Tossup
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 ray-tracing algorithms to render 3D objects. NVIDIA makes devices named for this subfield that are used to mine 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. ■END■
ANSWER: computer graphics [accept graphics pipelines; accept graphics cards; accept graphics processing unit; prompt on GPU until read]
<Brown A, Other Science>
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Buzzes
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | TUH | Conv. % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | 5 | 100% | 60% | 89.40 |
| UK (South) | UK | 8 | 88% | 38% | 52.29 |
| Northern California | US | 4 | 75% | 25% | 49.00 |
| Southern California | US | 7 | 100% | 14% | 34.14 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | 4 | 100% | 25% | 54.00 |
| Florida | US | 4 | 100% | 0% | 80.00 |
| Great Lakes | US | 10 | 90% | 50% | 71.78 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | 9 | 78% | 33% | 58.71 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | 11 | 100% | 9% | 43.64 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | 1 | 100% | 100% | 108.00 |
| Midwest | US | 9 | 100% | 44% | 73.44 |
| North | US | 4 | 100% | 25% | 65.00 |
| Northeast | US | 2 | 50% | 100% | 108.00 |
| Pacific | US | 8 | 100% | 13% | 61.13 |
| Southeast | US | 12 | 92% | 17% | 65.64 |
| Upstate NY | US | 5 | 100% | 40% | 70.80 |