Living Legends in Computing
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Created by Larry Gilbert on Jun 04, 2006.
Developing_Intellect
Houston
You forgot Ed Catmull — 3 years ago
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.
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