Round 1: Tossup 8

In this subfield of computer science, a box named for Cornell and a teapot named for the University of Utah are often (10[1])used for testing. (10[1])Bui Tuong Phong (“bwee twung fung”) developed a model used in this subfield that models “ambient,” “diffuse,” and “specular” phenomena. Parallelized pipelines that may be named after this subfield typically contain a rasterization step before a shader. Programs in this subfield use ray-tracing (10[1])algorithms to render 3D objects. NVIDIA makes devices named for this subfield that are used to mine (-5[1])cryptocurrency. “Cards” named for this subfield contain GPUs. For 10 points, name this subfield of computer science that develops methods to create and manipulate visual content. (10[1])■END■

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