J. Turner Whitted | Academic Influence

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J. Turner Whitted

Computer Science

#741

World Rank

#763

Historical Rank

#401

USA Rank

Computer Graphics

#15

World Rank

#17

Historical Rank

#12

USA Rank

Database

#8225

World Rank

#8580

Historical Rank

#1077

USA Rank

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J. Turner Whitted's Degrees

PhD Computer Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Masters Computer Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelors Mathematics University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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According to Wikipedia, John Turner Whitted is an electrical engineer and computer scientist who introduced recursive ray tracing to the computer graphics community with his 1979 paper "An improved illumination model for shaded display". His algorithm proved to be a practical method of simulating global illumination, inspired many variations, and is in wide use today. Simple recursive implementations of ray tracing are still occasionally referred to as Whitted-style ray tracing.

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J. Turner Whitted's Published Works

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An improved illumination model for shaded display (1980) (2124)
The Use of Points as a Display Primitive (2000) (481)
A 3-dimensional representation for fast rendering of complex scenes (1980) (435)
Scan line methods for displaying parametrically defined surfaces (1988) (205)
Designing a PC Game Engine (1998) (134)
Measuring the Perception of Visual Realism in Images (2001) (93)
Displaced Filtering for Patterned Displays (2000) (92)
Anti-aliased line drawing using brush extrusion (1983) (82)
From Motion to Photons in 80 Microseconds: Towards Minimal Latency for Virtual and Augmented Reality (2016) (77)
An improved illumination model for shaded display (1998) (75)
An improved illumination model for shaded display (1979) (72)
Building block shaders (1990) (67)
20.4: Displaced Filtering for Patterned Displays (2000) (55)
Minimizing latency for augmented reality displays: Frames considered harmful (2014) (52)
An improved illumination model for shaded display (1979) (51)
A Software Testbed for the Development of 3D Raster Graphics Systems (1982) (43)
A software test-bed for the development of 3-D raster graphics systems (1981) (38)
Managing geometric complexity with enhanced procedural models (1986) (36)
A scan line algorithm for computer display of curved surfaces (1978) (29)
Exploiting Classes in Modeling and Display Software (1986) (23)
Scene-adaptive high dynamic range display for low latency augmented reality (2017) (18)
Some Recent Advances in Computer Graphics (1982) (17)
A scan line algorithm for computer display of curved surfaces (1978) (16)
Fully procedural graphics (2005) (13)
Accommodating memory latency in a low-cost rasterizer (1997) (13)
Processing Requirements for Hidden Surface Elimination and Realistic Shading (1982) (9)
Overview of IBR: software and hardware issues (2000) (5)
A comprehensive shading model (1988) (4)
8‐3: Hybrid Modulation for Near Zero Display Latency (2016) (4)
Computer Graphics In Entertainment (1998) (4)
Embedded function composition (2009) (4)
Steerable application-adaptive near eye displays (2018) (3)
Fiction 2000: technology, tradition, and the essence of story (1999) (3)
Draw on the wall (1998) (3)
Hybrid Modulation for Near Zero Display Latency (2016) (2)
Origins of Global Illumination (2020) (2)
Personal image generators (1998) (1)
Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 1997, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 3-8, 1997 (1997) (1)
Implementation and Evaluation of a 50 kHz, $28\mu\mathrm{s}$ Motion-to-Pose Latency Head Tracking Instrument (2019) (1)
What can we learn by benchmarking graphics systems? (panel session) (1988) (1)
Visualization Surfaces (2012) (0)
Computer Image Synthesis (1984) (0)
What can we learn by benchmarking graphics systems? (1988) (0)
Visual / human-centered computing spring 2014 seminar series (2014) (0)
Computer graphics achievement award: Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (1997) (0)
Evolution of 3D Graphics Architectures (1991) (0)
Videotape proceedings of the 24th international conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (Videotape) (1997) (0)
Devices for display and interaction (2001) (0)
Snow crashing the diamond age: mobile devices meet sensor networks (2005) (0)
Guest Editors' Introduction (1998) (0)
Architectures for 3D graphics display hardware (1994) (0)
Steven A. Coons award for outstanding creative contributions to computer graphics: James Foley (1997) (0)
Draw on the wall - Capstone Address (1998) (0)

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