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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 ]
Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:05:00 -0700
Sometime in August, Microsoft plans to release Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. Yesterday, I spoke with Austin Wilson, Director of Windows Client Product Management at Microsoft, about some of the security-related changes due in this milestone, and got a preview of the changes announced today. Here are some details...
Sony PlayStation's site SQL injected, redirecting to rogue security software
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:10:06 -0700
The latest high trafficked web site to fall victim into the continuing waves of massive SQL injection attacks courtesy of copycats and the ASProx botnet, is Sony's PlayStation U.S site according to a recent post at SophosLabs's blog : "Researchers at IT security firm Sophos have warned lovers of...
Stop the madness: 10 steps to kill failures
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:30:30 -0700
Are you too pussy-footed to pull the plug on projects that will inevitably fail? If so, you're not alone. Whether through fear, denial, or ignorance, many organizations don't kill their doomed projects fast enough. It's a darn shame because these lousy things can drive everyone crazy while burning scarce resources....
SlideShare: user communication failure
Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:20:27 -0700
While Enterprise 2.0 applications can be useful, hassles sometimes abound. In this case, I innocently tried to upload a simple file to SlideShare, only to learn things aren't always straightforward.After attempting to upload the file, I received an error message stating in part: There's a big chance this is...
What programming language should we teach?
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:21:54 -0700
I had a discussion shortly before the end of the year with one of our exchange students regarding a programming class I wanted to teach. My goal was simply to introduce programming concepts and algorithmic thinking. Heck, I'd be happy if the kids could walk out of the...
Eclipse Foundation delivers Ganymede train with 23 cars, but where are the cloud on-ramps?
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:28:47 -0700
Now that the Eclipse Foundation has proven it mettle with delivery of consistent and complete packages of downloads -- now's the time to take this puppy to the cloud. I'd like to see more integration between Eclipse products and cloud-based development, integration and deployment services. And I'm not alone on...
AnaBuilder - Java program for the creation of anaglyph-type stereoscopic photographs.
Meta Description: [ AnaBuilder est un freeware pour la création de photos en relief (anaglyphes). Avec 2 vues décalées d'une même scène, AnaBuilder construit une image stereoscopique observable avec des lunettes Rouge/Cyan. Il permet de recaler les 2 prises de vue l'une par rapport à l'autre, à la main... ou ... ]
Aros Fractals - A hi-res, true-color fractal generation program for Macintosh and Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT.
Meta Description: [ Aros Fractals is a free, hires, true-color fractal program for Windows95, NT and Macintosh. ]
Capture A ScreenShot - A simple screen capture tool that allows one to capture the last active screen, full screen, or selected area.
Meta Description: [ Screen Capture Software and a memory optimizer to free up ram. ]
Cd Cover Site - A program to create audio and video covers. Supports CDDB, multilanguage functions, and print preview. Source code available.
Meta Description: [ CD COVER site, the best program to download & print covers of audiocd/vcd. ]
Clipper - Screen capture utility that supports JPEG, GIF, PNG and Bitmap formats.
Digital Camera Enhancer - Automatically balance and reduce the noise in your images. Also balance the color and the midtones, zoom in and out, and preview the changes before applying them, freeware.
Meta Description: [ Multimedia authoring and graphics software with MP3 support, great for autorun CD - a easy to use CD autorun and multimedia authoring tool ]
Engauge Digitizer - Tool converts an image file showing a graph or map, into numbers. The numbers can be read or sent to a spreadsheet. Works in Windows and Linux.
Meta Description: [ Digitizing software for converting graphs and maps into numbers. Image files from scanners, digital cameras and screenshots are easily converted, and exported into spreadsheets. ]
Free Buttons - Reviews and downloads of several pieces of Windows software for making button graphics.
Meta Description: [ Free Buttons - Your source for free web button sets and button design freeware. ]
Free Web Buttons - Create web buttons and menus using a simple UI. [Win32]
Meta Description: [ Free Web Buttons helps you create web menus and buttons with ease. ]
Geodesic Domes - DOS and Windows utility for generating the coordinates of a geodesic dome or sphere.
ImageN - Image acquisition, viewing and publishing utility. The program downloads images from a memory card or a digital still camera.
Meta Description: [ Acquire, view, edit, organize and publish digital images. Digital camera support, image viewer, image editor, image database, web server, thumbnail catalog. ]
Jans Graphics Collection - A GIF animator, a scriptable painting program, and an image converter.
Meta Description: [ Collection of over 100 freeware programs written by Jan Verhoeven ]
Jdatestamp - A program for lossless date imprint on JPEG pictures using EXIF info from a digital camera. Program source and binary for Windows, Linux, MAC OS-X, Solaris and FreeBSD available for download.
JR Screen Ruler - Tool that allows the accurate measure of anything on the computers screen. Useful when measuring graphics, web page browser sizes or whatever. Screen Ruler can display Pixels, Inches, Picas or Centimeters. Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP
Meta Description: [ JR Screen Ruler - Free virtual ruler for your computer screen. This Screen Ruler is a great tool that allows you to accurately measure anything on your screen. This is especially useful when measuring graphics, web page browser sizes or whatever. Screen Ruler can display Pixels, Inches, Picas or ... ]
Kiddo - A free drawing program for children or adults.
