Larger questions about graphics are placed in The Graphics Department forum, where a group of members called the FileFront Graphics Team offers advice.

If, for example, you study Graphics and you are the average student of Graphics at your school, and the average QCS test result of graphics students at your school is above the state average, the assumption is that the graphics students at your school are above the average around the state, and your mark is boosted.

For instance, a content author may specify a < tt >. svgz </ tt > extension on a compressed Scalable Vector Graphics file, but a web server which does not recognize this extension may not send the proper content type of < tt > application / svg + xml </ tt > and its required compression header, leaving web browsers unable to correctly interpret and display the image.

The HOOPS 3D Graphics System appears to have been the first commercial scene graph library provided by a single software vendor.

Shortly thereafter, Silicon Graphics released IRIS Inventor 1. 0 ( 1992 ), which was a scene graph built on top of the IRIS GL 3D API.

Graphics word is derived from the word graph.

Intel, Silicon Graphics, Apple, and Sun all had retained mode scene graph APIs under development in 1996.

Approaches based on standard C or C ++ ( with libraries or other extensions allowing parallel programming ) are found in the Catapult C tools from Mentor Graphics, the Impulse C tools from Impulse Accelerated Technologies, and the free and open-source ROCCC 2. 0 tools from Jacquard Computing Inc. Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc .' s CoreFire Design Suite and National Instruments LabVIEW FPGA provide a graphical dataflow approach to high-level design entry and languages such as SystemVerilog, SystemVHDL, and Handel-C seek to accomplish the same goal, but are aimed at making existing hardware engineers more productive versus making FPGAs more accessible to existing software engineers.

; Graphics Device Interface: Provides functionality for outputting graphical content to monitors, printers and other output devices.

The earliest Silicon Graphics graphical workstations were mainly terminals, but they were soon followed by stand-alone graphical Unix workstations with very fast graphics rendering hardware.

The Graphics Device Interface ( GDI ) is a Microsoft Windows application programming interface and core operating system component responsible for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices such as monitors and printers.

Later a more intelligent version of this terminal, the CT-82, was introduced, and a graphical terminal the GT-6144 Graphics Terminal.

* Graphics Layout Engine, a program that produces multiple forms of graphical outputs from a script file.

IRIS GL ( Integrated Raster Imaging System Graphics Library ) was a proprietary graphics API created by Silicon Graphics ( SGI ) for producing 2D and 3D computer graphics on their IRIX-based IRIS graphical workstations.

* Graphics: There are many graphical differences between the PC and Amiga versions.

Intran ( around 1982 ) produced a pioneering graphical program suite called MetaForm, which consisted of the separate Graphics Builder, Font Builder, Form Builder, and File Manager programs.

In a strict sense, this character set was not conceived as a code page — it was simply the graphical glyph repertoire available in the 9 by 14 pixels-per-character font of the IBM Monochrome Display Adapter ( MDA ) and the 8 by 8 pixels-per-character font of the Color Graphics Adapter ( CGA ) cards used with the original IBM PC.

He did, however, create the 3-D Graphics Tool, a program that allowed rudimentary creation of wire-frame graphical images for use in games or other applications.

The Graphics Interchange Format ( GIF ; or ) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.

Although the Graphics Control Extension block declares color index 16 ( hexadecimal 10 ) to be transparent, that index is not used in the image.

JPEG Network Graphics ( JNG, ) is a JPEG-based graphics file format which is closely related to PNG: it uses the PNG file structure ( with a different signature ) as a container format to wrap JPEG encoded image data.

Portable Network Graphics ( PNG ) is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression.

The Generic Graphics Library ( GEGL ) is a programming library under development for image processing applications.

Essentially, a WMF file stores a list of function calls that have to be issued to the Windows Graphics Device Interface ( GDI ) layer to display an image on screen.

PowerVR produced a similar 3D-only add-on card with capable 3D support, although it was not comparable to Voodoo Graphics in either image quality or performance.

* Portable Network Graphics ( PNG ) ( a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression, approved by ISO as ISO / IEC 15948: 2004 )

* Graphics suite ( raster graphics editor, vector graphics editor, image viewer )

* Graphics: mtPaint ( raster graphics editor ), xzgv ( image viewer )

In the original release the difference between this standard and others like it is that the graphics structures were exclusively defined as CCITT raster image and Computer Graphics Metafile ( CGM-ISO 8632 ).

Key software and computer providers have been Adobe Photoshop and Apple Computer, along with Silicon Graphics, who were on the forefront of color image management for both graphic arts and fine art printmaking.

