Edwin Catmull

Edwin Catmull
Catmull in 2015
Born
Edwin Earl Catmull

(1945-03-31) March 31, 1945 (age 80)
EducationUniversity of Utah (BS, MS, PhD)
Known for
SpouseSusan Anderson
Children3
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Institutions
ThesisA Subdivision Algorithm for Computer Display of Curved Surfaces (1974)
Doctoral advisorRobert E. Stephenson[1]

Edwin Earl Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist and animator who served as the co-founder of Pixar and the President of Walt Disney Animation Studios.[3][4][5] He has been honored for his contributions to 3D computer graphics, including the 2019 ACM Turing Award.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference catmullphd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Catmull, E.; Clark, J. (1978). "Recursively generated B-spline surfaces on arbitrary topological meshes" (PDF). Computer-Aided Design. 10 (6): 350. doi:10.1016/0010-4485(78)90110-0. S2CID 121149868.
  3. ^ Cook, R. L.; Carpenter, L.; Catmull, E. (1987). "The Reyes image rendering architecture" (PDF). ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 21 (4): 95–102. doi:10.1145/37402.37414. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  4. ^ Price, David P. T. (2009). The Pixar Touch (Vintage). London: Vintage. ISBN 978-0-307-27829-6.
  5. ^ Michael Rubin, Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution (2005), ISBN 0-937404-67-5

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