Alvy Ray Smith

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Alvy Ray Smith is affiliated with the following schools: New Mexico State University, New York University, Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Alvy Ray Smith III is an American computer scientist who co-founded Lucasfilm's Computer Division and Pixar, participating in the 1980s and 1990s expansion of computer animation into feature film. Education In 1965, Alvy Smith received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University . He created his first computer graphic in 1965 at NMSU. In 1970, he received a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, with a dissertation on cellular automata theory jointly supervised by Michael A. Arbib, Edward J. McCluskey, and Bernard Widrow.

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Color gamut transform pairs (1978) (1053)
Blue screen matting (1996) (479)
Plants, fractals, and formal languages (1984) (462)
Simple Computation-Universal Cellular Spaces (1971) (214)
3-D transformations of images in scanline order (1980) (204)
Real-Time Language Recognition by One-Dimensional Cellular Automata (1972) (204)
Two-Dimensional Formal Languages and Pattern Recognition by Cellular Automata (1971) (93)
Cellular Automata Complexity Trade-Offs (1971) (91)
Planar 2-pass texture mapping and warping (1987) (74)
Cellular automata theory (1969) (60)
Digital Paint Systems: An Anecdotal and Historical Overview (2001) (52)
Cellular Automata and Formal Languages (1970) (52)
Alpha and the History of Digital Compositing (1995) (48)
A Pixel Is Not A Little Square , A Pixel Is Not A Little Square , A Pixel Is Not A Little Square ! ( And a Voxel is Not a Little Cube ) 1 Technical Memo 6 (1995) (36)
HWB - A More Intuitive Hue-Based Color Model (1996) (30)
Simple Computation-Universal Cellular Spaces and Self-Reproduction (1968) (20)
Digital Humans Wait in the Wings. (2000) (20)
Introduction to and Survey of Polyautomata Theory (1975) (18)
PAINT (1998) (12)
Introduction to and Survey of Cellular Automata or Polyautomata Theory1 (2001) (7)
General Shift-Register Sequences of Arbitrary Cycle Length (1971) (5)
The reality of simulated actors (2002) (5)
Incremental Rendering of Textures in Perspective (2000) (5)
What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been (2021) (5)
A Sprite Theory of Image Computing (2002) (4)
The Dawn of Digital Light (2016) (3)
A Biography of the Pixel (2021) (3)
Infinite Regular Hexagon Sequences on a Triangle (2000) (2)
Computer technology and the artistic process: how the computer industry changes the form and function of art (1994) (1)
The ’ s of Digital Media Convergence (1)
The Video Computer: Image Computing in the Studio (1987) (1)
Making Computer Graphics History Public: SIGGRAPH 2021 Retrospective Panel (2021) (0)
Software directions for scientific visualization (panel session) (1988) (0)
The alpha gamma delta's of Digital Media Convergence (1998) (0)
Gamma Correction Technical Memo 9 (2000) (0)
V Va ar ri ie et tie es s o of f D Di ig gi it ta al l Pain nt ti in ng g Technical Memo 8 (1995) (0)
Geometry vs imaging: extended abstract (1990) (0)
Bringing visualization to the user (1996) (0)
The Real Story of Pixar: How a Bad Hardware Company Turned Itself Into a Great Movie Studio (2021) (0)
His Just Deserts—A Review of Four Books (2014) (0)
NYIT Computer Graphics Lab Then and Now (2020) (0)
The Cameraless Movie (2011) (0)
Geometry And Imaging - Distinctions And Measures (1989) (0)
ig gi it ta al l P Pa ai in nt t S Sy ys st te em ms s Historical Overview Technical Memo 14 1 (1997) (0)
More From Moore's Law: The Journey to Toy Story and Implications for Radiology. (2022) (0)
Cellular Automata (2021) (0)
Software directions for scientific visualization (1988) (0)
Keynote Address: Bringing Visualization to the User (Abstract) (1996) (0)
FRACTALS , COMPUTERS AND DNA (2015) (0)
The adg ’ s of Digital Media Convergence (0)
I Im Ma Ag Ge E C Co Om Mp Po Os Si It Ti in Ng G F Fu Un Nd Da Am Me En Nt Ta Al Ls S the Basic Model (1995) (0)

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