Graphics, the Glossary
Graphics are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain.[1]
Table of Contents
172 relations: Academic journal, Adobe Photoshop, Aldus Manutius, Allegory, Ancient Egypt, Animation, Anno Domini, Anthropologist, April Greiman, Art, Atari, Inc., Augsburg, Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya, Barack Obama "Hope" poster, Battlezone (1980 video game), Bauhaus, Bell Labs, Boeing, Business, Camera lens, Canvas, Cave painting, Character (computing), Chart, China, Cinema 4D, Color, Computer file, Computer graphics, Computer graphics (computer science), Concept, Cylinder seal, DAC-1, Daniel Hopfer, Design, Desktop publishing, Diagram, Digital photography, Douglas Aircraft Company, Douglas T. Ross, Drawing, Economics, Educational animation, Encyclopedia, Engineering, Engineering drawing, Engraving, Etching, Field of view, ... Expand index (122 more) »
Academic journal
An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published.
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Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS.
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Aldus Manutius
Aldus Pius Manutius (Aldo Pio Manuzio; 6 February 1515) was an Italian printer and humanist who founded the Aldine Press.
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Allegory
As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
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Animation
Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.
Anno Domini
The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Anthropologist
An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology.
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April Greiman
April Greiman (born March 22, 1948) is an American designer widely recognized as one of the first designers to embrace computer technology as a design tool.
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Art
Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
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Atari, Inc.
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.
Augsburg
Augsburg (label) is a city in the Bavarian part of Swabia, Germany, around west of the Bavarian capital Munich.
Autodesk 3ds Max
Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio and 3D Studio Max, is a professional 3D computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images.
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Autodesk Maya
Autodesk Maya, commonly shortened to just Maya, is a 3D computer graphics application that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, originally developed by Alias and currently owned and developed by Autodesk.
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Barack Obama "Hope" poster
The Barack Obama "Hope" poster is an image of US president Barack Obama designed by American artist Shepard Fairey.
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Battlezone (1980 video game)
Battlezone is a first-person shooter tank combat game released for arcades in November 1980 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a tank which is attacked by other tanks and missiles.
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Bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known as the, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts. Graphics and Bauhaus are graphic design.
Bell Labs
Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others.
Boeing
The Boeing Company (or simply Boeing) is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide.
Business
Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services).
Camera lens
A camera lens (also known as photographic lens or photographic objective) is an optical lens or assembly of lenses used in conjunction with a camera body and mechanism to make images of objects either on photographic film or on other media capable of storing an image chemically or electronically.
Canvas
Canvas is an extremely durable plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, shelters, as a support for oil painting and for other items for which sturdiness is required, as well as in such fashion objects as handbags, electronic device cases, and shoes.
Cave painting
In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves.
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Character (computing)
In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.
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Chart
A chart (sometimes known as a graph) is a graphical representation for data visualization, in which "the data is represented by symbols, such as bars in a bar chart, lines in a line chart, or slices in a pie chart".
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Cinema 4D
Cinema 4D is a 3D software suite developed by the German company Maxon.
Color
Color (American English) or colour (British and Commonwealth English) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum. Graphics and color are graphic design.
Computer file
In computing, a computer file is a resource for recording data on a computer storage device, primarily identified by its filename.
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Computer graphics
Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers.
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Computer graphics (computer science)
Computer graphics is a sub-field of computer science which studies methods for digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content. Graphics and computer graphics (computer science) are computer graphics.
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Concept
A concept is defined as an abstract idea.
Cylinder seal
A cylinder seal is a small round cylinder, typically about one inch (2 to 3 cm) in length, engraved with written characters or figurative scenes or both, used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a two-dimensional surface, generally wet clay.
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DAC-1
DAC-1, for Design Augmented by Computer, was one of the earliest graphical computer aided design systems.
Daniel Hopfer
Daniel Hopfer (– 1536) was a German artist who is widely believed to have been the first to use etching in printmaking, at the end of the 15th century.
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Design
A design is the concept of or proposal for an object, process, or system.
