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Computer Graphics: Week 2

Computer graphics is the study of digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content, including both 2D and 3D graphics. As an academic discipline, it focuses on the mathematical and computational foundations of image generation and processing rather than aesthetic issues. Computer graphics can be passive with no user interaction or active/interactive with two-way communication and high bandwidth user interaction that allows for dynamic motion and updating of 2D and 3D transformations. Pixels are the smallest addressable screen elements that make up raster images, with each pixel having its own coordinates. Bitmaps store digital images as spatially mapped arrays of bits. Display resolution specifies the number of pixels that can be displayed in each dimension, usually quoted as width x height.

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Computer Graphics: Week 2

Computer graphics is the study of digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content, including both 2D and 3D graphics. As an academic discipline, it focuses on the mathematical and computational foundations of image generation and processing rather than aesthetic issues. Computer graphics can be passive with no user interaction or active/interactive with two-way communication and high bandwidth user interaction that allows for dynamic motion and updating of 2D and 3D transformations. Pixels are the smallest addressable screen elements that make up raster images, with each pixel having its own coordinates. Bitmaps store digital images as spatially mapped arrays of bits. Display resolution specifies the number of pixels that can be displayed in each dimension, usually quoted as width x height.

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Computer Graphics

Week 2

The study of computer graphics is a sub-field of computer science which studies methods for digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content. Although the term often refers to threedimensional computer graphics, it also encompasses two-dimensional graphics and image processing.
As an academic discipline, computer graphics studies the manipulation of visual and geometric information using computational techniques. It focuses on the mathematical and computational foundations of image generation and processing rather than purely aesthetic issues.

Simple or
Passive Computer Graphics

Interactive or
Active computer graphics

Control

Passive

Communication

No Control

Control

Active

Interaction

One Way Communication No Interaction between User and Hardware


Communication

Dynamic nature

Interaction

2-Way Communication High bandwidth user interaction

Earlier supported Motion & Updating


No facility

Modern Applications Motion & Updation


2-D, 3-D Transformations

In digital imaging, a pixel, or pel, (picture element) is a single point in a raster image. the smallest addressable screen element in a display device; it is the smallest unit of picture that can be represented or controlled Each pixel has its own address. The address of a pixel corresponds to its coordinates. Pixels are normally arranged in a twodimensional grid, and are often represented using dots or squares.

In computer graphics, a bitmap or pixmap is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images. The term bitmap comes from the computer programming terminology, meaning just a map of bits, a spatially mapped array of bits.

The display resolution of a digital television or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It is usually quoted as width height, with the units in pixels: for example, "1024x768" means the width is 1024 pixels and the height is 768 pixels.

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