Overview of Hardware Primitives

With the advancement of computer technology, computer graphics has become a practical tool used in real life applications in diverse areas such as science, engineering, medicine, business, industry, art, entertainment, education, etc. Due to such widespread applications and utility of computer graphics, now a days a broad range of graphics hardware and software systems are available. You make use of a wide variety of input devices and graphic software packages while using your personal computers for your day-to-day work. In this unit, we shall familiarise you with the basic features of graphics hardware components and graphics software packages.