Short note: Applications of computer graphics

Computer graphics is used in many fields.

• Computer-aided design (CAD): design of buildings, machines, circuits, cars and aircraft.
• Presentation graphics: bar charts, pie charts, graphs and slides for business and science.
• Entertainment: games, animation, movies, special effects, music videos.
• Education and training: flight and driving simulators, virtual labs.
• Visualization: scientific and medical visualization (CT/MRI imaging), weather maps, molecular models.
• Image processing: photo editing, satellite image analysis, pattern recognition.
• Graphical user interfaces: windows, icons, menus in operating systems and apps.
• Virtual reality and augmented reality: immersive simulation and training.
• Cartography and GIS: maps and terrain models.