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Edwin Catmull
Edwin Catmull | |
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.jpg) Catmull in 2015 | |
| Born | Edwin Earl Catmull March 31, 1945 |
| Alma mater | University of Utah (B.S. Physics and Computer Science; Ph.D. Computer Science) |
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| Spouse | Susan Anderson |
| Children | 3 |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
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| Thesis | A Subdivision Algorithm for Computer Display of Curved Surfaces (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert E. Stephenson[1] |
Edwin Earl Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist and animator who served as the co-founder of Pixar and the President of Walt Disney Animation Studios.[3][4][5] He has been honored for his contributions to 3D computer graphics, including the 2019 ACM Turing Award.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
catmullphdwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Catmull, E.; Clark, J. (1978). "Recursively generated B-spline surfaces on arbitrary topological meshes" (PDF). Computer-Aided Design. 10 (6): 350. doi:10.1016/0010-4485(78)90110-0. S2CID 121149868.
- ^ Cook, R. L.; Carpenter, L.; Catmull, E. (1987). "The Reyes image rendering architecture" (PDF). ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 21 (4): 95–102. doi:10.1145/37402.37414. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
- ^ Price, David P. T. (2009). The Pixar Touch (Vintage). London: Vintage. ISBN 978-0-307-27829-6.
- ^ Michael Rubin, Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution (2005), ISBN 0-937404-67-5
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