Dr ALVY RAY SMITH - CURRICULUM VITÆ
EDUCATION (see Honorary Doctorate)
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1967-1970 |
PhD, Stanford University. Dissertation: Cellular Automata Theory. Advisor: Michael A Arbib |
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1966 |
MS, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA |
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1961-1965 |
BSEE, New Mexico State University, with High Honors, Las Cruces NM |
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1949-1961 |
Graduate, Public School System, Clovis NM |
PROFESSIONAL
HISTORY (see
Bio)
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2000- |
Ars Longa |
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Founder and President. Digital photography. Scholarly genealogical studies. |
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1994-2000 |
Microsoft Corp |
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Graphics Fellow (Microsoft’s first). Articulated the Microsoft media creation vision, The Single Creative App, evangelized progressive digital TV, incorporated Altamira Composer concepts into Microsoft products Picture It, Image Composer, and PhotoDraw, and into Windows graphic subsystems, and wrote research papers. |
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1991-1994 |
Altamira Software Corp |
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Founder, President, and Board Member. Wrote product prototype for Altamira Composer, developed business plan, raised seed, second-round, and angel financing, hired personnel, helped develop product, plus all other aspects of a classic Silicon Valley startup. Sold Altamira to Microsoft in Sep 1994 |
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1986-1991 |
Pixar |
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Cofounder, Executive Vice President, and Board Member. Managed half of the company: computer software and hardware engineering, laser engineering, computer graphics research, computer graphics production; negotiated Disney CAPS deal. My partner, Ed Catmull, President, managed the other half: finance, sales, marketing, manufacturing, administration, personnel, support. Negotiated (with Ed Catmull) the Pixar spinoff from Lucasfilm and funding (by Steve Jobs) - see Pixar founding documents. |
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1980-1986 |
Lucasfilm Ltd |
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Computer Division (now part of Industrial Light & Magic division). Director of Computer Graphics Research. Managed all aspects of computer graphics for Lucasfilm: research and development, production, finance and personnel for computer graphics research and animation, equipment specification and purchase. Directed feature film animation. For clarity, other parts of the Computer Division were video editing, digital audio, and games. Made original approach (with Ed Catmull) to Lucasfilm |
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1979 |
California Institute of Technology (CalTech) |
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Consultant, Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series for the Public Broadcasting System |
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1975-1979 |
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) |
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Computer Graphics Laboratory. Senior Scientist |
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1974 |
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) |
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Computer Sciences Laboratory. Visiting Scientist |
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1974 |
University of California at Berkeley |
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Visiting Associate Professor |
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1969-1973 |
New York University |
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Associate Professor |
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1962-1965 |
New Mexico State University |
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Physical Sciences Laboratory, Electromagnetics Section. Junior Engineer |
HONORS (see
Awards)
| 2008 | Elected Trustee Emeritus, New England Historical Genealogical Society, Boston MA, 29 Jan 2008 |
| 2007 | Donald Lines Jacobus Award, American Society of Genealogists, Salt Lake City UT, Oct 2007 |
| 2006 | Elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, 10 Feb 2006. "For the development of digital imaging, compositing, and painting that have led to fundamental changes in the graphic arts and motion picture industries." Inducted 15 Oct 2006, Washington DC. |
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2004d |
Honorary lifetime membership, The Old Derby Historical Society, Derby CT, 22 Nov 2004 |
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2004c |
Inducted into the CRN Industry Hall of Fame, Computer Museum, Mountain View CA, 16 Nov 2004 |
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2004b |
2004 Award for Excellence, Genealogy and Family History, National Genealogical Society, Sacramento CA, May 2004 |
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2004a |
Grand prize, literary contest 2004 (co-winner with Raymond Gordon Dawes), Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Berlin CT, May 2004 |
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2001 |
Bromilow Lecturer, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM, Feb 2001 |
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1999 |
Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM, Dec 1999 |
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1998 |
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Scientific or Technical Awards. Winner of Technical Academy Award Plaque (with Tom Porter and Dick Shoup) for Digital Paint Systems as fundamental filmmaking technology. Beverly Hills CA, Feb 1998. The award is officially known as the Academy’s “Scientific and Engineering Award” |
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1997 |
Forsythe Lecturer, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, Mar 1997 |
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1996 |
