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Computer Graphics Software.

This research examines computer graphics software. The research will set forth a working definition of the term and then discuss why it is important as well as the types of graphics software available.

Computer graphics software functions as an electronic interface that digitizes and reproduces analog pictorial images, or that converts digital data into such images. There are two main categories of graphical images created by graphics software: raster graphics and vector (object-oriented) graphics. The former "stores and displays images as a bit map, a series of closely spaced dots (or pixels) arranged in rows and columns"; the latter stores images as mathematical formulas, displaying them via calculation end-point-coordinates between which lines are drawn (Computer, 2000, p. 9128). Graphics may be stored (displayed) in computer-aided design (CAD) software and/or optical scanners, and they may be retrieved from storage for display on computer screens or printed out as hard copy

Computer graphics may be simple or complex. Simple graphics may be tables or charts. Complex graphics include photographs and animated figures. Why graphics software is important may be inferred from a statement that Carlson (1999, p. 182) attributes to an article appearing in the trade paper Printers Ink in 1927: "One picture is worth ten thousand words." A core value of computer-generated graphics is that they empower communication much in the manner of other visual aids.

Computer-graphics software, indeed, has been decisive for software development more generally. From its earliest origins, the graphical user interface (GUI) derived value from a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) screen presentation and the implications for increased productivity offered by images rather than text-dense, hierarchical, menu-heavy onscreen output. Aesthetically, the use of mouse pointer to manipulate onscreen icons enabled "the object-action paradigm," or the user'...

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