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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. (10[1])Bui Tuong Phong (-5[1])(“bwee twung fung”) developed (10[1])a model used in this subfield that models “ambient,” (10[1])“diffuse,” and “specular” phenomena. Parallelized pipelines that may be named after this subfield typically contain a rasterization step before a shader. (10[1])Programs in this subfield use ray-tracing algorithms (-5[1])to render 3D objects. NVIDIA (10[1]-5[1])makes devices named for this subfield that are used to mine cryptocurrency. “Cards” named for this (10[1])subfield contain GPUs. For 10 points, name this subfield of computer science that develops methods to create and manipulate visual content. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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