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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 ]
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Adobe Systems Incorporated - Featuring Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects.
Art Age Software - EPS and PostScript pros. Leading developer of quality shareware utilities for Macintosh including epsConverter, EPStoPICT, EPS Factory and EPS Mover.
Art Directors Toolkit 2.4 - By Code Line Communications, this software allows users to manipulate and analyze fonts. Offers a free 15-launch demo.
CreativePro - Resource for creative professionals in graphic design, desktop publishing, and pre-press.
Extensis - Productivity tools for creative professionals.
Meta Description: [ Macintosh and Windows Font Managers and Font Management software for small and large workgroups.
Digital Asset Management software for sharing and archiving digital assets in a small workgroup or around the world. Support for Apples Universal Application (Univery Binary) ]
Geo3D - Freeware 3D Metafile (3DMF) viewer with many features that is available in English, French, and German.
Meta Description: [ topoi software by Stefan Huber: Geo3D is a 3D Metafile (3DMF/QD3D/Quesa) viewer with many features. Anatas converts text 3DMF files to binary form and vv. AnatasCM is the corresponding contextual menu plug-in. ]
Graphic Converter - A graphics editor that also allows users to save files in a number of different formats, including the more common JPG and GIF formats, as well as less common formats, such as PNG and Apple File Icon.
Meta Description: [ Home Page of Lemke Software. The developer of the Mac OS software applications GraphicConverter, FontBook, CADintosh and SnapsCleaner. ]
Image Rodeo - Template-based web photo album creator for Macintosh OS X. Choose from built-in templates, or create own using HTML and JavaScript.
Meta Description: [ Image Rodeo is the simplest way to publish your photos online.
Choose from several built-in templates or build your own using HTML.
Supports IPTC information. ]
Kursiv GmbH - Offers publishing software, including plug-ins, extensions, stock images and layout software. Offers trial versions available and online shop.
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Mac version of Panoweaver - Create a full 360 image and retain complete control over panorama image creation. Images are saved in JPG PSD, BMP format. [PC/Mac]
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Macromedia - Freehand, Flash and Fireworks.
Maxon Computer - Makers of Cinema 4D.
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Meshwork - A 3D triangle-mesh modeling program for the Mac OS designed especially for making compact, efficient objects for use in 3D games or on the web.
MicroFrontier - Producers of Digital Darkroom, Color It! 4.0 and Enhance 4.0.
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Microspot USA Inc. - Makers of graphics utilities such as 3D World, PhotoFix, and MacInteriors.
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PatchDance - PatchDance is a new 3D graphics package. It is currently limited to modeling, is PowerMac only, and outperforms essentially everything else available on the Mac platform.
POV-Ray Site - The official site for the freeware ray-tracing program POV-Ray.
Silhouette - Bitmap-to-vectors converter with unique retouching tools. Available for OS-X. Offers news and quicktime video demonstrations.
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