Is computer graphics software?

[Anonymous]

I need some clearence here about some stuff. I am kinda arguing about that graphics is software, but for some reason some are arguing against me.

The whole thing started when I posted a thread about MS being the leading in graphics-research. There I stated that of course, graphics is software, graphics hardware (from the likes of ATI and Nvidia) are just the means to drive this gfx-software...

So...
I just wanted to clarify if I am correct with my statement that graphics is software... and if not, what is graphics? It is a bunch of code, and code is software...right?

 

[Captain Chickenpants]

I assume that you are restricting this to 3d graphics.

What you refer to as graphics is really a bunch of mathematical formulas and algorithms, which can be implemented either as software or hardware, or a mixture of the two (which is currently the case with modern graphics cards).

CC