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In this subfield of computer science, a box named for Cornell and a teapot named for the University of Utah are often used for testing. 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 (10[1])ray-tracing algorithms (10[1])to render 3D objects. NVIDIA makes devices named for this subfield that are used to mine cryptocurrency. “Cards” named (10[1])for this subfield contain GPUs. For 10 points, name this subfield of computer science that develops methods to create and manipulate visual content. ■END■ (10[1])

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