Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics

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