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{{Quotation|Perhaps the best way to define computer graphics is to find out what it is not. It is not a machine. It is not a computer, nor a group of computer programs. It is not the know-how of a graphic designer, a programmer, a writer, a motion picture specialist, or a reproduction specialist. | {{Quotation|Perhaps the best way to define computer graphics is to find out what it is not. It is not a machine. It is not a computer, nor a group of computer programs. It is not the know-how of a graphic designer, a programmer, a writer, a motion picture specialist, or a reproduction specialist. | ||
Computer graphics is all these – a consciously managed and documented technology directed toward communicating information accurately and descriptively.|[Fetter, 1965]}} | Computer graphics is all these – a consciously managed and documented technology directed toward communicating information accurately and descriptively.|[Fetter, 1965]}} | ||
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[Fetter, 1966] W. A. Fetter, Computer Graphics in Communication, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1965. | [Fetter, 1966] W. A. Fetter, Computer Graphics in Communication, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1965. <br> | ||
[Wikipedia, 2007] Finlay McWalter, Utah Teapot, Wikipedia. Retrieved at: November 8, 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Utah_teapot.png. | |||
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Definition
Perhaps the best way to define computer graphics is to find out what it is not. It is not a machine. It is not a computer, nor a group of computer programs. It is not the know-how of a graphic designer, a programmer, a writer, a motion picture specialist, or a reproduction specialist.
Computer graphics is all these – a consciously managed and documented technology directed toward communicating information accurately and descriptively.
[Fetter, 1965]
References
[Fetter, 1966] W. A. Fetter, Computer Graphics in Communication, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1965.
[Wikipedia, 2007] Finlay McWalter, Utah Teapot, Wikipedia. Retrieved at: November 8, 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Utah_teapot.png.