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Scientific or Technical Awards. Winner of Technical Academy Award Plaque (with Ed Catmull, Tom Porter, and Tom Duff) for Digital Image Compositing advances in filmmaking (the invention of the alpha channel). Beverly Hills CA, Mar 1996. The award is officially known as the Academy’s “Scientific and Engineering Award” |
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1990 |
Computer Graphics Achievement Award (with Dr Richard G Shoup), SIGGRAPH 90, Dallas TX, Aug 1990. For “seminal contributions to Computer Paint Systems” |
COMPUTER GRAPHICS PUBLICATIONS
(see
Papers)
(SIGGRAPH =
Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics of the Association for Computing Machinery)
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2002 |
The Reality of Simulated Actors |
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Communications of the ACM, Vol 45, No 7, Jul 2001, 36-9 |
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2001 |
Digital Paint Systems: An Anecdotal and Historical Overview |
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IEEE Annals of Computing, Vol 23, No 2, Apr-Jun 2001, 4-30 (and cover) |
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2000c |
Digital Humans Wait in the Wings |
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Scientific American, Nov 2000, 72-78 |
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2000b |
Infinite Regular Hexagon Sequences on a Triangle |
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Experimental Mathematics, Vol 9, No 3, Nov 2000, 397-406 |
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2000a |
Man's Most Malleable [a poem] |
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Tools of Vision, by Neelon Crawford, exhibition catalog, photographic exhibit, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, Sep 2000 - Jan 2001 |
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1998c |
The Stuff of Dreams |
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Computer Graphics World, Jul 1998, 27-29 |
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1998b |
The adg’s of Digital Media Convergence |
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Proceedings Graphics Interface ’98 (18-20 Jun 1998, Vancouver, BC), Editors: W Davis, K Booth, and A Fournier, 51-56 |
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1998a |
George Lucas Discovers Computer Graphics |
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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol 20, No 2, 1998, 48-49. In Graphics Remembrances, compiled by Jules Bloomenthal, 35-51 |
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1997a |
FCC Forces Digital TV |
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Wide Gauge Film and Video Monthly, Vol 2, No 4, Apr 1997 |
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1996b |
Blue Screen Matting |
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SIGGRAPH 96 Conference Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, Aug 1996, 259-268. With James F Blinn |
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1996a |
HWB—A More Intuitive Hue-Based Color Model |
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the journal of graphics tools, Vol 1, No 1, 1996, 3-17. With Eric R Lyons |
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1990 |
Review of The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants |
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Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Aristid Lindenmayer, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1990, in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Jul 1990, 85-86 |
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1988 |
Geometry and Imaging |
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Computer Graphics World, Nov 1988, 90-94. Also, Geometry and Imaging—Two Distinct Kinds of Graphics, Proceedings of the Nippon Computer Graphics Conference (NICOGRAPH 88), Nov 1988, 229-239). Also, Geometry vs Imaging—Extended Abstract, Visualization in Supercomputing, edited by Raul H. Mendez, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1990, 151-156 |
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1987b |
Planar 2-Pass Texture Mapping and Warping |
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Computer Graphics, Vol 21, No 4, Jul 1987, 263-272 (SIGGRAPH 87 Conference Proceedings) |
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1987a |
The Video Computer: Image Computing in the Studio |
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Television Technology: A Look Toward the 21st Century, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Feb 1987, 23-27 (Selections from the 21st Annual SMPTE Television Conference, San Francisco). Also in SMPTE Journal, Vol 97, No 3, Mar 1988, 207-208 |
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1986 |
Creating the General-Purpose Image Computer |
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Computer Graphics World, Jun 1986, 63-64 |
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1984 |
Plants, Fractals, and Formal Languages |
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Computer Graphics, Vol 18, No 3, Jul 1984, 1-10 (SIGGRAPH 84 Conference Proceedings). Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 84 |
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1983b |
Computer Power for Film and Flight |
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Supercomputers, Hearings before the Committee on Science and Technology, US House of Representatives, 98th Congress, No 47, US Government Printing Office, Nov 15-16, 1983, 242-246. Reprinted in Telematics and Informatics, Vol 2, No 4, 1985, 293-398 |
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1983a |
Digital Filmmaking |
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Abacus, Vol 1, No 1, Fall 1983, 28-45 (Cover story) |
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1982c |
3-D Animation Tutorial |
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Proceedings of the Nippon Computer Graphics Conference (NICOGRAPH 82), Tokyo, Japan, Nov 1982, 11 pages |
