What is Computer-generated imagery?
'''Computer-generated imagery''' ('''CGI''') is using [[computer graphics]], especially in [[movie]]s. These images are used for [[special effects]], [[simulation]], and [[commercial]]s, amongst others. Sometimes the technology is used to produce a static background, which is then merged into the image; at other times it is used to produce [[animation]]s in 2D or 3D. In its broadest sense, a computer- generated image (CGI) can be defined as any image that is created with the use of a computer- based processor or program. Because computers are widely used, both in image generating and in [[image processing]], these images are pervasive- from billboard advertisements to film productions and [[photography]]. <gallery> File:FractalLandscape.jpg|An example of a computer-generated, natural looking, static [[fractal]] landscape File:Lone House.jpg|A computer generated image of a house File:PaulusTarsus LKANRW.jpg|A [[facial composite]] of [[Saint Paul]], created by the police in [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], based on historical sources. File:Cro-Magnon man rendered.jpg|What a [[Cro-magnon]] man might have looked like. This is based on the [[skull]]s that were found. </gallery> {{tech-stub}} [[Category:Computer graphics]]