesa 3D Graphics Library, is an open source implementation of OpenGL, Vulkan, and other graphics API specifications. Mesa translates...
    92 KB (9,298 words) - 08:15, 6 September 2024
  • Computer graphics lighting is the collection of techniques used to simulate light in computer graphics scenes. While lighting techniques offer flexibility...
    25 KB (2,813 words) - 13:30, 19 August 2024
  • Look up computer graphics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Computer graphics are graphics created by computers and, more generally, the representation...
    1 KB (197 words) - 15:25, 29 October 2019
  • Thumbnail for Silicon Graphics
    Silicon Graphics, Inc. (stylized as SiliconGraphics before 1999, later rebranded SGI, historically known as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS)...
    71 KB (7,269 words) - 23:31, 12 September 2024
  • Ashby Computers and Graphics Limited, trading as Ultimate Play the Game, was a British video game developer and publisher, founded in 1982, by ex-arcade...
    32 KB (3,342 words) - 00:32, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Graphics tablet
    or digital art board) is a computer input device that enables a user to hand draw or paint images, animations and graphics, with a special pen-like stylus...
    23 KB (2,880 words) - 09:00, 26 August 2024
  • television production. Computers began to be used as early as the late 1960s as super computers were capable of rendering crude graphics. John Whitney and...
    14 KB (1,532 words) - 06:38, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atari 8-bit computers
    The Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, are a series of home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979 with...
    69 KB (8,309 words) - 09:29, 8 September 2024
  • Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is a free and open international standard file format for 2D vector graphics, raster graphics, and text, and is defined...
    7 KB (514 words) - 11:50, 2 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Vector graphics
    Vector graphics are a form of computer graphics in which visual images are created directly from geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as...
    28 KB (3,096 words) - 12:24, 24 September 2024
  • the third and fourth generations and home computers of the 80s. The EGA video adapter on early IBM PC computers uses planar arrangement in color graphical...
    8 KB (807 words) - 12:14, 16 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Visualization (graphics)
    visualization application is the field of computer graphics. The invention of computer graphics (and 3D computer graphics) may be the most important development...
    26 KB (3,070 words) - 18:33, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Real-time computer graphics
    Real-time computer graphics or real-time rendering is the sub-field of computer graphics focused on producing and analyzing images in real time. The term...
    14 KB (1,604 words) - 01:45, 22 September 2024
  • computer graphics can be traced back to an article by James H. Clark in the October 1976 issue of Communications of the ACM. At the time, computers were...
    16 KB (1,894 words) - 21:09, 21 July 2024