Desktop publishing
Desktop publishing (DTP) is the creation of documents using dedicated software on a personal ("desktop") computer.
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Diagram
A diagram is a symbolic representation of information using visualization techniques.
Digital photography
Digital photography uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors interfaced to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to produce images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film.
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Douglas Aircraft Company
The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace and defense company based in Southern California.
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Douglas T. Ross
Douglas Taylor "Doug" Ross (21 December 1929 – 31 January 2007) was an American computer scientist pioneer, and chairman of SofTech, Inc.
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Drawing
Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface.
Economics
Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Educational animation
Educational animations are animations produced for the specific purpose of fostering learning.
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Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopaedia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, in a particular field or discipline.
Engineering
Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to solve technical problems, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve systems.
Engineering drawing
An engineering drawing is a type of technical drawing that is used to convey information about an object.
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Engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin.
Etching
Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal.
Field of view
The field of view (FOV) is the angular extent of the observable world that is seen at any given moment.
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FS1 Flight Simulator
FS1 Flight Simulator is a 1979 video game published by Sublogic for the Apple II.
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General Motors
General Motors Company (GM) is an American multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
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Geography
Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία; combining 'Earth' and 'write') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.
Geometry
Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures.
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
GIF
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.
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GIMP
GNU Image Manipulation Program, commonly known by its acronym GIMP, is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks.
Graph of a function
In mathematics, the graph of a function f is the set of ordered pairs (x, y), where f(x).
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Graphic design
Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives.
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Graphicacy
Graphicacy is defined as the ability to understand and present information in the form of sketches, photographs, diagrams, maps, plans, charts, graphs and other non-textual formats.
Graphical user interface
A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.
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Harry Potter (film series)
Harry Potter is a film series based on the eponymous novels by British author J. K. Rowling.
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Home computer
Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s.
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Hue
In color theory, hue is one of the main properties (called color appearance parameters) of a color, defined technically in the CIECAM02 model as "the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet," within certain theories of color vision.
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Human body
The human body is the entire structure of a human being.
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.
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IBM PC–compatible
IBM PC–compatible computers are technically similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT, all from computer giant IBM, that are able to use the same software and expansion cards.
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Idea
In common usage and in philosophy, ideas are the results of thought.
Illustration
An illustration is a decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process, designed for integration in print and digitally published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games and films. Graphics and illustration are graphic design.
Image
An image is a visual representation. Graphics and image are computer graphics and graphic design.
Intaglio (printmaking)
Intaglio is the family of printing and printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface and the incised line or sunken area holds the ink.
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Interactive computing
In computer science, interactive computing refers to software which accepts input from the user as it runs.
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Italic type
In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting.
Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics.
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JPEG
JPEG (short for Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography.
Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
Line art
Line art or line drawing is any image that consists of distinct straight lines or curved lines placed against a background (usually plain). Graphics and line art are graphic design.
Line chart
A line chart or line graph, also known as curve chart, is a type of chart that displays information as a series of data points called 'markers' connected by straight line segments.
Lockheed Corporation
The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer.
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Magazine
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content.
Map
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes.
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Martin Waldseemüller
Martin Waldseemüller (– 16 March 1520) was a German cartographer and humanist scholar.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.
McDonnell Aircraft Corporation
The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer based in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Meaning (semiotics)
In semiotics, the study of sign processes (semiosis), the meaning of a sign is its place in a sign relation, in other words, the set of roles that the sign occupies within a given sign relation.
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Microsoft Paint
Microsoft Paint (commonly known as MS Paint or Paint for short) is a simple raster graphics editor that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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Modern era
The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history.
Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as writing, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to traditional mass media, such as printed material or audio recordings, which feature little to no interaction between users.
Murals in Northern Ireland
Murals in Northern Ireland have become symbols of Northern Ireland, depicting the region's past and present political and religious divisions.
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NCSA Mosaic
NCSA Mosaic was among the first widely available web browsers, instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics.
Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newsweek
Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.
NeXT
NeXT, Inc. (later NeXT Computer, Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc.) was an American technology company headquartered in Redwood City, California that specialized in computer workstations for higher education and business markets, and later developed web software.
