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Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics

By Jacob Gaboury

Book information

Publisher
MIT Press
Year
2021
ISBN
0262045036, 9780262045032
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (33165800 bytes)
Pages
312\323
Time added
2021-08-25 13:40:36

Description

null Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Visible Outputs Object Simulation Other Places Image Objects 1. Culling Vision: Hidden Surface Algorithms and the Problem of Visibility Problem Solving Simulating Vision Computing Perspective Hidden Surface Problems Making the Present Absent 2. Random-Access Images: Interfacing Memory and the History of the Computer Screen Line Screen Grid Buffer Pixel RAM 3. Model Objects: The Utah Teapot as Standard and Icon Simulating Complexity Smooth Surfaces Model Experimentation Object qua Object World Building Standard Worlds 4. Object Paradigms: On the Origins of Object Orientation Orientation Monad Science NOMAD Science Trajectories Simulations PostScript Prints Anything 5. Procedure Crystallized: The Graphics Processing Unit and the Rise of Computer Graphics Specialization Iteration Miniaturization Recursion Parallelization Crystallization Coda: After Objects Notes Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Coda Bibliography Index Color Plates

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