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Frederic Parke | |
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| Born | May 13, 1943 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Utah |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science physics |
| Institutions | University of Utah IBM |
Frederic Ira Parke is an American computer graphics researcher and academic. He did early work on animated computer renderings of human faces.
Parke graduated from the University of Utah with a BS degree in physics in 1965. He was then a graduate student of the University of Utah College of Engineering where he received his MS (1972) and PhD (1974) in computer science.
In 1972, in a project partially financed by DARPA, Parke made the first 3D animation of a representation of a human face, his wife's face. This animation used a wireframe geometry overlaid with Gouraud shading that produces approximate renderings of curved surfaces. The technique was invented by Parke's Utah colleague Henri Gouraud.[1][2]
- ^ Parke, Frederic (1972). "Computer generated animation of faces". Proceedings of the ACM annual conference on - ACM'72. Vol. 1. pp. 451–457. doi:10.1145/800193.569955. S2CID 30615560.
- ^ Parke, Frederic (1972). Computer generated animation of faces (Technical report). University of Utah. UTEC-CSs-72-120.