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1982b |
Special Effects for Star Trek II: The Genesis Demo, Instant Evolution with Computer Graphics |
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American Cinematographer, Vol 63, No 10, Oct 1982, 1038-1039, 1048-1050 |
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1982a |
Paint |
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Tutorial: Computer Graphics, edited by John C Beatty and Kellogg S Booth, IEEE Computer Society Press, Silver Spring MD, 2d edition, 1982, 501-515. Also in Seminal Graphics: Pioneering Efforts That Shaped the Field, edited by Rosalee Wolfe, ACM SIGGRAPH, 1998, 427-441. Reprint of New York Tech Memo 7 (see 1978b in Memos below) |
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1981 |
Computers in Filmmaking |
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Computer Graphics Manual, Jan 1981, 108-112 (Proceedings of ComputerVision 81) |
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1980 |
3-D Transformations of Images in Scanline Order |
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Computer Graphics, Vol 14, No 3, Jul 1980, 279-285 (SIGGRAPH 80 Conference Proceedings). With Ed Catmull. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 82 |
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1979 |
Tint Fill |
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Computer Graphics, Vol 13, No 2, Aug 1979, 276-283 (SIGGRAPH 79 Conference Proceedings) |
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1978 |
Color Gamut Transform Pairs |
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Computer Graphics, Vol 12, No 3, Aug 1978, 12-19 (SIGGRAPH 78 Conference Proceedings). Reprinted in Tutorial: Computer Graphics, edited by John C Beatty and Kellogg S Booth, IEEE Computer Society Press, Silver Spring MD, 2d edition, 1982, 376-383. This item is missing from the Table of Contents! |
COMPUTER GRAPHICS MEMOS AND TUTORIAL NOTES
(see
Memos)
(NYIT = New
York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY 11568)
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1998d |
Should Alpha Be Nonlinear If RGB Is? |
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Memo 17 (out of sequence), Microsoft, Dec 1998 |
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1998c |
Eigenpolygon Decomposition of Polygons |
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Memo 19, Microsoft, Oct 1998. Lead directly to Fourier Polygons, Andrew Glassner, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 84-91, Jan-Feb 1999 |
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1998b |
An Alternative View of the Workspace |
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Memo 18 (Memo 17 out of sequence), Microsoft, Oct 1998 |
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1998a |
The Vision Revisited: Animation Possibilities |
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Memo 16, Microsoft, Oct 1998 |
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1997b |
The General Matting Case with n Backings |
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Memo 15, Microsoft, Jun 1997 |
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1997a |
Digital Paint Systems—Historical Overview |
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Memo 14 (Memo 13 not completed), Microsoft, May 1997 |
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1996b |
Image Sprite Functions |
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Memo 12, Microsoft, Jun 1996 |
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1996a |
Blue Screen Matting |
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Memo 11, Microsoft, Jan 1996. With James Blinn |
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1995h |
5x5 Matrix Transformations for 4D Spacetime |
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Memo 10, Microsoft, Oct 1995 |
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1995g |
Gamma Correction |
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Memo 9, Microsoft, Sep 1995 |
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1995f |
Varieties of Digital Painting |
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Memo 8, Microsoft, Aug 1995 |
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1995e |
Alpha and the History of Digital Compositing |
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Memo 7, Microsoft, Aug 1995 |
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1995d |
A Pixel is Not a Little Square, a Pixel is Not a Little Square, a Pixel is Not a Little Square! (and a Voxel is Not a Little Cube) |
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Memo 6, Microsoft, Jul 1995 |
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1995c |
A Sprite Theory of Image Computing |
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Memo 5, Microsoft, Jul 1995 |
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1995b |
Image Compositing Fundamentals |
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Memo 4, Microsoft, Jul 1995 |
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1995a |
Animation Studio Design: Conventional and Digital |
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Memo 3, Microsoft, Jan 1995 |
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1994b |
Microsoft Media, The Vision (MS MTV): Prototypical Scenario and Basic Model |
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Memo 2, Microsoft, Nov 1994 (with Nicholas Clay) |
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1994a |
Microsoft Media, The Vision (MS MTV): Preliminaries |
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Memo 1, Microsoft, Oct 1994 |
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1993 |
Animation |
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Tech Memo 2, Altamira, Nov 1993 |
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1992b |
Altamira Composer and Animation |
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Tech Memo 1, Altamira, Nov 1992 (second revision) |
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1992a |
Hwb - A More Intuitive Hue-Based Color Model |
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Tech Memo 0, Altamira, Sep 1992 (second revision) (with Eric Lyons) |
