A Biography of the Pixel Audiobook Libro.fm

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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

Smiths story of the pixels 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 visiblethat 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