graphics Graphics are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings, or other images. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Graphics) 180 297 10.5 3.7 11 40.7 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/sites/all/datacharts/hc/1179-chart-wp.html raster graphics In computer graphics, a raster graphics image or bitmap is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium. Raster images are stored in image files with varying formats. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Raster graphics) 1 1 0.1 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/sites/all/datacharts/hc/4070-chart-wp.html vector graphics Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics. Vector graphics formats are complementary to raster graphics, which is the representation of images as an array of pixels, as is typically used for the representation of photographic images. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Vector graphics) 10 23 0.6 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/sites/all/datacharts/hc/13904-chart-wp.html