Applications of Computer Graphics

Applications of Computer Graphics

Computer graphics is used today in many different areas of industry, business, government, education, entertainment, and most recently, the home. The list of applications is enormous and is growing rapidly as computers with graphics capabilities become commodity products. Let`s look at a representative sample of these areas

• Cartography: Computer graphics is used to produce both accurate and schematic representations of geographical and other natural phenomena from measurement data. Examples include geographic maps, weather maps, contour maps, etc.
• User interfaces: have user interfaces is rely on desktop window systems to manage multiple simultaneous activities, and on point and click facilities to allow users to select menu items, icons, and objects on the screen; typing is necessary only to input text to be stored and manipulated. Word-processing, spreadsheet, are typical applications that take.
• Plotting in business, science and technology: The next most common use of graphics today is probably to create 2D and 3D graphs of mathematical, physical, and economic functions; histograms, bar and pie charts; task-scheduling charts; inventory and production charts, and the like . All these are used to present meaningfully and concisely the trends and patterns gleaned from data, so as to clarify complex phenomena and to facilitate informed decision making.
• Office automation and electronic publishing: Office automation and electronic publishing can produce both traditional printed (hardcopy) documents and electronic (softcopy) documents that allow browsing of networks of interlinked multimedia documents are proliferating
• Computer-aided drafting and design: In computer-aided design (CAD), interactive graphics is used to design components and systems of mechanical, electrical, electromechanical, and electronic devices, including structure such as buildings, automobile bodies, airplane and ship hulls, very large scale-integrated (VLSI) chips, optical systems, and telephone and computer networks.
• Simulation and animation for scientific visualization and entertainment: Computer produced animated movies and displays or the time-varying behavior of real and simulated objects are becoming increasingly popular for scientific and engineering visualization.
• Art and commerce: Overlapping the previous categories the use of computer graphics in art and advertising here, computer graphics is used to produce pictures that express a message and attract attention. 
• Process control: Whereas flight simulators or arcade games let users interact with a simulation of a real or artificial world, many other applications enable people or interact with some aspect of the real world itself. For example, military commanders view field data – number and position of vehicles, weapons launched, troop movements, etc.