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GRAPHICS
Title: GRAPHICS
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 533 | Pages: 2.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
GRAPHICS
Graphics are pictures, still and moving, such as illustrations, photographs, animations, and films. In 1963, Ivan Sutherland, a graduate student at MIT, created the first graphics program for small computers. Sutherland’s Sketchpad, which ran on a minicomputer and used a light pen to draw lines on a screen, was the first of a long line of graphics software programs that have revolutionized commercial and, to some extent, noncommercial illustration and design.
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…showed last 75 words of 533 total…good choice for producing graphic containing lots of regular geometric shapes, such as pie charts, bar graphs, and geometric figures. Today, distinctions between painting and drawing programs have blurred considerably because high-end drawing programs contain both drawing and painting features. Relatively simple painting and drawing programs are still available such as Microsoft Paint, which is bundled with the Windows 95 operating system. Professional computer illustrators generally work, however, in some more powerful and sophisticated programs.
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