Graphics helps represent information visually. It would be hard to imagine working on today's modern computer with no visually represented information. Not only computers have graphics but photographs, diagrams, engineering drawings, geometry are also termed as graphics. Computer graphics have evolved over the time and today's modern age computer comes with finest graphics and special purpose graphics processors (GPU - Graphical processing unit). The most fascinating example of computer graphics is the modern age Sci-Fi films. Computer graphics have advanced so much that these film looks very real.
Graphics are not only used in computers but are also in other disciplines. Engineering, medical, mathematics, education, Advertising and Business are some of the areas which uses graphics for variety of purposes.
We as a human work with information. We feed information to computer. Computers processes and presents information to the humans the way we want. Considering when there is a large amount of data to be analyzed, computer graphics can be used to visualize those data in a manner which is understandable to a human. Information visualization, Scientific visualization, Educational visualization, Visual analysis and Product visualization are some applications of Visualization. Being a Computer Scientist, Visual analysis attracts me the most. One potential use of Visual analysis is to analyse Social networks. Social networks carries lot of information which proves to be useful for so many purposes. Friend suggestions (Suggesting friends in the same network), People influence (Identifying influential people in a social network), Entity resolution (identifying same person having multiple profiles) and Movie ratings (Suggesting movies to users based on their a-like friends feedback) are some of the inferences that can be derived from social networks visualization.
Follow this link to find out more about social networks and analyzing it's network.
To see how your LinkedIn social network looks visually, click here. (I recommend try it out). Image in this blog post shows my LinkedIn network!
Follow this link to find out more about social networks and analyzing it's network.
To see how your LinkedIn social network looks visually, click here. (I recommend try it out). Image in this blog post shows my LinkedIn network!
Hi Mehal, I totally agree with you that computer graphics has become more popular and widely used in many fields. 65% of us are visual learners, so without computer graphics, it would be hard for us to study and absorb things. In my opinion, without the support of advanced hardware technology, computer graphics would not be how it is nowadays. Anyways, your post is overall informative and engaging. You could improve it a bit more by providing more images. Good job. Keep it up.
ReplyDeleteGood post! Developing web interfaces and computer graphics is something I really enjoy. I agree with you in the sense that computer graphics are very important as so we can interact with any system and be able to visualize the interaction with the specific device. Computers wouldn't be so practical and useful if it wasn't for the introduction of User Interfaces and computer graphics.
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