Pixel. The story of one point

"Pixels are all around us - on smartphone and computer screens, on billboards and digital watch displays. From naive pixel art to mind-blowing 8K renders, most of what we see is made of pixels. We rarely think about them, but pixels conceal the unexpected beauty of computing and serve as the foundation of our virtual everyday life. The author of this book knows pixels like no one else. Alvy Ray Smith is one of the founders of modern animation, co-founder of Pixar and the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm. Having dedicated more than 50 years to working with digital images, Smith has written an exhaustive and fascinating biography of them, in which there is equal space for reflections on the history of art, technology and business. "Pixel" takes you from Fourier's discoveries at the dawn of the French Revolution, the first computers, pixels and hackers to the creation of "Toy Story" and "Ice Age", the role of Steve Jobs in the fate of Pixar and progress in VR and neural networks."