Computer Graphics

What are computer graphics?

-Computer graphics are computer generated images.

What is the goal of computer graphics?

-The goal of computer graphics since it's beginning is photo realism.

If you don't have the best actors or stories, how do production companies convince you to see their films?

-utilize special effects that will blow people away
-i.e. 300, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter

With computer technology we are now able to create scenes, plots and stories that take us beyond what film could do previously. Before this was called special effects. Films today, however, are filled with so many special effects that we have to ask ourselves what are "special" effects?

When we did the exercise with digital remix we see one of the obvious benefits of digital imagery. Computer graphics, computer generated images, have given us a wide variety of options. Our own imaginations are the only limit to what we can do.

What else do computer generated graphics allow us to do?

Computer generated graphics allows us to think differently about how we operate our computers. When Bill Gates heard about these two guys who had produced this new operating system called Mac he gave his employers marching errors to create something similar. We now know this system as Windows.

Shows you all the information that you can do rather than you having to write the code out (i.e. DOS). This gives the user and understanding of how the system works just by looking at it. You see it digitally!

EVERYONE in the WHOLE WORLD works like this. They look at the same pictures and the same interfaces. Wherever you are, if you get a computer and you start it up you get the same think in China that you'd get in the United States.