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I’m sure you all have heard the acronyms “C.G.I.” thrown about in one context or another. It stands for several things, but generally only two come to mind: Common Gateway Interface & Computer Generated Imagery. CGI to me always seems to represent Common Gateway Interface, mainly because in web development you encounter the letters CGI way more often than you would working with computer graphics packages. For instance, your cgi-bin directory at the base of most web servers. I’m not going to delve into the many definitions CGI can have or talk about which definition is more deserving of these three letters. No, I’m simply going to state that CGI should from now on only represent Common Gateway Interface and Computer Generated Imagery should be changed to Computer Generated Visuals.

Help me push the renaming to CGV and we will never have to hear “whoa sweet CGI” at the movie theaters again.

If you’d like more information about the two definitions of CGI, please visit the following links:

Common Gateway Interface

Computer Generated Imagery (soon to be CGV with any luck)