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1990 |
An RGBA Window System, Featuring Prioritized Full Color Images of Arbitrary Shape and Transparency and a Novel Picking Scheme for Them |
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Tech Memo 221, Pixar, Jul 1990 |
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1989g |
Two Useful Box Routines |
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Tech Memo 216, Pixar, Jun 1988 to Dec 1989 |
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1989f |
First Experiences Coding an IceMan Application |
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Tech Memo 213, Pixar, Oct 1989 |
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1989e |
The Color Page Computer |
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Tech Memo 208, Pixar, Mar 1988. Revised Jan 1989 |
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1989d |
An Aspen Synopsis |
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Tech Memo 206, Pixar, Jun 1988 to Feb 1989 |
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1989c |
A Vail Synopsis |
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Tech Memo 205, Pixar, Jun 1988 to Jan 1989 |
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1989b |
Vail—The IceMan Volume and Imaging Language, Chapters 1-3 |
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Tech Memo 203, Pixar, Jun 1988 to Jan 1989 |
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1989a |
The Tenets of IceMan |
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Tech Memo 202, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jan 1989 |
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1988e |
Vail—The IceMan Volume and Imaging Language |
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Tech Memo 201, Pixar, Sep 1988 |
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1988d |
The ICXL (“Icicle”) Image Computing Exchange Language |
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Tech Memo 200, Pixar, Jun 1988 |
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1988c |
Thoughts on ICE—VI |
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Tech Memo 198, Pixar, Jan 1988 |
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1988b |
Thoughts on ICE—V |
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Tech Memo 197, Pixar, Jan 1988 |
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1988a |
Thoughts on ICE—IV |
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Tech Memo 196, Pixar, Jan 1988 |
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1987f |
Thoughts on ICE—III |
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Tech Memo 195, Pixar, Dec 1987. Revised Jan 1988 |
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1987e |
Thoughts on ICE—II |
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Tech Memo 194, Pixar, Dec 1987. Revised Jan 1988 |
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1987d |
Thoughts on ICE |
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Tech Memo 193, Pixar, Dec 1987 |
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1987c |
The Pixar in Printing and Photography |
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Tech Memo 184, Pixar, Nov 1987 |
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1987b |
Formal Geometric Languages for Natural Phenomena |
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Tech Memo 182, Pixar, May 1987. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 87 |
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1987a |
Volume Graphics and Volume Visualization: A Tutorial |
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Tech Memo 176, Pixar, May 1987. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 87 |
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1986b |
3-D Quadrics Are 2-Pass Transformable |
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Tech Memo 162, Pixar, Aug 1986 |
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1986a |
Proposed Feature Set for Pixar2 |
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Tech Memo 160, Pixar, Jul 1986 |
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1985d |
An AARG Tutorial |
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Tech Memo 167 (sic), Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Sep 1985 |
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1985c |
Series vs Parallel Warps |
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Tech Memo 134, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jun 1985 |
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1985b |
A 2-Pass Solution to the Planar Bicubic Patch |
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Tech Memo 132, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jun 1985 |
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1985a |
A 2-Pass Solution to the Planar Biquadratic Patch |
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Tech Memo 128, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1985 |
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1984e |
Plants and Trees Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 115, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jul 1984. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 84 |
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1984d |
Graftal Formalism Notes |
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Tech Memo 114, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1984. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 84 and 85 |
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1984c |
Pixar Technology Transfer |
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Tech Memo 113, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1984 |
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1984b |
An Algebra for Azimuth, Pitch, and Roll |
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Tech Memo 112, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Mar 1984 |
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1984a |
Replacing Square Roots by Pythagorean Sums |
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Tech Memo 111, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jan 1984 |
