Image objects : an archaeology of computer graphics / Jacob Gaboury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaboury, Jacob, author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Image processing--History.

Image processing.

Computer graphics--History.

Computer graphics.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 295 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Though an analysis of five objects that have shaped the history of computer graphics, this book explores what historical technologies shaped and limited the development of simulated images"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Culling Vision: Hidden Surface Algorithms and the Problem of Visibility

2. Random-Access Images: Interfacing Memory and the History of the Computer Screen

3. Model Objects: The Utah Teapot as Standard and Icon

4. Object Paradigms: On the Origins of Object Orientation

5. Procedure Crystallized: The Graphics Processing Unit and the Rise of Computer Graphics.

Notes:

Edited version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2014, under the title: Image objects : an archaeology of 3D computer graphics, 1965-1979.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780262045032

0262045036

OCLC:

1178867599

Publisher Number:

99988112285