Computer Graphics is an exciting and constantly evolving field. Find out your familiarity with this domain by taking this short quiz.
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Interesting Fact
William Fetter was a pioneer in the domain of computer graphics. Incidentally he was the first to generate a human figure as a 3D model.
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Quick Fact
3D computer graphics software appeared in home computers in late 1970s. The earliest instance is 3D Art Graphics, a set of 3D computer graphics effects released in June 1978 for Apple II.
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Interesting Tidbit
In 1988, John and Thomas Knoll built the first version of Photoshop on a Macintosh Computer, as it was the sole computer with a color display and the capacity to handle the program they were building.
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Trivia
In 1979, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center developed the first prototype for a GUI.
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Did You Know?
The first version of the CRT, dubbed the "Braun tube" was developed by Ferdinand Braun of Germany back in 1897.
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For Your Information
LCD employs the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers.
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Quick Bite
A bitmap also referred to as 'raster' is made from rows of different colored pixels put together to form an image.
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Know This
Pixelation happens on stretching pixels beyond their original size.
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Technical Fact
JPEG is a standard image format for containing lossy and compressed image data. Even with immense reduction in file size, JPEG images maintain reasonable image quality.
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Top Fact
Graphical Interchange Format is an image format created by Steve Wilhite, an American software writer who was seeking a way to animate images in the smallest file size.
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Quick Fact
The 3 steps to produce 3D Animation are: Modelling, Layout and animation, and Rendering.
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Did You Know?
Plasma displays are thinner than cathode ray tube (CRT) displays and brighter than liquid crystal displays (LCD).
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