Graphics vs. Gfx — What's the Difference?

Graphics (from Greek γραφικός graphikos, "belonging to drawing") are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in c manufacture, in typesetting and the graphic arts, and in educational and recreational software.

Abbreviation of graphics

(used with a sing. verb) The making of drawings in accordance with the rules of mathematics, as in engineering or architecture.

(used with a pl. verb) Calculations, as of structural stress, from such drawings.

(used with a sing. or pl. verb) See graphic arts.

(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The pictorial representation and manipulation of data, as used in computer-aided design and manufacture, in typesetting and the graphic arts, and in educational and recreational programs.

(used with a sing. verb) The process by which a computer displays data pictorially.

The making of architectural or design drawings.

The graphic arts.

(computing) The pictorial representation and manipulation of data; the process by which a computer displays data.

(computing) The art or visual representations displayed by a computer.

The art or the science of drawing; esp. of drawing according to mathematical rules, as in perspective, projection, and the like.

Photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication;

The drawings and photographs in the layout of a book