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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” (10[1])phenomena. (-5[1])Parallelized pipelines that may be named after this subfield typically contain a rasterization step before a shader. (10[4])Programs in this subfield (10[1]-5[1])use ray-tracing algorithms (10[1])to render (10[1])3D objects. NVIDIA makes devices named for this subfield that are used (10[1])to mine cryptocurrency. “Cards” named for this subfield contain (10[1])GPUs. (10[1])For 10 points, name this subfield of computer science that develops methods to create and manipulate visual content. ■END■ (0[1])

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