Graphics

What is Graphics?

Computer graphics includes the process and outcomes associated with using computer technology to convert created or collected data into visual representations. In other words, Computer Graphics is the pictorial representation of information using a computer program. In Computer Graphics, pictures as graphical subjects are represented as a collection of discrete picture element called pixels.

Pixel is smallest addressable screen element.

 

Pixel Column

P1 & P2 are represented as one pixel (4, 3)

The process of determining the appropriate pixels for representing pictures or object is Rasterization & the process of representing continuous pictures as graphical object as a collection of discrete pixel is called Scan Conversion.