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Image objects : an archaeology of computer graphics / Jacob Gaboury.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaboury, Jacob, author.
- Series:
- The MIT Press
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Image processing--History.
- Image processing.
- Computer graphics--History.
- Computer graphics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations
- 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:
- Intro
- 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
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index
- Color Plates.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-36179-5
- 0-262-36180-9
- 9780262361798
- OCLC:
- 1255632984
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