Loren Carpenter
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Loren C. Carpenter (born 1947) is a computer graphics researcher and developer. He is co-founder and chief scientist of Pixar Animation Studios. One of his many inventions is the A-buffer hidden surface algorithm.
In 1980 when he was working at The Boeing Company he presented at SIGGRAPH a two-minute animation showing a very complicated landscape called Vol Libre, then he was hired to work at Lucasfilm's Computer Division. He is also co-founder of Cinematrix, a very well known company among assistants to SIGGRAPH convention.
Recently he also made improvements to the popular Mersenne Twister random number generator.
Loren is also a grandnephew of Charles Schmidt, the creator of Sgt. Pat of Radio Patrol, a nationally syndicated police comic strip which ran in the 30s and 40s.
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[edit] Education
- B.S.in Mathematics from the University of Washington in 1974.
- M.S from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in 1976.
[edit] Awards
- 1985, ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award.
- 1992, Scientific and Technical Academy Award (Plaque) for his contributions to the motion picture industry through the invention and development of the RenderMan software.
- 1994, Distinction by the Prix Ars Electronica jury for his entry Kinoetic Evolution in the category Interactive Art.
- 1995, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
- 2000, Academy Award of Merit (Statuette).
[edit] References
- Robert L. Cook., Loren Carpenter, and Edwin Catmull. "The Reyes image rendering architecture." Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings), pp. 95–102.
[edit] External links
- Cinematrix
- A chapter from Kevin Kelly's book Out of Control about Carpenter's Vol Libre animation.
- Mersenne Twister implementation Based on Intel SSE2 instructions.
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