Volume 2 (1998), No. 1, 101–108 A Manual to Teach Computer Graphics by JAVA
Techniques of computer graphics are used in various flelds; education, business, science and so on. It is di‐cult to edit a conventional manual about the computer graphics related with texts and pictures. We developed a system to make students understand the complicated concepts of computer graphics through a screen aided by themanual. Thecomputernetworkisexpectedtocommunicatewithmanydistributed peoplebytexts,pictures,sounds,etc.throughtheWorldWideWeb(WWW)[2]. JAVA [5] is one of such utilities to help the virtual machine environment on WWW that can manage computer network accessibility. In order to teach computer graphics at the departmentofcomputersciences,alocalnetworkisappliedas similarasInternet.
This paper presents the story of a painting of the “Virgin of the Holy Hand”, which the people of Guayaquil were very devoted for four centuries, until 1902, when a major fire in the city reduced it to ashes. Around the image were generated stories, legends, devotions, etc. that the city lost in that fire. Despite this, we are currently trying to rescue the history of the image, as discussed in this article of a more historical point of view, which makes use of Spanish and American sources. This is a historical study, chronologically exposed. After a brief introduction, the history of the image is analyzed from its creation in the sixteenth century to its disappearance in 1902, and the efforts made to rescue it in the last century. The paper ends with a brief conclusion.