Frederic Parke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetFrederic Parke
American computer graphics professional
Date of Birth: 13-May-1943
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Profession: engineer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Frederic Parke
- Frederic Ira 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 1971 in a project partially financed by DARPA Parke made the first 3D animation of a representation of a human face.
- This animation was wireframe graphics underneath but used the now classic Gouraud shading that estimates curving surfaces that was invented this year by computer scientist Henri Gouraud. He has worked at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Laboratory.Parke currently teaches at Texas A&M University in the Visualization Sciences program.
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