Number
A number is a mathematical object used to count, measure, and label.
Painting
Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support").
PaintShop Pro
PaintShop Pro (PSP) is a raster and vector graphics editor for Microsoft Windows.
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Paper
Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses, or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through a fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed on the surface, followed by pressing and drying.
Papyrus
Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface.
Paul Rand
Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum; August 15, 1914 – November 26, 1996) was an American art director and graphic designer.
Pedagogy
Pedagogy, most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners.
Photograph
A photograph (also known as a photo, image, or picture) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip.
Photographic filter
In photography and cinematography, a filter is a camera accessory consisting of an optical filter that can be inserted into the optical path.
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Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios, known simply as Pixar, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films.
PLATO (computer system)
PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations), also known as Project Plato and Project PLATO, was the first generalized computer-assisted instruction system.
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Plug-in (computing)
In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, or addon) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program.
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PNG
Portable Network Graphics (PNG, officially pronounced, colloquially pronounced) is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression.
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Political cartoon
A political cartoon, also known as an editorial cartoon, is a cartoon graphic with caricatures of public figures, expressing the artist's opinion.
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Popular culture
Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.
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Poster
A poster is a large sheet that is placed either on a public space to promote something or on a wall as decoration. Graphics and poster are graphic design.
Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. Graphics and Printmaking are graphic design.
Pyramid
A pyramid is a structure whose visible surfaces are triangular in broad outline and converge toward the top, making the appearance roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense.
Pythagorean theorem
In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras' theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry between the three sides of a right triangle.
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Quality (philosophy)
A quality is an attribute or a property characteristic of an object in philosophy.
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Raster graphics
smiley face in the top left corner is a raster image. When enlarged, individual pixels appear as squares. Enlarging further, each pixel can be analyzed, with their colors constructed through combination of the values for red, green and blue. In computer graphics and digital photography, a raster graphic represents a two-dimensional picture as a rectangular matrix or grid of pixels, viewable via a computer display, paper, or other display medium. Graphics and raster graphics are computer graphics.
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Ray tracing (graphics)
In 3D computer graphics, ray tracing is a technique for modeling light transport for use in a wide variety of rendering algorithms for generating digital images. Graphics and ray tracing (graphics) are computer graphics.
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Representation (arts)
Representation is the use of signs that stand in for and take the place of something else.
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Science
Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.
Screensaver
A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been idle for a designated time.
Semiotics
Semiotics is the systematic study of sign processes and the communication of meaning.
Shading
Shading refers to the depiction of depth perception in 3D models (within the field of 3D computer graphics) or illustrations (in visual art) by varying the level of darkness. Graphics and Shading are computer graphics.
Shepard Fairey
Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is an American contemporary artist, activist and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene.
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Short film
A short film is a film with a low running time.
Silicon Graphics
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (stylized as SiliconGraphics before 1999, later rebranded SGI, historically known as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) was an American high-performance computing manufacturer, producing computer hardware and software.
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Sketchpad
Sketchpad (a.k.a. Robot Draftsman) is a computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988, and the Kyoto Prize in 2012. Graphics and Sketchpad are computer graphics.
Software
Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.
Space
Space is a three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions.
Spasim
Spasim is a 32-player 3D networked space flight simulation game and first-person space shooter developed by Jim Bowery for the PLATO computer network and released in March 1974.
Spider-Man (2002 film)
Spider-Man is a 2002 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man.
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Steven Anson Coons
Steven Anson Coons (March 7, 1912 – August 1979) was an early pioneer in the field of computer graphical methods.
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Subject and object (philosophy)
The distinction between subject and object is a basic idea of philosophy.
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SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format for defining two-dimensional graphics, having support for interactivity and animation.
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SWF
SWF is a defunct Adobe Flash file format that was used for multimedia, vector graphics and ActionScript.
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Symbol
A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship.
Synonym
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language.
Table (information)
A table is an arrangement of information or data, typically in rows and columns, or possibly in a more complex structure.
