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Unit 30 Digital Graphics
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D1 Evaluate the impact of evolving
output mediums on the design and
creation of graphic images
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By Dom Gorka
Introduction
Monitors have been around for quite a while now and they serve the
purpose of a being able to see what a computer is doing. They have
evolved significantly over the past few decades where we started with a
block non-HD monitor to where we have 1920x1080 HD monitors
nowadays.
Here
are two examples of computer monitors; the one on the left is the CRT
monitor. These are big and heavy and use a lot of desk space and
electricity. It is the oldest technology used by monitors and is based on
the cathode ray tube technology that was developed for television. On the
other hand on the right is an 1920x1080 HD monitor, it is a LED monitor
that uses light emitting diodes for back lighting which is why the quality
on screen is so good.
Just looking at the two images we can see a huge improvement through
the years; the impact of these newer monitors is that designing graphics
on screen has become easier because some monitors can be touch screen
which means that graphics can be directly drawn on; the monitors are also
Tablets have actually being around for longer than you might expect; the
first tablet to ever be manufactured was actually by Microsoft back in
2000. They released an upgraded version in 2002 but the real era of
tablets started in 2010 when Apple released their first ever tablet.
Printers as other types of hardware have also come a long way from
where they started as they have been around for more than sixty years.
The first ever printer was the line printer which printed one line at a time
which means if you needed to print twenty pages for example then the
printer would need to complete its process twenty times to print the entire
documents and it would also take a while as printers were slow back in the
day. Below are two examples of line printers; the one on the left is the
older line printer which printed only one line at a time, on the other hand
the one on the right is also a line printer but a much faster, newer and
more improved version which can print up to 2500 lines per minute which
means a lot of work being printed in a minute. The newer more improved
line printers have enabled us to design graphics on computers and then
print them at very high speeds which helped designers design better
graphics on software like 2D Design. These types of software are better
than hand drawings because if a mistake is made during the creation of
the graphic then the user can simply just erase the mistake within
seconds. Therefore better technology and printers have inspired us to
design graphics on computers since it is much easier
and can also be done
more effectively.
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