Loren Carpenter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Loren Carpenter

American computer graphics researcher

Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1947

Place of Birth: Brighton, Michigan, United States

Profession: engineer, computer scientist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Loren Carpenter

  • Loren C.
  • Carpenter (born February 7, 1947) is a computer graphics researcher and developer.
  • He is co-founder and chief scientist of Pixar Animation Studios.
  • He is the co-inventor of the Reyes rendering algorithm and is one of the authors of the PhotoRealistic RenderMan software which implements Reyes and renders all of Pixar's movies.
  • Following Disney's acquisition of Pixar, Carpenter became a Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research.
  • He retired in early 2014.In around 1967 Carpenter began work at Boeing Computer Services (a part of aircraft maker Boeing) in Seattle, Washington.
  • During his time there Carpenter studied for a B.S.
  • in Mathematics (1974) and an M.S.
  • in Computer Science (1976), both from the University of Washington.
  • Some of his work concerned using computer technology to improve Boeing's mechanical design processes, which were still entirely done by hand on paper.In 1980 he gave a presentation at the SIGGRAPH conference, in which he showed "Vol Libre", a 2-minute computer generated movie.
  • This showcased his software for generating and rendering fractally generated landscapes, and was met with a standing ovation, and (as Carpenter had hoped) he was immediately invited to work at Lucasfilm's Computer Division (which would become Pixar).
  • There Carpenter worked on the "genesis effect" scene of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which featured an entire fractally-landscaped planet.He and his wife Rachel founded Cinematrix, a company that researches computer-assisted interactive audience participation.Carpenter invented the A-buffer hidden surface determination algorithm.The PXR24 compression scheme used in Industrial Light & Magic's Open EXR file format is based on Carpenter's work.In 2006 made improvements to the popular Mersenne Twister random number generator.Carpenter is a grandnephew of Charles Schmidt, the creator of Sgt.
  • Pat of Radio Patrol, a nationally syndicated police comic strip which ran in the 1930s and 1940s.

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