Many of us wonder what the point of a graphics card or Graphics Processing System (GPU) in our computers is. Few people think it’s only for those who play games. But having a graphics card is not just ...

Learn how to choose the best GPU for your PC upgrade. Compare gaming graphics cards, performance benchmarks, and ...

Computer graphics today can produce amazingly photorealistic images. Many motives, however, require very long computation times. Researchers have now developed a process, by means of which granular ...

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...

Combining art, science, engineering, and the psychology of human perception and interaction, computer graphics involves the creation and manipulation of visual content used in applications ranging ...

Caustic Graphics Inc. (San Francisco, Calif.) is a startup company that claims to have made a breakthrough in the hardware acceleration of ray-traced graphics. Caustic claims a 20 times speedup for ...

Ivan Sutherland, widely considered to be the father of computer graphics, was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology by the Inamori Foundation on Friday for his contributions to the field.

Computer scientists unveiled a new software modeling program that uses sophisticated geometric matching and machine learning to mimic humans' perception of style, giving users powerful new tools to ...

Creating realistic computer graphics for video games, extended reality, and scientific visualization tools have remained one of the challenges in the graphic development industry. Now, scientists at ...