Magical Glass - Magnifier for editing pixels in graphic editors, resides in the system tray. [Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP]
Meta Description: [ Free! computer screen magnifier, located above a cursor Windows,
the overlay is used. Hot Key. Does not hinder work by the mouse, it is good for editing pixel in the graphic editors, and it is simple for examining small-sized detailses. Freeware Desktop utility. Click for Install Magical Glass! A... ]
Natural Resources Database - The NRDB is a free GIS tool for developing and distributing environmental databases. Support for polygons, coordinates, numeric and text based data.
Meta Description: [ NRDB is a free GIS tool for developing and distributing environmental databases. Its aim is to provide people in developing countries with a powerful yet simple tool to
assist in the managing of their own resources. ]
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PCGrapher - Tool for creating 2D and 3D graphs using Gnuplot, especially suited for LaTeX users. Output can be eps, pdf, metapost, or latex formatted file.
Photo Album Helper Monkey - A Java 2 application that can create and maintain web based photo albums.
Meta Description: [ EarthLink is the number-one rated Internet service provider, as well as the largest independent ISP. With local dial-up access from over 1,300 locations nationwide, toll-free 24-hour technical support, email, free webspace, and other member benefits, EarthLink is the Internet's best value. EarthL... ]
Photo Sorter - Organizes digital images into groups of pictures quickly and easily.
Meta Description: [ Photo Sorter. Freeware Digital Camera Photo Organizer ]
Photo2Web Publisher - Program to publish photos on the web. It creates thumbnails, resize photos, and generate HTML pages.
Photodex Corporation - Download a free trial of CompuPic, the Digital Content Manager for all your graphics, photos and pictures. Use this software to view, edit, e-mail, catalog, and manage digital photos, images, sounds and videos plus create digital greeting cards.
Photos processor - Allows one to resize all images in source folder and save the results into another folder with one single action -- drag and drop.
PicPerk - Free image viewer and editor.
Meta Description: [ Nsdai Software. Software for Windows. PicPerk: Digital photo software, picture viewer & photo editor. View, manage, print, and edit digital photos fast and easily. Picture viewer, photo editor, slideshow, desktop management... MoviePerk: Video player, avi, mpeg, asf, wmv, playlist and full screen ]
Pictoscope - Image viewer that displays images in four different forms normal, full screen, slide show, and thumbnails. Product overview, documentation, screen shot, and download.
Meta Description: [ Pictoscope is an ergonomic image viewer with all you
need to enjoy your digital images in various comfortable ways. ]
Pixia - A painting tool available in Japanese, German, and English.
Plot Digitizer - A java program used to digitize scanned plots of functional data. Includes an automatic digitization feature. [MacOS X, Windows, Linux]
Meta Description: [ A Java program that can be used to easily digitize scanned data plots. ]
Pseudo Solutions - Image Enhance image editor for Windows. It features support for bitmap and JPEG images, webcams, digital cameras and scanners. Apply different filters and effects or design your own filters.
Reptile - An excellent webpage background generator. It allows you to easily produce many combinations of wavy, bubbly, organic, big, small, wide, narrow, rough or smooth texture background graphics. Clean simple to use interface has near zero learning curve.
Meta Description: [ HotDog Web Editors - HotDog Professional, HotDog PageWiz, HotDog Junior, FlashPoint, RSS News Readers, and SuperToolz - Created by Sausage Software ]
sankaku - Ceates an unfolded tetrahedron image from a cylindrical projection image. Also converts a two dimensional image into a picture with four sides, a tetrahedron.
Meta Description: [ Sankaku is a software program that can create an unfolded tetrahedron image from a cylindrical projection image. Sankaku converts a two dimensional image into a picture with four sides, a tetrahedron. After you have created the tetrahedron, you can print it out and fold it creating a three di... ]
Screen Capture - Software for capturing images for documentation. A captured image is stored in the clipboard for a future processing by any of the available tool.
ScreenPrint32 - Screen capture and printing utility. Images may also be saved in various file formats. Registration is free to home users.
Meta Description: [ Software Design & Support Enginners . ]
Tempest Solutions - Free white paper and software utilities for managing collections of digital photos and audio/video files. [Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP]
WinMorph - High performance warping and morphing software for Windows 95/NT/+.
Meta Description: [ Homepage of WinMorph, a high performance morphing and warping software ]
WStar - Freeware program generates patterns with lines and circles. Source code available.
Meta Description: [ Delphi drawing program and component with source. Free software. ]
Xentient Thumbnails - A utility for replacing the generic icons of image files with thumbnail icons of the actual image. [Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP]
zegraph - A tool for scientific data visualization and yet can be used to create 3D arts in a broad scope. It uses OpenGL as the rendering engine and Z-Script as the scripting language.
Zoom - Program that allows the user to continuously see in a window parts of the screen which the mouse moves on in customisable magnified size; it also provides a facility to capture and resize those parts. Site includes a general description, screen shots, and previous versions.
Meta Description: [ Zoom software. Magnify and capture, low vision, screen graphic, lessons, presentations and teaching. Lens, loupe, magnifier, zoomer on screen. Graphic, low, vision, impaired, eye, eyes, problem, people, user, users, sight, lessons, presentations, conference, video. Software to magnify, edit, capt... ]
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