graphics

One persistant annoyance to me is when people look at a site, and declare it as poorly designed', when the only problem with said site is that it may not have the most professional-looking' graphics, or perhaps it doesn't quite have the right Web-2.0′ appeal. I have news for you: Good design has *nothing* to do with pretty graphics.

Choosing the right design, the right designer and the right graphics is essential. Selecting the right business, the right platform and the right time is crucial. If you have an artistic hand but don't know how to write, or you have beautiful voice and you don't know how to sing, you may have a gift, but a paralyzed one. You have a website and don't know what its composition is; you have graphics and don't know how they are designed; just the lack of this information you may lose your business.

Novell announced on Tuesday significant enhancements to the Xgl (X over OpenGL) graphics subsystem. Xgl is new core rendering technology for the Linux desktop that takes advantage of widely available accelerated 3D rendering hardware.

Early this year, I was inspired to create an experimental piece called varicose-g. Varicose-g uses a simple branching algorithm paired with the drawing API to draw an organic vein network. In Flash Player 7, the experiment ran slowly, and I was forced to dynamically clear older veins to reduce the graphic compositing overhead. This limited the generative quality of the experiment and reduced the complexity of the veins I could draw. With the release of Flash Player 8, I was able to make a number of updates that significantly increased the performance, complexity, and visual interest of the piece. Check it out (requires Flash Player 8): This article focuses on those changes, including the use of a custom bitmap caching routine, blurring remnant veins, and applying color adjustments. You can download the source code for this experiment in the Requirements section.

Perhaps you have a website, but you're just not totally happy with the graphics, or you haven't any graphics at all.

Graphic images on your computer come in two different forms, raster images and vector images. Raster images are made by programs such as Photoshop and Corel Photopaint.

It's no secret that a picture is worth a thousand words or that people really do judge a book by its cover.

Macromedia has a wonderful software application that helps users create great-looking text graphics by using anti-aliasing capabilities.