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Define computer graphics

Short answer

Computer graphics is the field of creating, storing, manipulating, and displaying pictures and images using computers. It involves hardware and software that generate visual output from data and models, and may be interactive or non-interactive.

What is computer graphics?

Computer graphics is the field of computer science that deals with creating, storing, manipulating and displaying pictures and images (drawings, charts, animations and real-world scenes) using a computer. It covers the hardware and software used to generate images from data and models.

Example: drawing a 3D model of a building, a game scene, a bar chart or a CAD diagram on the screen. It can be interactive (the user changes the picture with an input device such as a mouse) or non-interactive.

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