Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2007/08 - Gruppe 09 - Aufgabe 1 - Computer Graphics

Introduction

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.