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1983j |
Plants, Fractals, and Formal Languages |
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Tech Memo 100, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Nov 1983 |
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1983i |
Supercomputers for Film and Flight |
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Tech Memo 95, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Oct 1983 |
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1983h |
The Viewing Transformation |
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Tech Memo 84, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jun 1983. Revised May 1984. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 84 |
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1983g |
Matrix Conventions Revisited |
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Tech Memo 64 [sic], Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jun 1983 |
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1983f |
Clarifying Computer Graphics |
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Tech Memo 83, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1983 (with Ed Catmull) |
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1983e |
Composer: A New Filmmaking Task/Profession |
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Tech Memo 79, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1983 |
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1983d |
Transformation Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 78, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1983. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 83 and 84 |
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1983c |
Spline Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 77, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1983. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 83 and 84 |
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1983b |
Analysis of Data Structuring for Fractals |
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Tech Memo 76, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1983 |
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1983a |
Laser Bandwidth Requirements |
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Tech Memo 74, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1983 (with David DiFrancesco, Tom Noggle, and Ed Catmull) |
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1982n |
Pixar Prototype Configurations |
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Tech Memo 60, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Nov 1982 |
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1982m |
Projected Superquadrics are 2-Pass Transformable |
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Tech Memo 54, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Aug 1982 |
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1982l |
An Archiving Case Study |
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Tech Memo 51, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Aug 1982 |
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1982k |
A Production Case Study |
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Tech Memo 47, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Aug 1982 |
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1982j |
An RGB Soft-Edged Fill Algorithm |
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Tech Memo 45, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1982 |
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1982i |
Digital Filtering Tutorial, Part II |
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Tech Memo 44, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1982. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 83 and 84 |
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1982h |
Movie Software |
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Tech Memo 43, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1982. Revised May 1982 |
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1982g |
Picture Compositing Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 42, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1982. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 82 |
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1982f |
Film Input Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 41, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1982. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 82 |
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1982e |
Fill Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 40, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1982. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 82 |
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1982d |
Painting Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 38, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1982. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 82 |
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1982c |
Color Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 37, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1982. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 82 |
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1982b |
Math of Mattings |
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Tech Memo 32, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1982. Reissue of a tech memo of Dec 30, 1980 |
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1982a |
Analysis of the Color-Difference Technique |
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Tech Memo 30, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Mar 1982 |
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1981e |
Perspective Convention for Lucasfilm |
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Tech Memo 28, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Dec 1981 |
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1981d |
Digital Filtering Tutorial for Computer Graphics |
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Tech Memo 27, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Nov 1981. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 83 and 84 |
