Trick question for 2 points:

[Gary David Bouton]

Okay, who was it, in the 1970s, who wrote a thesis paper on backface culling and Z-buffer algorithms? In English, this paper helped technology in modeling to ignore polys in a scene where they are not visible from the camera's point of view, which really saves on rendering time, and Z-buffering is mean to speed up the depth part of the rendering process, and it is a verry processor-intensive process (a lot of us saw this with trueSpace v1).

The answer is that he's a guy you have heard of, he built an empire and is now retired, and he never did anything with modeling applications.


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[Gary David Bouton]

Okay, who was it, in the 1970s, who wrote a thesis paper on backface culling and Z-buffer algorithms? In English, this paper helped technology in modeling to ignore polys in a scene where they are not visible from the camera's point of view, which really saves on rendering time, and Z-buffering is mean to speed up the depth part of the rendering process, and it is a verry processor-intensive process (a lot of us saw this with trueSpace v1).

The answer is that he's a guy you have heard of, he built an empire and is now retired, and he never did anything with modeling applications.


Answer tomorrow unless someone gets here first [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]


My Best,

Gary David Bouton
Gary@GaryDavidBouton.com
Free education! The Writings Web site
and the updated GaryWorld Gallery is pretty okay, too.

[s.winders]

That sounds like Zorg,he lives just down the street from planet xyz 2333000456766555,its on the right on the way to alpha centauri,just follow the turn off....am I right? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]


Stu.

[Ross Macintosh]

I like the idea of getting two points but don't understand the trick part.

You would of course be refering to James H. Clark Ph.d, founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape. His friends call him Jim.

Regards, Ross

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[s.winders]

So its definitely not Zorg then?


Stu.

[Gary David Bouton]

Sorry folks, good guesses, but it was

John Warnock, former CEO and creator of Adobe Systems.

Strange he never went the way of designing modeling systems, but instead created a computer language called PostScript. The guy was definitely looking towards desktop publishing...

BTW, Clarke, James Blinn, Warnock, and just about everyone who is anyone with CGI is either a graduate or a professor at the University of Utah. At least, that's where the US keeps its brain trust.


Thanks for trying!


My Best,

Gary David Bouton
Gary@GaryDavidBouton.com
Free education! The Writings Web site
and the updated GaryWorld Gallery is pretty okay, too.

[Ross Macintosh]

Interesting. I don't know what Jim did his thesis on but he did write papers on on backface culling and Z-buffer algorithms. Maybe we should too - maybe it is a secret key to becoming a billionaire??

Regards, Ross

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[jens g.r. benthien]

Gary,

thanks a lot for the background info - to be honest, I wouldn't have had any idea to answer your questions, because I considered 3D apps just as tools for me. But your information made me curious to research for more...

jens

jens g.r. benthien
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