A biography of the pixel / Alvy Ray Smith.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Smith, Alvy Ray, 1943- author.

Contributor:

Henning, Daniel, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer animation--History.

Computer animation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (20 hr., 58 min.))

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Old Saybrook : Tantor Media, 2022.

[Old Saybrook, Connecticut] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2022.

System Details:

audio file

Summary:

The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture in the world would be composed of pixels. In A Biography of the Pixel, Pixar cofounder Alvy Ray Smith argues that the pixel is the organizing principle of most modern media, and he presents a few simple but profound ideas that unify the dazzling varieties of digital image making. Smith's story of the pixel's development begins with Fourier waves, proceeds through Turing machines, and ends with the first digital movies from Pixar, DreamWorks, and Blue Sky. Today, almost all the pictures we encounter are digital. Smith explains, engagingly and accessibly, how pictures composed of invisible stuff become visible-that is, how digital pixels convert to analog display elements. Taking the special case of digital movies to represent all of Digital Light (his term for pictures constructed of pixels), and drawing on his decades of work in the field, Smith approaches his subject from multiple angles. A Biography of the Pixel is essential reading for anyone who has watched a video on a cell phone, played a videogame, or seen a movie.

Participant:

Narrator: Daniel Henning.

Notes:

Unabridged.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781666193336

166619333X

OCLC:

1313829245