Classification

2D / 3D
Photorealistic / Non-photorealistic
Scientific / arts/ entertainment

Image  synthesis

Image  analysis

GUI Image search /  retrieval

Image processing

Photorealistic CG : producing images that look real

• Special effects: cinema industry, music, publicity
• Major employment market in CG
• Reduce the production costs and augmenting the reality presented in a clip
• A popular application
• Examples: Star Wars, Star Trek, The Lord of the Rings, Spiderman, etc.
• Music: video clips
• Advertisement
• Games: 3D games
• Virtual reality
• Traditionally, the user is fully immersed in an artificial, 3D world that is completely generated by a computer.
• Shared Virtual Environments - users at different locations meet in the same virtual world
• Applications: games, education / training, medicine
• Police : aging a photo of a missing person, modifying the facial characteristics (hair cut and color, facial hair, etc.)

Scientific visualization:

• Translating scientific data into images to provide a better understanding of the structure of the data or of the models.
• Requirements: fats, real-time graphics, interactivity.
• Applications: science, business, medicine.

CAD: architecture, industry

Cartoons

Games

Decoration

Computer art

• Scanner - 3D scanning
• Digital camera
• Mouse - light pen - trackball - notepad
• Touch panel / screen

• Screen - 3D display
• Printer - Plotter - 3D printing
• Projector
• A/V

• Stereo glasses + earphones / Helmet
• Glove
• Touch (gravity and surface properties)