Computer graphics is a pictorial communication between humans and computers. While almost any problem and solution can be reduced to alphanumeric form, it is often an unnatural and time-consuming way to think and work. Introduced in the 1970s, graphic...

The basic building block of images on a computer screen is a dot of light called a pixel—the word created by combining the words "picture" and "element." The computer, because it can present thousands of pixels on a...

Computer graphics is a sub-field of computer science and is concerned with digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content. Although the term often refers to three-dimensional computer graphics, it also encompasses two-dimensional graphics and...

Dear Mr. Computer, When I bought my first Macintosh computer a dozen years ago, it was a piece of cake to use. Now even basic word processing software has so many bells and whistles I'm totally bamboozled. Whatever happened to "user friendly"? Arthur...

A host of computer graphics software is available for builders to use as marketing tools. Computer presentations, unlike printed materials, offer consistency, freedom and impact at moderate costs. However, builders should make the target audience see and understand the building project as they do,...

A television station apologized to viewers after an Internet video showed a longtime weather anchor clowning around in front of a computer graphic of a woman's breast.WBKO-TV said on its Web site that it has reprimanded weather anchor Chris Allen for "acting in a juvenile...

A federal judge granted class-action status to a lawsuit alleging that Target Corp. is breaking California and federal law by failing to make its Web site usable for the blind.The plaintiffs fault Target for not adopting technology used by other companies to make Web sites...