Loren Carpenter
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American computer graphics researcher
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Loren Carpenter's Degrees
- Bachelors Mathematics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Mathematics University of California, Berkeley
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Why Is Loren Carpenter Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Loren C. Carpenter is a computer graphics researcher and developer. Biography He was a co-founder and chief scientist of Pixar Animation Studios. He is the inventor of the Reyes rendering algorithm and is one of the authors of the PhotoRealistic RenderMan software which implements Reyes and renders all of Pixar's movies. Following Disney's acquisition of Pixar, Carpenter became a senior research scientist at Disney Research. He retired in early 2014.
Loren Carpenter's Published Works
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- Volume rendering (1988) (1096)
- Distributed ray tracing (1984) (964)
- Computer rendering of stochastic models (1982) (759)
- The A -buffer, an antialiased hidden surface method (1984) (490)
- The Reyes image rendering architecture (1987) (489)
- Distributed ray tracing (1998) (273)
- Scan line methods for displaying parametrically defined surfaces (1988) (205)
- Computer rendering of stochastic models (1998) (141)
- Volume rendering (1998) (92)
- A generalized scan line algorithm for the computer display of parametrically defined surfaces (1979) (76)
- Computer rendering of fractal curves and surfaces (1980) (73)
- Software design validation tool (1975) (12)
- Technical correspondence: comment on computer rendering of fractal stochastic models. author's reply (1982) (6)
- Computer rendering of fractal curves and surfaces Editorial Note: Page(s) are missing from this article's PDF file. We are attempting to locate an issue to correct (1980) (5)
- Graphics in the large: is bigger better? (2002) (1)
- A-command, multiple-data stream (SIMD) computer system (1986) (0)
- The Influence of Light upon the Spatial Perception of Image (1998) (0)
- Bloopers, outtakes, and horror stories of SIGGRAPH films (1989) (0)
- Method and apparatus for generating an electronic video image signal (1986) (0)
- Method for producing a two-dimensional display representing a three-dimensional data (1987) (0)
- Tools for interpretation of multispectral data (1990) (0)
- A method and device for imaging of volume data (1987) (0)
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