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

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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.

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Graphics operator gave me her Dell laptop to check. "Me: What do you want me to do with it? Smash it with a hammer?" :)
MaxZhichao (Maximilian Zhichao) Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:54:17 -0000
Graphics operator gave me her Dell laptop to check. "Me: What do you want me to do with it? Smash it with a hammer?" :)
@spalmberg U mean for constructing geometric figures? I've used Blender 4 that-- it's free open source software for 3D graphics
amscomath (U Avalos) Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:53:51 -0000
@spalmberg U mean for constructing geometric figures? I've used Blender 4 that-- it's free open source software for 3D graphics
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AtomskShade (Walker Thompson) Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:53:33 -0000
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