University Institute Of Computing

Bachelor of Computer Applications

Computer Graphics 20CAT-312

Introduction to Computer DISCOVER . LEARN .

EMPOWER
Graphics and Its Applications
 Computer
Topics Graphics
 Direct View Storage Tube
 Flat-Panel Displays
 Graphics Monitor and
Workstation

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 Direct View Storage Tube
1. Instead of refreshing screen, it
keeps information inside CRT.
2. Picture information is stored as
a charge distribution behind the
phosphorous screen.
3. Two guns are used in DVST,
Primary Gun and Flood Gun.
4. Primary helps in storing picture
patterns and flood gun maintain
picture patterns.
5. No refresh require.
6. Usually do not display colours.
7. Part of a picture can not be
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refreshed.
8. Erasing old picture and
 Flat Panel Display
● The term Flat-panel display refers
to a class of video devices that
have reduced volume, weight,
and power requirements
compared to a CRT.
● We can separate flat-panel
displays into two categories:
1. emissive displays
2. Non emissive displays
● The emissive displays (or
emitters) are devices that convert
electrical energy into light.
• Plasma panels, thin-film
electroluminescent displays,
and Light-emitting diodes are
examples of emissive displays.
● Non emissive displays
(or non emitters) use
optical effects to convert
sunlight or light from
some other source into
graphics patterns.
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 Emissive Display – Plasma
Panel
● also called gas-discharge displays,
are constructed by filling the • Disadvantage of plasma panels has
been that they were strictly
region between two glass plates
monochromatic devices (of One
with a mixture of gases that Colour)
usually includes neon.
● series of vertical conducting
ribbons is placed on one glass
panel, and a set of horizontal
ribbons is built into the other glass
panel.
● Firing voltages applied to a pair of
horizontal and vertical conductors
cause the gas at the intersection of
the two conductors to break
down into a glowing plasma of
electrons and ions.
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 Emissive - Thin-Film
Electroluminescent Displays
● similar in construction to a plasma panel
● The difference is that the region
between the glass plates is filled with
a phosphor, such as zinc sulfide doped
with manganese, instead of a gas.
● When a sufficiently high voltage is
applied to a pair of crossing electrodes,
the phosphor becomes a conductor in
the area of the intersection of the two
electrodes.
● Disadvantage : Electroluminescent
displays require more power than
plasma panels, and good color and gray
scale displays are hard to achieve.

Basic Design of a thin-film Electroluminescent Display

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 Emissive Displays - Light-emitting
diode (LED)
● A matrix of diodes is
arranged to form the
pixel positions in the
display, and picture
definition is stored in a
refresh buffer.
● Information is read from
the refresh buffer and
converted to voltage levels
that are applied to the
diodes to produce the light
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 Non emissive displays - Liquid
●
Crystal
LCDS are commonly used
Displays
● Two glass plates, each
containing a light polarizer
in small systems, such
at right angles to the-other
as calculators and
plate, sandwich the liquid-
portable, laptop
crystal material.
computers.
● Rows of horizontal
● Produce a picture by passing
transparent conductors are
polarized light from the
built into one glass plate, and
surroundings or from an
columns of vertical
internal light source through a
conductors are put into the
liquid-crystal material that
other plate.
can be aligned to either block
● The intersection of two
or transmit the light.
conductors defines a
● The term liquid crystal refers to
pixel position
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● There are two states
 Graphics
Graphic Monitors
Monitor
The name itself giving some idea that, Monitor which is capable of
displaying “Graphics”. Most graphics monitors today operate as raster
scan displays.
So Monitors which are capable of showing and supporting Graphics
mode along with the Text modes.

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 Graphics
Monitor

A high-definition graphics monitor used in applications such as

air traffic control, medical imaging, and CAD.

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 Graphics
Monitor
Graphic monitors who can display pictures on its screen, of
course it acts like an output device. The monitors which
support the following Graphic applications are said to be
Graphic Monitors:
The Graphics Applications include:-
A): Animation Software’s
B): CAD Software’s
C): Drawing programs
D): Paint Application programs
E): Presentation Graphics1 MaySoftware’s
2015 (Excel likewise,
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creating pie and bar

charts)
F): Desktop publishing (MS Office, Share points,
Document managements)
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 Workstation
Workstation is also a computer which varies
generally with other General Computers.
A workstation is a special computer designed for technical
or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used
by one person at a time, they are commonly connected
to a local area network and run multi-user operating
systems.

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 Workstation
Workstations were optimized for the visualization and
manipulation of different types of complex data such as 3D
mechanical design, engineering simulation , animation and
rendering of images.

Because these Workstations need good operating power of

computer . They must be able to support high power i.e.
it must sustain good graphic capabilities.

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 Animati 3D Car
on model
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 Workstation
These kind of computers comes with the following
specifications. Unlike normal general computers they
consists of:

A):Minimum of 64 Megabytes of RAM & high

processor
B):Very good Resolution Graphics screen
C):High and Large Screen
D):GUI Graphical User Interface
E):Mass storage Device like Disk
Drive
F):Built-in Network Support and
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 Workstation:
A computer that is used to power applications
such as graphic art, 3-D design, Video Editing,
or other intensive software.
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 Workstation
We may also notice that, some of the workstations do not have
any disk drives in it. So these kind of disk drives are called as
Diskless workstation.

Workstations took place of and they lie between Personal

computer and minicomputers as far as Computing power is
concerned.

These can be used as both types such as stand system (which

only consists of one) and Local area network. So basically in
this LAN kind, workstations are typically connected together
one and other.
 Many graphics workstations are configured with two monitors. One
monitor can be used to show all features of an object or scene, while the
second monitor displays the detail in some part of the picture. Another
use for dual-monitor systems is to view a picture on one monitor and
display graphics options (menus) for manipulating the picture
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components on the other monitor.
 Is there any difference b/w
Workstation and Server???

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 Workstation and
A server is a computerServer
whose purpose is to handle requests for
data from other computers. Website servers provide visitors'
computers with the data necessary to display its Web pages;
servers on your company's local network provide files to your
employees' computers. Servers can host applications, but people
access that application through their own computers. Employees
do not sit down at a server to do their work, unless their work is
maintaining the server.

A workstation is a personal computer that is used for high end

applications such as graphic design, video editing, CAD, 3-D
design, or other CPU and RAM intensive programs. A
workstation typically has a top of the line, fast processor,
multiple
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hard drives, and a lot of RAM memory. A workstation
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