Pixel. The story of one point

Pixels surround us - on the screens of smartphones and computers, on advertising shields and displays of electronic watches. From naive pixel art to breathtaking 8K-raiders, most of what we see is made of pixels. We rarely think about them, and after all the pixels are hiding in themselves the unexpected beauty of computer calculations and serve as the foundation of our virtual everyday life.

The author of this book is familiar with pixels like no other. Elvie Ray Smith is one of the founders of modern animation, the co -founder of Pixar and the Lucasfilm computer graphics units. Having devoted more than 50 years to work with digital images, Smith wrote their exhaustive and fascinating biography, in which there is an equal place for reflection on the history of art, technology and business. Pixel will lead you from the discoveries of Fourier at the dawn of the French Revolution, the first computers, pixels and hackers until the creation of the "History of toys" and "The Ice Age", the role of Steve Jobs in the fate of the Pixar and progress in VR and neurosetates.