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The Graphical Kernel System (GKS) was the first ISO standard for low-level computer graphics, introduced in 1977. Computer graphics are Graphics created by Computers and more generally the Representation and Manipulation of Pictorial Data Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays GKS provides a set of drawing features for two-dimensional vector graphics suitable for charting and similar duties. Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points lines, Curves and shapes or Polygon (s which are all based The calls are designed to be portable across different programming languages, graphics devices and hardware, so that applications written to use GKS will be readily portable to many platforms and devices. A programming language is an Artificial language that can be used to write programs which control the behavior of a machine particularly a Computer.

GKS was fairly common on computer workstations in the 1980s and early 1990s, and formed the basis of Digital Research's GSX and GEM products; the latter was common on the Atari ST and was occasionally seen on PCs particularly in conjunction with Ventura Publisher. A workstation, such as a Unix workstation, RISC workstation or Engineering workstation, is a high-end Microcomputer Digital Research Inc (aka DR or DRI; originally Intergalactic Digital Research) was the company created by Dr GEM ( G raphical E nvironment M anager was a Windowing system created by Digital Research Inc GEM ( G raphical E nvironment M anager was a Windowing system created by Digital Research Inc The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s Ventura Publisher was the first popular Desktop publishing package for IBM PC compatible computers running DOS. It was little used outside these markets and is essentially obsolete today except insofar as it is the underlying API defining the Computer Graphics Metafile. Computer Graphics Metafile ( CGM) is a free and open International standard file format for 2D Vector graphics, Raster graphics A notable descendant of GKS was PHIGS. PHIGS ( Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System) is an API standard for rendering 3D Computer graphics, at one time considered to be the 3D

A main developer and promoter of the GKS was Professor José Luis Encarnação, formerly director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) in Darmstadt, Germany. The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies The Fraunhofer Society (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is a German research organization with 58 institutes spread throughout Germany each focusing on different fields of applied Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe.

GKS was ANSI standard ANSI X3. 124 and ISO standard ISO/IEC 7942. The language bindings are ISO standard ISO 8651. GKS-3D (Graphical Kernel System for Three Dimensions) functional definition is ISO standard ISO 8805 and the C language bindings are ISO 8806. tags please moot on the talk page first! --> In Computing, C is a general-purpose cross-platform block structured [1]

The functionality of GKS is wrapped up as a data model standard in ISO 10303-46. ISO 10303 is an ISO standard for the Computer -interpretable Representation and Exchange of Industrial product data.

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