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@theodore-kim.bsky.social

Professor of Computer Science and American Studies @ Yale https://www.tkim.graphics

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Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Fourth Edition

Technical Reading, Week 3: "Transformation Matrices" in Marschner and Shirley

www.cs.cornell.edu/~srm/fcg4/

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Project MUSE -- Verification required!

STS Reading, Week 3: "All but War Is Simulation: The Military-Entertainment Complex" by Tim Lenoir

muse.jhu.edu/article/8204...

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Yes! Just requested it from our library =)

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Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics How computer graphics transformed the computer from a calculating machine into an interactive medium, as seen through the histories of five technical objec

STS Reading, Week 2: "Culling Vision: Hidden Surface Algorithms and The Problem of Visibility", Chapter 1 of "Image Objects" by @jacobgaboury.bsky.social

direct.mit.edu/books/monogr...

23.01.2026 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Fourth Edition

Technical Reading, Week 2: "Linear Algebra" and "Viewing Transformations" in Marschner and Shirley

www.cs.cornell.edu/~srm/fcg4/

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Less fun: the advisor who pointed it out was Max Born, who had to flee to the UK eight years later when he was one of the first professors to be blacklisted by the Nazis. Heisenberg then went on the lead Hitler's atomic weapons program.

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The *opposite* is happening in Minneapolis. People are taking to the streets to protect their neighbors. It matters a lot. 2/2

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Hitler's American Model How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany

Reading β€œHitler’s American Model.” It’s striking that the Nazis passed the anti-semitic 1935 Nuremberg Laws against a backdrop of nationwide β€œradical street violence” against Jews. They were legalizing what was already happening in the streets. 1/2

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Infrastructures of abstraction: how computer science education produces anti-political subjects: Digital Creativity: Vol 30 , No 4 - Get Access

STS Reading, Week 1: "Infrastructures of abstraction: how computer science education produces anti-political subjects" by @jmalazita.bsky.social and Resetar

www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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A Characterization of Ten Hidden-Surface Algorithms | ACM Computing Surveys

Technical Reading, Week 1: "A Characterization of Ten Hidden-Surface Algorithms" by Sutherland, Sproull and Schumacker.

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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I am teaching a Computer Graphics class this semester where I am going to pair technical readings with STS-type readings. The students are evaluated on both.

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Hello. I'm back on the socials after writing a book for the last year and a half.

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