Making and changing images with computers. William Fetter of Boeing coined the term in 1960.
Some criticism of computer graphics claims that it's too perfect.
Larry Cuba, Larry Cuba on Choreographing Form
It's essentially a verbose exploration of signed distance fields (SDF), which is a technique used in computer graphics to create shapes. It's basically a different way to render a shape than the traditional mesh and material pipeline.
Michael Kozlowski, Michael Kozlowski on Exploration as Practice