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Graphics are visual presentations on some surface such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings, or other images. Graphics often combines text, illustration, and color. Graphics design may consist of the deliberate selection, creation, or arrangement of typography alone, as in a brochure, flier, poster, web site, or book without any other element. Clarity or effective communication may be the objective, association with other cultural elements may be sought, or merely, the creation of a distinctive style.
Graphics can be functional or artistic. Graphics can be imaginary or represent something in the real world. The latter can be a recorded version, such as a photograph, or an interpretation by a scientist to highlight essential features, or an artist, in which case the distinction with imaginary graphics may get blurred.
History
The earliest graphics known to anthropologists studying prehistoric periods are cave paintings and markings on boulders, bone, ivory, and antlers created during the Upper Palaeolithic period from 40,000 - 10,000 B.C. or earlier. Many of these were found to record astronomical, seasonal, and chronological details. Some of the earliest graphics and drawings known to the modern world, from almost 6,000 years ago, are that of engraved stone tablets and ceramic cylinder seals, marking the beginning of the historic periods and the keeping of records for accounting and inventory purposes. Records from Egypt predate these and papyrus was used by the Egyptians as a material on which to plan the building of pyramids; they also used slabs of limestone and wood. From 600-250 BC the Greeks played a major role in geometry. They used graphics to represent their mathematical theories such as the Circle Theorem and the Pythagorean theorem. More on [ Graphics ]
Libraries :: Graphics
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Identity Management Made Easy with OpenSSO
Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:27:00 -0000
Sun's open-source identity services initiative aims to provide an extensible foundation for an identity services infrastructure in the public domain, facilitating single sign-on (SSO) and cross-domain single sign-on (CDSSO) for web applications, federation capabilities, and secure Web services. Find out how it measures up.
Book Excerpt: Murach's Java Servlets and JSP (Second Edition)
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:28:00 -0000
The JSTL provides tags for common tasks that need to be performed in JSPs. Coupled with Expression Language, this allows you to remove much of the Java scripting from your applications, making your pages easier for web designers to work with and easier for you to maintain.
Access Your Stored Java Objects with the Iterator Design Pattern
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:23:00 -0000
Clean up clumsy and wasteful code with the iterator design pattern.
G - Generic 2D graphics library for Java. [Open source, LGPL]
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GEF - Graph Editing Framework - Class library for constructing graph/diagram editing applications. [Open Source, Apache]
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GINY (Graph INterface librarY) - Implements a very innovative system for sub-graphing and allows for stunning visuals and it provide a number of layout algorithms. [Open source, LGPL]
HyperGraph - A Swing based API to visualise graphs using hyperbolic geometry (hyperbolic trees). Example applet provided. [Open source, GPL]
ILOG JViews - Library and components based on Java2D for maps, diagrams, graph layout, gantt chart, charts, editors and workflow. For client or server side graphics, including SVG.
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Image Toolz - Manipulation methods for inversion, rotation, shifting, adding, loading, saving and creating images. (Open Source)
Java Image Visualization - Applets, beans and applications. [Freeware]
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Java Imaging and Graphics Library - Provides classes for data storage, image processing, image I/O and image display [Open Source, GPL].
Java-Gnome - Java GTK+ and Gnome bindings using JNI. [Open Source, LGPL]
JDrawing - A Swing component for displaying vector graphics and animation. It can deal efficiently with very large vector images e.g. geographic maps or electronic circuits.
JGo graphical object editor - A library for graphs, diagrams and networks, with an option for automatic layout by Northwoods Software. [Commercial]
Meta Description: [ Graphics libraries and components software from Northwoods Software. We make it easy to build custom interactive diagrams, networks or workflow editors. ]
JGraph - Graph visualization component for Swing. Includes tutorial, FAQ, and user guide. [Open Source, LGPL]
Meta Description: [ JGraph is an open source Swing Java Graph visualization and layout library, JGraph is an open source Swing Java Graph visualization and layout library ]
JInsight.com - Offers various class libraries including JetChart Library, which displays a variety of types of charts. [Commercial]
Meta Description: [ Java chart - The JetChart Library - a set of java classes
that displays a great variety of charts from applets, applications and servlets. ]
JIU - Java Imaging Utilities - This library offers functionality to load, analyze, process and save pixel images. [Open Source, GPL]
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JLOOX - JLOOX Visualization Suite is a powerful set of components and tools for the development of high quality Java-based visualization applications. JLOOXTelecom is a distributable component set that includes easy-to-use network oriented graphical views and non-graphical business components for building advanced Java-based network element management systems and network planning applications.
Mica 2D Toolkit - A object-oriented 2D graphics library written in Java. [Open source, Software Farm license]
OpenJGraph - Various graph-drawing and traversal algorithms. Support for user interaction such as adding and removing vertices. [Open Source, GPL]
PJA Toolkit - For generating images on servers, without the need for an X server. [Open Source, GPL]
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VirtualMachine.com - Utility class libraries: VMMemoryWatcher library that visually track memory changes in Java Virtual Machine; Flow monitor library that visually track process flow between containers. [Open source]
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Open Source Java Programs ]
XColor - Subclass of java.awt.Color that knows 752 colors by name - can be substituted for wherever java.awt.Color is used in programs. [Freeware]
Zooki Technologies - ExplicitLayout layout manager (Commercial) and EventInitializer to replace your anonymous inner classes (BSD).
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for professional software developers. Products include ExplicitLayout, a powerful layout manager for Java ]
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