Re: [FRIAM] IEEE Milestone celebrating computer graphics history at U of Utah

[Edward Angel]

Sadly Frank most of them are younger than us except for Sutherland. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 28, 2023, at 7:47 AM, Frank Wimberly <wimber...@gmail.com> wrote:  Distinguished graybeards.  I got my PhD in 1978.  Am I as old as that guy?? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 8:05 AM Barry MacKichan <barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: Mount Olympus! Sent from my iPad On Mar 28, 2023, at 1:24 AM, Guerin, Stephen <stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:  Wow, what a gathering at Utah on Thurs and Friday. <image.png> Left to Right: Alvy Ray Smith, John Warnock, Henri Gouraud, Ed Catmull, Henry Fuchs, Martin Newell, Jim Blinn https://www.price.utah.edu/ieee-milestone-events#ieee-milestone Youtube recordings Thursday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUFp6sjKbkE Friday AM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzEaM6QAy-4 Friday PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui3R1Dlmsk0 List of Speakers James Blinn, Ph.D., 1978 — Created specular lighting models, bump mapping and environment mapping for surface textures in graphical images. Ed Catmull, Ph.D., 1974 — Pioneer in computer animation who co-developed RenderMan rendering software. Co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and winner of five Academy Awards. Jim Clark, Ph.D., 1974 — Rebuilt the head-mounted display and 3-D wand to see and interact with 3-D graphic spaces. Founder of Netscape and Silicon Graphics. Henry Fuchs, Ph.D., 1975 — Innovator in high-performance graphics hardware, 3-D medical imaging and head-mounted display and virtual environments. Henri Gouraud, Ph.D., 1971 — Created the Gouraud shading method for polygon smoothing—a simple rendering method that dramatically improved the appearance of 3-D objects. Alan Kay, Ph.D., 1969 — Envisioned the windowing graphical user interface at Xerox PARC, which led to the design of Apple MacIntosh and Windows computers. Martin Newell, Ph.D., 1975 — Developed procedural modeling for 3-D object rendering. Co-developed the Painter’s algorithm for surface rendering. Rodney Rougelot — Former president and chief executive officer of Salt Lake City-based Evans & Sutherland, which then developed military and aviation simulators with 3-D graphics. Robert A. Schumaker — An engineer with Evans & Sutherland who conceived a new architecture for rendering complex, high-quality 3-D images for its flight simulators. Alvy Ray Smith — Co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios. First Director of Computer Graphics for George Lucas’ Lucasfilm. Ivan Sutherland, U Computer Science Professor, 1968-1974 — Inventor of Sketchpad, the first interactive graphics program with geometric constraints. Co-founded Evans & Sutherland with David Evans. John Warnock, Ph.D., 1969 — Developed the Warnock recursive subdivision algorithm for hidden surface elimination. Co-founder of Adobe, which developed the Postscript language for desktop publishing and is now one of the largest software brands in the world. __ Stephen Guerin Harvard Earth and Planetary Sciences Visualization Research and Teaching Lab stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu mobile: (505) 577-5828 -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe   /   Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives:  5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/  1/2003 thru 6/2021  http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe   /   Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives:  5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/   1/2003 thru 6/2021  http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe   /   Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives:  5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/  1/2003 thru 6/2021  http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/

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