Pixel. The story of one dot
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Pixels are all around us - on smartphone and computer screens, on billboards and electronic watch displays. From naive pixel art to mind-blowing 8K renderings, most of what we see is made of pixels. We rarely think about them, and yet pixels hold the unexpected beauty of computing and serve as the foundation of our virtual everyday life.The author of this book knows pixels like no one else. Alvy Ray Smith is one of the founders of modern animation, co-founder of Pixar and the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm. Devoting more than 50 years to working with digital images, Smith has written a comprehensive and fascinating biography of them, with equal space for reflections on art history, technology and business. "Pixel" takes you from Fourier's discoveries at the dawn of the French Revolution, the first computers, pixels and hackers, to the creation of Toy Story and Ice Age, Steve Jobs' role in the fate of Pixar and advances in VR and neural networks. Individuum print, our principle is only real stories. We publish books written in the first person by competent people with an interesting biography: it can be a doctor, a chef, a journalist, a prisoner or an anthropologist - the main thing is that their point of view helps to rethink things that are considered immutable.
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