While initial drivers did present these image quality problems, later drivers offered image quality arguably matching that of Voodoo Graphics.

" The Sewanee Graphics Identity Standards Manual, a document reflecting the official policies of the university with respect to its public image, states, in part:

* " Ping " is the proper pronunciation of PNG, short for Portable Network Graphics, a bitmap image format

A brown dog is " looking for those RIP conferences ..." RIP Graphics image by John Kwasnik.

Bitmap fonts are like image formats such as Windows Bitmap (. bmp ), Portable Network Graphics (. png ) and Tagged Image Format (. tif or. tiff ), which store the image data as a grid of pixels, in some cases with compression.

Outline or stroke image formats such as Windows Metafile format (. wmf ) and Scalable Vector Graphics format (. svg ), store instructions in the form of lines and curves of how to draw the image rather than storing the image itself.

With the introduction of the Advanced Graphics Architecture a conventional planar image could have a palette of 256 colors with significantly higher color fidelity.

OCS was eventually followed by the modestly improved Enhanced Chip Set ( ECS ) in 1990 and finally by the partly 32-bit Advanced Graphics Architecture ( AGA ) in 1992.

ReTargetable Graphics is a device driver API mainly used by 3rd party graphics hardware to interface with AmigaOS via a set of libraries.

Graphics cards are designed primarily for 2D artwork production, workstation use, and later, gaming.

The Accelerated Graphics Port ( often shortened to AGP ) is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.

The prints produced by Giacometti are often overlooked but the catalogue raisonné, Giacometti-The Complete Graphics and 15 Drawings by Herbert Lust ( Tudor 1970 ), comments on their impact and gives details of the number of copies of each print.

** Graphics clock: 7. 16 MHz

However, subsequent models removed this and the " Graphics Synthesizer " GPU, thus removing support for PS2 titles, but still able to play most original PS games.

Graphics and titles were developed by the Lambie-Nairn design agency and were gradually rolled out across the whole of BBC News, including a similar design for regional news starting with Newsroom South East and the three BBC Nations – Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

* Computer Graphics Interface, the low-level interface between the Graphical Kernel System ( GKS ) and the hardware.

In this Graphics Interchange Format |. gif of a 2D Adobe Flash | Flash animation, each ' stick ' of the stick figure | figure is Keyframe # Animation by means of computer graphics | keyframed over time to create motion.

In 1981, IBM introduced the Color Graphics Adapter, which could display four colors with a resolution of 320 by 200 pixels.

In 1984 IBM introduced the Enhanced Graphics Adapter which was capable of producing 16 colors and had a resolution of 640 by 350.

The Nova influenced the design of both the Xerox Alto ( 1973 ) and Apple I ( 1976 ) computers, and its architecture was the basis for the Computervision CGP ( Computervision Graphics Processor ) series.

It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of Scalable Vector Graphics ( SVG ) to draw the shape.

Many third party developers used the V64 in lieu of the PC64 Development Kit sold by Nintendo ; the V64 was considered an attractive, low cost alternative to the expensive N64 development machine, which was manufactured by Silicon Graphics at the time.

In 1970 Danny Cohen presented at the " Computer Graphics 1970 " conference in England a linear algorithm for drawing ellipses and circles.

Representatives of the EDA companies Daisy Systems, Mentor Graphics, Motorola, National Semiconductor, Tektronix, Texas Instruments and the University of California, Berkeley established the EDIF Steering Committee in November 1983.

In January 2010, Global Graphics completed a survey with 400 Chief Information Officers from organisations with over 1000 employees across the US and the UK that showed three quarters ( 76 per cent ) of large organisations use free software across the enterprise with over half ( 51 per cent ) planning to deploy more free software in 2010.

The services the lab conducts include Chemistry, Combined DNA Index System ( CODIS ), Computer Analysis and Response, DNA Analysis, Evidence Response, Explosives, Firearms and Tool marks, Forensic Audio, Forensic Video, Image Analysis, Forensic Science Research, Forensic Science Training, Hazardous Materials Response, Investigative and Prospective Graphics, Latent Prints, Materials Analysis, Questioned Documents, Racketeering Records, Special Photographic Analysis, Structural Design, and Trace Evidence.

* C implementation of Flood / Seed Fill Algorithm from Graphics Gems ; BSD ( ish ) license, by Paul Heckbert.

: The Generic Graphics Library ( GEGL ) was first introduced as part of GIMP on the 2. 6 release of GIMP.

Controversy over the licensing agreement between the patent holder, Unisys, and CompuServe in 1994 spurred the development of the Portable Network Graphics ( PNG ) standard.