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

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