Name: Sidhant Kumar Panda

Reg. No.: 170704120001

BSc. Physics

Computer Graphics is the combination of two words that is computer and graphics. We know what a
computer is. Graphics means to plot some points on a graph to make an image. Every image is the
combination of dots and if we join those dots on a 2-Dimensional plane then image can be created. With
the same analogy, if we think computer as a graph paper, the points (or the dots) which constitute an
image on the computer screen is termed as Pixels. If we create an image (or a combination of it) by
joining these pixels on a computer screen then it is called Computer Graphics.

It provides various tools to create and manipulate images and stores the data in a pictorical form for
proper visualization using a computer.

There are two kinds of Computer Graphics:

1) Raster Graphics (or Bitmap image),

2) Vector Graphics

Raster Graphics means the graphics that are made up of an array (or Matrix) of pixels of different
colours. The photographs taken from phone or camera are Raster Graphics.

GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF define a standard for embedding relevant details about the Bitmap images.

The other broad/general type of graphics are vector graphics. Those define mathematical formulas for
drawing graphics such that a vectored square may contain as little information as the x and y coordinates
for it’s 4 corners and it will look the same regardless of what resolution it is displayed at where a raster
square would contain a detail for each and every dot that’s required to get the size right. That’s an over
simplification to an extent - compression can shrink the number of details when same colored dots get
repeated but still the files can be larger. Some formats that support vector graphics are EPS and SVG.