Edwin Catmull

Edwin Catmull
Catmull in 2015
Born
Edwin Earl Catmull

(1945-03-31) March 31, 1945 (age 79)
Parkersburg, West Virginia, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Utah (B.S. Physics and Computer Science; Ph.D. Computer Science)
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