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Image objects : an archaeology of computer graphics / Jacob Gaboury.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaboury, Jacob, author.
- 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
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