What are the two main categories of computer graphics and explain each of them?

Answer 1

Porn and on-porn.

non-porn will be similar to the pictures of your friends at the Pokemon convention, while porn will consist mainly of pictures of your mom and sister (btw, they are hot!).

Answer 2

Computer graphics is a sub-field of computer science and is concerned with digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content.Computer graphics as an academic discipline focuses on the mathematical and computational foundations of image generation and processing rather than purely aesthetic issues.

Two main categories
- 2D
-3D

Computer graphics is often differentiated from the field of visualization, although the two have many similarities.

Two dimensional surfaces are a good analogy for the objects most often used in graphics, though quite often these objects are non-manifold. Since surfaces are not finite, a discrete digital approximation is required: polygonal meshes (and to a lesser extent subdivision surfaces) are by far the most common representation, although point-based representations have been gaining some popularity in recent years

A broad classification of major subfields in computer graphics might be:

1. Geometry: studies ways to represent and process surfaces
2. Animation: studies with ways to represent and manipulate motion
3. Rendering: studies algorithms to reproduce light transport
4. Imaging: studies image acquisition or image editing


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Answer 3

I'm going to take a different approach than the other responders and say: OpenGL and DirectX.

OpenGL is a powerful, open standard used by most of the game consoles (with the notable exception of the XBox line). Many, many games are written in OpenGL. They can be easily ported to most operating systems and consoles. Most video cards support OpenGL.

DirectX is Microsoft's graphics standard. Games written in DirectX run easily on Windows and on the XBox, but not on anything else. PC video cards usually come with DirectX drivers.

Answer 4

Vector and Bitmap.

Vector: defined by coordinate points (x,y), line segments and curves. Can scale to any size with no degradation in quality - think of a laser light show projecting a picture or Tempest video game. Adobe Illustrator creates vector graphics. True Type fonts are vector based.

Bitmap: defined by a grid of pixels having any color. Most graphics on the web are bitmaps (jpegs, bmps, pngs, etc.). When zoomed in they lose definition and become "jaggy". Adobe Photoshop produces bitmap graphics.