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Encyclopedia > Graphics editor

In computer graphics, graphics software is a program or collection of programs that enable a person to manipulate visual images on a computer. Computer graphics (CG) is the field of visual computing, where one utilizes computers both to generate visual images synthetically and to integrate or alter visual and spatial information sampled from the real world. ... Program or Programme can refer to: a computer program a radio program, a television program a collection of managed projects a 12-step program one of the short films in The Animatrix series. ... The tower of a personal computer (specifically a Power Mac G5). ...


There is a variety of software belonging to graphics software including:

A bitmap graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to paint and edit pictures interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many popular bitmap or raster formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF. Usually an image viewer is preferred over a bitmap graphics... A vector graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to compose and edit vector graphics images interactively on the computer screen (compare with MetaPost) and save them in one of many popular vector graphics formats such as CDR, PDF, WMF or SVG. Introduction Vector editors are often contrasted...

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Graphical editors are an apt focus for this research, since they can be used for many different tasks, such as constructing technical illustrations, organizational charts, network diagrams, flow charts, and architectural drawings.
Graphical search and replace, as presented in the last section, lacks an important capability: it can be used to find and alter the complete shape of an object, but not individual geometric relationships.
However, histories of applications in a graphical user interface present a special challenge, since graphical properties such as colors and line styles must be represented in a user-understandable fashion, and geometric characteristics such as position become important to the interpretation of commands.
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