Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics

✍ Scribed by Jacob Gaboury

Publisher: MIT Press
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 323
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

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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