- Loren Carpenter
Loren C. Carpenter (born 1947) is a
computer graphics researcher and developer. He is co-founder and chief scientist of Pixar Animation Studios. One of his many inventions is the A-buffer hidden surface algorithm.In
1980 when he was working at TheBoeing Company he presented atSIGGRAPH a two-minute animation showing a very complicated landscape called Vol Libre, then he was hired to work atLucasfilm 's Computer Division. He is also co-founder ofCinematrix , a very well known company among assistants to SIGGRAPH convention.Recently he also made improvements to the popular
Mersenne Twister random number generator.Loren is a grandnephew of Charles Schmidt, the creator of Sgt. Pat of
Radio Patrol , a nationally syndicated police comic strip which ran in the '30s and '40s.Education
*B.S.in Mathematics from the
University of Washington in 1974.
*M.S from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in1976 .Awards
*
1985 ,ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award.
* 1992, Scientific and Technical Academy Award (Plaque) for his contributions to the motion picture industry through the invention and development of the RenderMan software.
*1994 , Distinction by the Prix Ars Electronica jury for his entry "Kinoetic Evolution" in the category Interactive Art.
* 1995, Fellow of theAssociation for Computing Machinery .
* 2000, Academy Award of Merit (Statuette).References
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Robert L. Cook ., Loren Carpenter, andEdwin Catmull . "The Reyes image rendering architecture." "Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings)", pp. 95–102.External links
* [http://www.cinematrix.com/ Cinematrix]
* [http://www.kk.org/outofcontrol/ch2-b.html A chapter] from Kevin Kelly's book "" about Carpenter's Vol Libre animation.
* [http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/VERSIONS/C-LANG/cpp_sse2.zip Mersenne Twister implementation] Based on Intel SSE2 instructions.
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