
Image Objects
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Content
- 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
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index
- Color Plates
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