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1981c |
Picture Merging Syntax |
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Tech Memo 8c, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Sep 1981 |
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1981b |
Analysis of Video Matting |
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Tech Memo 8a, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jan 1981 |
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1981a |
Picture Coding and Tile Systems |
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Tech Memo 8, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jan 1981 |
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1980 |
Command Conventions |
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Tech Memo 1, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Dec 1980 |
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1979f |
Table Paint |
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Tutorial Notes, JPL, CalTech, Oct 1979. Issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 80 and 81 |
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1979e |
Incremental Rendering of Textures in Perspective |
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Tutorial Notes, JPL, CalTech, Oct 1979. Issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 80 |
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1979d |
Painting Tutorial Notes |
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Tutorial Notes, Computer Graphics Lab, NYIT, Aug 1979. Issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 79-82 and Infotech 79 (London) |
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1979c |
Color Model Objections and Counterproposals |
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Tech Memo No 11, Computer Graphics Lab, NYIT, Aug 1979. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 80 and 81 |
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1979b |
Texas (Preliminary Report) |
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Tech Memo No 10, Computer Graphics Lab, NYIT, Jul 1979. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 79 (with an Addendum dated Aug 1979) |
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1979a |
YIQ vs RGB |
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Tech Memo No 9, Computer Graphics Lab, NYIT, Apr 1979 |
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1978c |
Realizable Colors |
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Tech Memo No 8, Computer Graphics Lab, NYIT, Aug 1978. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 80 and 81 |
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1978b |
Paint |
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Tech Memo No 7, Computer Graphics Lab, NYIT, Jul 1978. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 78-82. Reprinted in Tutorial: Computer Graphics and in Seminal Graphics: Pioneering Efforts That Shaped the Field (see 1982a in Publications above) |
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1978a |
Fill and Tint Fill |
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Tech Memo No 6, Computer Graphics Lab, NYIT, Jul 1978. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 78, 80-82 |
CELLULAR AUTOMATA THEORY PUBLICATIONS
(see
Papers)
(IEEE FOCS
= Symposium on the Foundations of Computer Science of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, formerly known as IEEE SWAT = Switching and Automata Theory
Symposium)
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1993 |
Cellular Automata |
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Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 3rd edition, edited by Anthony Ralston and Edwin D Reilly, International Thomson Publishing, Jan 1993. I wrote the original entry for the 1st edition and have updated it for each subsequent edition (4th edition in process), 1976, 1983, 1993 |
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1991 |
Simple Nontrivial Self-Reproducing Machines |
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Artificial Life II, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Vol X, edited by C G Langton, C Taylor, J D Farmer, and S Rasmussen, Addison-Wesley, 1991, 709-725 (Proceedings of the ALIFE2 (Artificial Life 2) Conference, Santa Fe, NM, Feb, 1990) |
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1976 |
Introduction and Survey of Polyautomata Theory |
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Automata, Languages, Development, edited by A Lindenmayer and G Rozenberg, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1976, 405-422 |
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1972 |
Real-Time Language Recognition by One-Dimensional Cellular Automata |
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Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Vol 6, No 3, 233-253, Jun 1972 |
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1971d |
Two-Dimensional Formal Languages and Pattern Recognition by Cellular Automata |
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12th IEEE FOCS Conference Record, 144-152, Oct 1971 |
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1971c |
Simple Computation-Universal Cellular Spaces |
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Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, Vol 18, No 3, 339-353, Jul 1971 |
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1971b |
Cellular Automata Complexity Trade-Offs |
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Information and Control, Vol 18, No 5, 466-482, Jun 1971 |
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1971a |
General Shift-Register Sequences of Arbitrary Cycle Length |
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IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol C-20, No 4, 456-459, Apr 1971 |
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1970 |
Cellular Automata and Formal Languages |
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11th IEEE FOCS Conference Record, 216-224, Oct 1970 |
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1969 |
