The term computer graphics has been used in a broad sense to describe "almost everything on computers that is not text or sound. Typically, the term computer graphics refers to several different things:
- The representation and manipulation of image data by a computer.
- The various technologies used to create and manipulate images.
- The images so produced, and
- The sub-field of computer science which studies methods for digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content, see study of computer graphics.