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ASSEMBLING REALITY: MYTHS OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS Giotto, the inventor of 3D This is how Frederick Hartt, the author of Art. A History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, a widely used textbook, describes the importance of Giotto di Bondone, "the first giant in the long history of Italian painting": "In contemporary Italian eyes the step from Cimabue to Giotto was immense in that weight and mass, light and inward extension were suddenly introduced in a direct and …

…en complete animations. While a hundred years ago the user of a Kodak camera was asked just to push a button, s/he still had the freedom to point the camera at anything. Now, "you push the button, we do the rest" is becoming "you push the button, we create your world." This is yet another way in which commercial and corporate imagination has a new potential to shape our own vision of synthetic reality.