Cellular Automata Theory |
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Technical Report No 2, Digital Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, Dec 1969 |
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1968 |
Simple Computation-Universal Cellular Spaces and Self-Reproduction |
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9th IEEE FOCS Conference Record, 269-277, Oct 1968 |
GENEALOGY PUBLICATIONS (see Papers)
| 2008 | Proposed Hawkshead, Lancashire, Origins of Edward1 Riggs of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Thomas1 Riggs of Gloucester |
| The American Genealogist, Vol 82, 120-29, Apr 2008, with Robert Charles Anderson, FASG | |
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2007b |
Microsoft Word for Genealogy: An Improvement |
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New England Ancestors, Vol 8, No 4, 46-47, Fall 2007 |
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2007a |
Hannah Parsons and Her Four Husbands: Early Mormon History and Apostasy |
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The American Genealogist, Vol 81, No 3, 199-219, Jul 2006 (published Jan 2007), with Marsha Hoffman Rising, FASG |
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2006b |
Elder Bethuel Riggs of Morris County, New Jersey, and His Family (see Book) |
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Boston: Newbury Street Press (NEHGS), Dec 2006, 794 pages, 35 illustrations |
| 2006a | Writing Using Word for Genealogy: Utilizing Microsoft Word in Genealogical Documents in Register, or Modified Register [NGSQ], Format |
| Ch. 7, 65-107, of Leclerc and Hoff, eds., Genealogical Writing in the 21st Century: A Guide to Register Style and More, 2d ed. (Boston, NEHGS, 2006) | |
| 2005b | The Y-DNA Signature of Edward Riggs of Roxbury |
| New England Ancestors, Vol 6, No 3, 46-48, Summer 2005 | |
| 2005a | Word for Genealogy: Utilizing Microsoft Word in Genealogical Documents in Register, or Modified Register [NGSQ], Format, Part 4 |
| New England Ancestors, Vol 6, No 1, 50-51, 54, Winter 2005 | |
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2004d |
Word for Genealogy: Utilizing Microsoft Word in Genealogical Documents in Register, or Modified Register [NGSQ], Format, Part 3 |
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New England Ancestors, Vol 5, No 5-6, 59-60, Holiday 2004 |
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2004c |
Word for Genealogy: Utilizing Microsoft Word in Genealogical Documents in Register, or Modified Register [NGSQ], Format, Part 2 |
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New England Ancestors, Vol 5, No 4, 51-54, Fall 2004 |
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2004b |
Captain Bethuel Riggs of the Revolutionary War Died in Missouri, Not Ohio |
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The American Genealogist, Vol 79, Nos 1-2, 34-37, Jan/Apr 2004 |
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2004a |
Word for Genealogy: Utilizing Microsoft Word in Genealogical Documents in Register, or Modified Register [NGSQ], Format, Part 1 |
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New England Ancestors, Vol 5, No 3, 50-53, Summer 2004 |
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2003d |
How I Was Inspired to Publish a Family History: the Durands of Colonial Connecticut |
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New England Ancestors, Vol 4, Nos 5-6, 28-30, Holiday 2003 |
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2003c |
Indiana Descendants of John Durand, 1664-1727: Excerpts from Dr. John Durand of Derby, Connecticut, and His Family, Part 2 |
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The Hoosier Genealogist, Vol 43, No 2, 127-30, Summer 2003 |
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2003b |
Dr. John Durand of Derby, Connecticut, and His Family (see Book) |
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Boston: Newbury Street Press, Sep 2003, 583 pages, 100 illustrations |
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2003a |
Indiana Descendants of John Durand, 1664-1727: Excerpts from Dr. John Durand of Derby, Connecticut, and His Family, Part 1 |
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The Hoosier Genealogist, Vol 43, No 1, 59-62, Spring 2003, plus front cover |
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2002 |
An Old Littell Family Bible |
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National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol 90, No 4, 273-81, Dec 2002, plus front cover and inside front cover; update: Vol 92, No 1, 50, Mar 2004 |
ARTISTIC PRODUCTIONS (see
Art)
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1973-2006 |
Cover, synapse, 14th - 47th IEEE FOCS Conference Records (Foundations of Computer Science), Oct or Nov of 1973-2006 (34 years!) |
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1988-2006 |
Cover, Irrational Tiling by Logical Quantifiers, 3rd, 5th - 21th IEEE LICS Conference Records (LICS = Logic in Computer Science), Jul of 1988, 1990-2006 (18 years!) |
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2003 |
Conic sections illustration, a digital recomposition of eight figures from Claude Richard's 1655 edition of Apollonius of Perga's Conic Sections, and scans from Isaac Newton's Principia for Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., New York, 2003, pp 674, 685-5. |
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2001 |
Cover, mandarin.tut, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol 23, No 2, Apr-Jun 2001 [and article, pp 4-30, see p 9 in particular] |
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1998 |
Geometric design (parquet deformation) for permanent glass sculpture Nagare by artist Norman Courtney, Centennial Center, Kent, WA, Jun 1998 (dedicated Dec 1998). Commissioned by the Kent Arts Commission 1998 |
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1993 |
Exhibition,
videodisc contributor, Revue virtuelle: The digital
herbarium, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Oct 1993 - Jan 1994 |
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1990 |
Picture, Photofi |