The Navigable Image: Vermeer, Melville, and the Maritime Coordinates of Computer Graphics.
Before graphics addressed pixels, they addressed oceans. This essay offers a genealogy of computable graphics in maritime navigation and visual media including sea charts, ephemerides, baroque painting, literature, and video games. From Johannes Vermeer's The Geographer to Herman Melville's whale ch...
| Publicado en: | Critical Inquiry Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 99 - 131 |
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Autumn2025
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