Living Legends in Computing

There are many different kinds of computing and there are some pioneers of graphics display that I’m surprised to see missing. On the other hand this is a very short list. But I would think that at least the following should be added to it:

Ed Catmull of Pixar. Invented texture-mapping, the alpha channel the Z buffer and brought many other important innovations in graphics to fruition, including anti-aliasing an motion blur.

Another pioneer in this field is James Blinn, who was instrumental in describing how light reacted with smooth surfaces, a very fundamental problem in 3D graphics.

These are two of the brightest lights of the living ledgends of graphics computing.