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    Applications called "Jim Blinn's Corner". He wrote a total of 83 columns, most of which were reprinted in these books: Blinn, James F.: Jim Blinn's Corner: Dirty...
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  • The Blinn–Phong reflection model, also called the modified Phong reflection model, is a modification developed by Jim Blinn to the Phong reflection model...
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  • Ivan Sutherland, Holzman hired a graduate student from Utah named Jim Blinn. Blinn had worked with imaging techniques at Utah, and developed them into...
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    this. The real teapot is 33% taller (ratio 4:3) than the computer model. Jim Blinn stated that he scaled the model on the vertical axis during a demo in...
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    Gouraud, Jim Blinn and Bui Tuong Phong contributed to the foundations of shading in CGI via the development of the Gouraud shading and Blinn–Phong shading...
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    decimation and interpolation of 2-dimensional image data. According to Jim Blinn, the Lanczos kernel (with a = 3) "keeps low frequencies and rejects high...
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  • Blinn College Clara Blinn (1847 – 1868), American settler Edmund Blinn of Edmund Blinn House Genevieve Blinn Canadian actress George Blinn Francis (August...
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    time, and likely brought the algorithm to 3dfx Interactive circa 1994. Jim Blinn demonstrated a simple approximation of the inverse square root in a 1997...
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    for sculpting. The technique for rendering metaballs was invented by Jim Blinn in the early 1980s to model atom interactions for Carl Sagan's 1980 TV...
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    apparent detail. Some shading techniques include: Bump mapping: Invented by Jim Blinn, a normal-perturbation technique used to simulate wrinkled surfaces. Cel...
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  • Portrait Voyager team Stamatios Krimigis Carolyn Porco Raymond Heacock Jim Blinn Larry Soderblom Edward C. Stone Timothy Ferris Related Gravity assist...
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  • eight hours of computer animation created by computer graphics pioneer Jim Blinn along with assistants Sylvie Rueff and Tom Brown at the Jet Propulsion...
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    with quickly re-rendering scenes Arthur Appel James Arvo Brian A. Barsky Jim Blinn Jack E. Bresenham Loren Carpenter Edwin Catmull James H. Clark Robert...
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    X, Y, and Z coordinates, respectively, of the surface normal. In 1978 Jim Blinn described how the normals of a surface could be perturbed to make geometrically...
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  • were watching computer animation", wrote Price. Afterward, Lasseter saw Jim Blinn, a longtime professional colleague, approaching him, obviously readying...
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  • Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark, Tableau co-founder and Turing laureate Pat Hanrahan, Microsoft graphics fellow Jim Blinn, Thad Beier, Oscar and Bafta...
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    Projections”, ten years after environment mapping was first put forward by Jim Blinn and Martin Newell. However, hardware limitations on the ability to access...
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  • alumni include Jim Blinn; Mark W. Fuller, CEO of WET Design; Andrea Russell, Vice President of the International Society of Electrochemistry; Jim Clark, founder...
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  • Edwin Catmull, James H. Clark, John Warnock, Alan Ashton, Frank Crow, Jim Blinn, Bui Tuong Phong, Gary Hodgman, and Henri Gouraud. Evans was a member...
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    NYIT until 1979 and then briefly at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with Jim Blinn on the Carl Sagan Cosmos: A Personal Voyage television series.[citation...
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    animation pioneers Alvy Ray Smith, David DiFrancesco, Ralph Guggenheim, Jim Blinn, and Jim Clark—came from the NYIT lab. (In 1986, that computer-graphics group...
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    Zeeshan Jawed Shah, filmmaker Ralph Guggenheim, video graphics designer Jim Blinn, computer scientist known for his work as a computer graphics expert at...
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  • Newell was influenced by the computer animations of John Whitney and Jim Blinn, and early 1980s arcade games such as Pac-Man, Tempest, Centipede and...
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  • - harp Bobby Strickland - flute, saxophone Peter Apfelbaum - clarinet Jim Blinn - trombone Mike Rose - trumpet Bobby Womack - lead vocals on "The Want...
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  • sponsored the construction of the Foonly F-1, the fastest PDP-10 ever made. Jim Blinn, Frank Crow, and others developed the company's rendering software TRANEW...
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  • areas with the stencil buffer. Jim Blinn first introduced the idea of normal mapping in a 1978 SIGGRAPH paper. Blinn pointed out that the earlier idea...
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  • around the same time, Sternbach collaborated with Charley Kohlhase and Jim Blinn at JPL on the Voyager 1 Jupiter flyby movie, creating textures for the...
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    1974, Henry Fuchs and Martin Newell in 1975, Frank Crow in 1976, Jim Blinn in 1978, Jim Kajiya in 1979, and many others). Additional graphics faculty hired...
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  • veteran, and test pilot; spent eleven years as a senior executive at NASA Jim Blinn, computer scientist who first became widely known for his work as a computer...
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    the first 8-bit shift register framebuffer technology, and at JPL with Jim Blinn working on Carl Sagan's Cosmos Series. His prototype film recorder resides...
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