Living Legends in Computing

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  1. 1.
    Steve Jobs

  2. 2.
    Steve Wozniak

  3. 3.
    Larry Wall

  4. 4.
    Donald Ervin Knuth

  5. 5.
    Bill Gates

  6. 6.
    Tim Berners-Lee

  7. 7.
    Douglas Engelbart

  8. 8.
    Linus Benedict Torvalds

  9. 9.
    John Holland

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Created by Larry Gilbert on Jun 04, 2006.
 

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Developing_Intellect

You forgot Ed Catmull — 5 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.

Jun 15, 02:01PM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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