The importance and futility of device independence in computer graphics
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Device independence in computer graphics refers to software that supports all graphics hardware devices. The economic reasons why device independence must be considered mandatory are reviewed in this paper. The ultimate futility of straightforward device independence, because of the widely differing characteristics of different devices, leads to a need for software that adapts intelligently to these characteristics---that has device intelligence. For good results we need not merely technical device intelligence, but also sensitivity to different applications. I coin the phrase layout intelligence for software that thus adapts the graph to the situation and show several examples.
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June 1982
857 pages
ISBN:088283035X
DOI:10.1145/1500774
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Published: 07 June 1982
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