The Java 2D™ API enhances the graphics, text, and imaging capabilities of the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT), enabling the development of richer user interfaces and new types of Java™ applications. Along with these richer graphics, font, and image APIs, the Java 2D API supports enhanced color definition and composition, hit detection on arbitrary geometric shapes and text, and a uniform rendering model for printers and display devices. The Java 2D API also enables the creation of advanced graphics libraries, such as CAD-CAM libraries and graphics or imaging special effects libraries, as well as the creation of image and graphic file read/write filters.
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The term CAD is an abbreviation of Computer Aided Design and refers to the use of a wide range of computer-based tools used by engineers, architects and other design specialists. Computer Aided Design involves both software applications, ranging from 2-dimensional vector-based drafting tools through to highly sophisticated 3D modelling systems, and specialist hardware tools including ‘wide-format’ print systems.
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NASA Image2000 is an image processing software package available on multiple platforms, designed to bring high-end scientific image processing capabilities to the standard desktop computer. (See Minimum Specifications in Section 1.2 for limitations for Mac and Unix operating systems.) Developed to meet the needs of educators, NASA Image2000 supports the display, analysis and processing of satellite imagery.
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FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a more reliable way of transferring your files over the internet as opposed to attaching to emails. FTP is more secure, quicker, and your files are not “coded” or “mimed” as there is no need to rely on your email server. Follow the instructions below to FTP your files to Colortech Graphics and Printing.
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The Insider’s Guide to Windows Vista ARTICLE DATE: 12.20.06 By John Clyman Windows Vista is here at last. One of the largest software projects ever undertaken, Vista is indisputably a milestone—despite Microsoft’s having abandoned many of its most ambitious goals for the OS and not just for Microsoft but for the entire PC industry. Of course, Vista is not without its skeptics. PC makers say it will require more processing power, graphics capabilities, and memory than is typical of today’s mainstream machines. Software vendors complain that Vista’s vaunted security features are, in fact, locking them out.
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The eye-catching 12-inch PowerBook G4 is Apple s smallest notebook ever. Key Features 4.6 pounds. At just over an inch thick and a svelte 4.6 pounds,1 the new anodized aluminum design is so easy to carry, it will be your constant companion. PowerPC G4 processor. The most affordable PowerBook ever accelerates your favorite applications with the unmatched perform-ance of the PowerPC G4 with Velocity Engine. NVIDIA graphics. Now with the NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go, the 12-inch PowerBook makes graphics-intensive applications, the hottest 3D games, and DVD special effects all sizzle. Advanced wireless. With built-in antennas, the new PowerBook is ready for an AirPort Extreme Card for superfast wireless net-working.
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Introducing the new 17-inch PowerBook G4, with the largest display and thinnest design of any notebook computer. Key Features 17-inch widescreen. The stunning panoramic display with 1440-by-900-pixel resolution offers as much viewing area as a 19-inch CRT monitor. 1 inch thin. The gorgeous, ultrathin anodized aluminum design is unlike anything you”ve ever seen or held. Illuminated keyboard. A true ease-of-use breakthrough, the fiber-optic, backlit key- board makes it possible to work in low-light environments. Performance architecture.
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VTBook is a PC-Card graphics card for notebook computers: it connects through a CardBus compatible PC-Card slot. The goal of Village Tronic while designing VTBook was to create a small, affordable, reliable device that would empower notebook users by allowing them to connect big digital displays to their computers, as they were desktop systems. Modern notebooks feature impressive capabilities in terms of computing power, storage space, networking and so on, but they still lack in graphics expandability, especially in the number and size of supported displays.
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