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Tablets of Stone
According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tablets of the Law (also Tablets of Stone, Stone Tablets, or Tablets of Testimony; Biblical Hebrew: לוּחֹת הַבְּרִית lūḥōt habbǝrīt "tablets of the covenant", לֻחֹת הָאֶבֶן luḥōt hāʾeḇen or לֻחֹת אֶבֶן luḥōt ʾeḇen or לֻחֹת אֲבָנִים luḥōt ʾăbānīm "stone tablets", and לֻחֹת הָעֵדֻת luḥōt hāʿēdut "tablets of testimony"; Arabic: أَلْوَاحُ مُوسَى āl-wāḥ Mūsā "the tablets of Moses") were the two stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments when Moses ascended Mount Sinai as written in the Book of Exodus.
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Textbook
A textbook is a book containing a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study with the intention of explaining it.
The Lord of the Rings (film series)
The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy of epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by British author J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Three-dimensional space
In geometry, a three-dimensional space (3D space, 3-space or, rarely, tri-dimensional space) is a mathematical space in which three values (coordinates) are required to determine the position of a point.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Toy Story
Toy Story is a 1995 American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.
TX-0
The TX-0, for Transistorized Experimental computer zero, but affectionately referred to as tixo (pronounced "tix oh"), was an early fully transistorized computer and contained a then-huge 64K of 18-bit words of magnetic-core memory.
TX-2
The MIT Lincoln Laboratory TX-2 computer was the successor to the Lincoln TX-0 and was known for its role in advancing both artificial intelligence and human–computer interaction.
Typeface
A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display.
Typography
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. Graphics and Typography are graphic design.
Typology (archaeology)
In archaeology, a typology is the result of the classification of things according to their physical characteristics.
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Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss is a first-person role-playing video game developed by Blue Sky Productions (later Looking Glass Studios) and published by Origin Systems.
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United Parcel Service
United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907.
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Upper Paleolithic
The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.
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User interface
In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur.
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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 points, lines, curves and polygons. Graphics and Vector graphics are computer graphics and graphic design.
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Vector Markup Language
Vector Markup Language (VML) is an obsolete XML-based file format for two-dimensional vector graphics.
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Visual culture
Visual culture is the aspect of culture expressed in visual images.
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Visual perception
Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum reflected by objects in the environment.
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Visual system
The visual system is the physiological basis of visual perception (the ability to detect and process light).
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Visualization (graphics)
Visualization (or visualisation (see spelling differences)), also known as Graphics Visualization, is any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message. Graphics and Visualization (graphics) are computer graphics and graphic design.
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Vkhutemas
Vkhutemas (p, acronym for Высшие художественно-технические мастерские Vysshiye Khudozhestvenno-Tekhnicheskiye Masterskiye "Higher Art and Technical Studios") was the Russian state art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow, replacing the Moscow Svomas.
War of the Worlds (2005 film)
War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction action-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp, loosely based on H. G. Wells' 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds.
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War photography
War photography involves photographing armed conflict and its effects on people and places.
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Web browser
A web browser is an application for accessing websites.
Whirlwind I
Whirlwind I was a Cold War-era vacuum-tube computer developed by the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory for the U.S. Navy.
William Caslon
William Caslon I (1692/93 – 23 January 1766), also known as William Caslon the Elder,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was an English typefounder.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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Wood
Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
Woodblock printing
Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.
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Woodcut
Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking.
X3D
X3D (Extensible 3D) is a set of royalty-free ISO/IEC standards for declaratively representing 3D computer graphics.
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2D geometric model
A 2D geometric model is a geometric model of an object as a two-dimensional figure, usually on the Euclidean or Cartesian plane.
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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 geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering digital images, usually 2D images but sometimes 3D images. Graphics and 3D computer graphics are computer graphics.
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3D modeling
In 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling is the process of developing a mathematical coordinate-based representation of a surface of an object (inanimate or living) in three dimensions via specialized software by manipulating edges, vertices, and polygons in a simulated 3D space.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics
Also known as Grafics, Grafik, Graphic, Graphic products, Graphic technology, Graphical, History of graphics.
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