While working on the Internet or using computer programs, you probably paid attention to a variety of graphic images, many of which are extremely beautiful. Their creation became possible thanks to computer graphics - an area of activity in which the capabilities of a computer are used to create an image.
Modern computer graphics are widely used, and their applications are truly countless. Graphics are used in the creation of computer games and printing products; advertising is unthinkable without it. Computer graphics are widely used on the Internet for website design and banner creation. It is difficult to imagine modern industrial design and architecture without it. For the average user, the most famous example of the use of computer graphics is the use of Adobe Photoshop. This program belongs to the tools for working with raster graphics. An image in a bitmap image consists of points, each of which has its own color parameters. When you enlarge a raster image, its quality decreases. An alternative to raster graphics is vector graphics. In it, image elements are formed not by points, but by lines. The area bounded by lines is filled with the desired color. Vector images can be enlarged without loss of quality. At the same time, vector graphics have their drawbacks - in particular, with its help it is difficult to create images with a smooth transition of colors. Therefore, vector graphics have become widespread where photographic accuracy is not required. In particular, it is widely used in advertising and design business, and is used in publishing. For the sake of fairness, it should be noted that very realistic images can be created in vector graphics, but this is fraught with great difficulties. The vector often contains photographic accurate images of technical devices - for example, cell phones, cameras, etc. Such images are commonly used in advertising and are very bright and crisp. To work in a vector, two programs are usually used - Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw. Each of them has its own characteristics, so it cannot be said that one of them is better. However, for those who have worked with Adobe Photoshop, it is preferable to use Adobe Illustrator due to the similarity of the interface of both programs. Computer graphics allows you to create not only static images, but also animation, which is widely used in films and in the production of computer games. In particular, computer effects were widely introduced in the film industry after the release of the film Terminator 2, in which new revolutionary animation technologies were applied for the first time. Now it is difficult to imagine the creation of a truly spectacular film without the use of computer graphics. Speaking of computer graphics, one cannot fail to mention computer-aided design systems. They allow not only to create drawings of the device being developed, but also to see it in volume. The most famous programs of this type are AutoCAD and SolidWorks. Computer graphics are in great demand; specialists in this field are never left out of work. This is a very promising and rapidly developing area, without which it is already difficult to imagine the modern world.
