| ACM | Association for Computing Machinery |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| ANSI X3H3 | ANSI Computer Graphics Working Group |
| ASF | Aspect Source Flag |
| BSI | British Standards Institution |
| CGI | Computer Graphics Interface techniques for dialogues with graphical devices |
| CGM | Computer Graphics Metafile for transfer and storage of picture description information |
| DC | Device Coordinates |
| DIN | Deutsches Institute fur Normung, the West German Standards Organization |
| DIN UA5.9 | DIN Computer Graphics Working Group |
| DIS | Draft International Standard |
| DP | Draft Proposal |
| GDP | Generalized Drawing Primitive |
| GINO | Graphical Input/Output (graphics package) |
| GKS | Graphical Kernel System |
| GKSM | GKS Metafile |
| GPGS | General Purpose Graphic System |
| GSPC | Graphic Standards Planning Committee |
| IDIGS | Interactive Device Independent Graphic System |
| IFIP | International Federation for Information Processing |
| IFIP WG5.2 | IFIP CAD/CAM Working Group |
| IS | International Standard |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISO/TC97/SC5 | Programming Languages Subcommittee of ISO (until 1984) |
| ISO/TC97/SC21 | Open Systems Subcommittee of ISO (since 1985) |
| ISO/TC97/SC5/WG2 | Computer Graphics Working Group of ISO (until 1984) |
| ISO/TC97/SC21/WG2 | Computer Graphics Working Group of ISO (since 1985) |
| NDC | Normalized Device Coordinates |
| NWI | New Work Item |
| PHIGS | Programmers' Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System |
| SC5 | Contraction of ISO/TC97/SC5 |
| SC21 | Contraction of ISO/TC97/SC21 |
| SIGGRAPH | ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics |
| WC | World Coordinates |
| WDSS | Workstation Dependent Segment Storage |
| WG2 | Contraction of ISO/TC97/SC5/WG2 (until 1984) Contraction of ISO/TC97/SC21/WG2 (since 1985) |
| WISS | Workstation Independent Segment Storage |
| X3H3 | Contraction of ANSI X3H3 |
