Part EVolume 2Chapters 21–22

Seeing and Showing

One key press traced from your finger to the light in your eye, and how the picture is computed.

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Part E chapters

You will be able to follow one key press, the letter A, from your fingertip to the light entering your eye, without a single gap in the story.

You will be able to explain why a graphics chip is built differently from a processor, and what "throughput" buys that "speed" does not.