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NMSU graduate elected to National Academy of Engineering   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) New Mexico State University graduate Alvy Ray Smith, who co-founded Pixar and shared in two Academy Awards for technical advances in digital media, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions that can be accorded to an engineer. Smith, of Seattle, was recognized for “the development of digital imaging, compositing and painting that have led to fundamental changes in the graphic arts and motion picture industries.” “Alvy Ray Smith is a man of many talents, a visionary who has had a tremendous impact on the development of computer graphics capabilities and computer animation for motion pictures,” said NMSU Dean of Engineering Steven Castillo. www.nmsu.edu /~ucomm/Releases/2006/march/alvy_ray.htm   (488 words)

Alvy Ray Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alvy Ray Smith III (born 8 September 1943) is a noted pioneer in computer graphics. Smith's major contribution to this software was the creation of the HSV color space. In 1975, Smith was recruited to join the new Computer Graphics Laboratory at New York Institute of Technology, one of the leading computer graphics research groups of the 1970s. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alvy_Ray_Smith   (476 words)

Stanford School of Engineering - Alumni Profile Although Smith considers the founding of Pixar a particularly important achievement in his career, the NAE was officially honoring Smith for innovations in digital art, graphics, and animation technologies. A lot depended on serendipity, including meeting some of the giants of science, technology, and entertainment, but it was Smith’s ingenuity and drive to create a computer-animated movie that led to Pixar’s founding. Smith is an avid genealogist and in his research he has found that he is a distant relative of famed former Stanford aeronautics professor William F. Durand. soe.stanford.edu /alumni/profile_smith_a.html   (1098 words)

Alvy Ray Smith - IT Channel - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness Indeed, Smith’s Ph.D. dissertation from Stanford University was on cellular automata theory, a branch of physics that looks at the state of objects in space and time, a field that he would later apply to his animation work. Smith’s 84-year-old father, Alvy Ray Smith II, says his son’s interest in art emerged early, pointing to early photography experiments that kept him out of teenage mischief. Smith’s decision to leave Pixar in 1991 to found Altamira Software was born of his revelation that the personal computer, which he had largely ignored up to that point, could bring graphics technology to more creative souls. www.crn.com /it-channel/55300716   (1192 words)

TechNetCast - Recollections of Early Paint Systems Smith later moved on to the New York Institute of Technology -a hotbed of graphics research in the late 70's- where he wrote the first 24-bit paint program, BigPaint. In 1980, Alvy Ray Smith co-founded (with Ed Catull) Pixar. Both Dick Shoup and Alvy Ray Smith received several awards for their work including an academy award in 1998 for their "pioneering inventions in Digital Paint System". technetcast.ddj.com /tnc_program.html?program_id=69   (325 words)

Charles Babbage Institute: RESEARCH PROGRAM> Current research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) In 1974 Alvy Ray Smith, developer of the first full-color paint program and Shoup’s colleague at Xerox PARC, introduced a RGB to HSV (hue-saturation-value) color transform algorithm into SuperPaint to facilitate the kind of color mixing artists favored with real paints, and used the system to make Vidbits (1974), his first digitally animated video. Alvy Ray Smith, “Digital Paint Systems: Historical Overview,” Microsoft Technical Memo 14, prepared for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, May 2, 1997. Alvy Ray Smith, “Digital Paint Systems: An Anecdotal and Historical Overview,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 23 (April-June 2001): 4-30. www.cbi.umn.edu /shp/entries/superpaint.html   (484 words)

Q&A: Microsoft Graphics Guru Dr. Alvy Ray Smith Talks About PhotoDraw 2000 and the Future of Computer Graphics: Dr. ... QandA: Microsoft Graphics Guru Dr. Alvy Ray Smith Talks About PhotoDraw 2000 and the Future of Computer Graphics: Dr. Smith's vision helped inspire the creation of PhotoDraw 2000, a new software graphics program that enables business users to easily create and incorporate professional-looking graphics into their Web sites and printed materials. Smith's vision helped inspire the creation of PhotoDraw 2000, a new software graphics program that enables business users to easily create and incorporate professional-looking graphics into their Web sites and printed materials. Smith has received two technical Academy Awards, and was co-recipient of the Computer Graphics Achievement Award from the Association for Computing Machinery SIGGRAPH in 1990. www.microsoft.com /presspass/features/1998/9-14alvy.mspx   (1905 words)

New England Historic Genealogical Society Smith received the award at a luncheon on May 21, 2004, during the NGS annual conference in Sacramento, California. At the CSG annual meeting on May 15, Dr. Smith’s book was awarded a literary prize for its superior scholarship and contribution to the field. Alvy Ray Smith is the co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, a two-time Academy Award® winner in the Scientific and Engineering category, and computer graphics innovator. www.newenglandancestors.org /press/more_640_101.asp?print=1   (394 words)

Brief History of the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab Alvy Ray Smith and David DiFrancesco (both fresh from Xerox PARC) joined the team a few months later in what was called the 3Gerry Mansion2. Alvy quickly jumped in the driver-less truck and stopped it just before it could smash the VAX back into the very truck it was just unloaded from. Ed Catmull9s Tween, Alvy Ray Smith9s Paint program, and the 2D animation program SoftCel, all were in keeping with the original charter of the CGL, which was 2D CG. www-2.cs.cmu.edu /~ph/nyit/masson/nyit.html   (1585 words)

DTC past seminars/symposia: Alvy Ray Smith Smith analyzes the problem with everything he knows and comes to perhaps surprising conclusions. Smith will present an analysis of just how hard it is to simulate the appearance of actors, and he will make predictions of when. Smith was a star witness in a trial that successfully invalidated five patents that had been plaguing the digital imaging business. www.dtc.umn.edu /seminars/050102.shtml   (255 words)

Keynote Speaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) Smith's résumé reads like a list of great moments in computer graphics. He joined Xerox PARC in 1974 and produced work that found its way into the New York Museum of Modern Art. He co-founded Pixar (where the classic Tin Toy animated short was made), then Altamira, which was then acquired by Microsoft. www.nlm.nih.gov /research/visible/vhp_conf/smith/smith.htm   (136 words)

DBLP: Alvy Ray Smith Alvy Ray Smith, James F. Blinn: Blue Screen Matting. Jane Flint DeKoven, Tim Binkley, Glenn Entis, Delle Maxwell, Alvy Ray Smith: Computer technology and the artistic process: how the computer industry changes the form and function of art. Alvy Ray Smith: Planar 2-pass texture mapping and warping. www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Smith:Alvy_Ray.html   (149 words)

Register Report Alvy Ray Smith, “Blair Family - 1st Generation,” http://www.alvyray.com/family/tree/index.htm#s91b, 11/26/2001. Alvy Ray Smith, “Rinaman Family - 1st Generation,” http://www.alvyray.com/family/tree/index.htm#s811b, 11/26/2001. Alvy Ray Smith, “McNealy Family - 1st Generation,” http://www.alvyray.com/family/tree/index.htm#s644b, 11/26/2001. gililland.net /Gililland/Register/RR_SRC.htm   (2729 words)

HSV color space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The lower the saturation of a color, the more "grayness" is present and the more faded the color will appear, thus useful to define desaturation as the qualitative inverse of saturation The HSV model was created in 1978 by Alvy Ray Smith. It is a nonlinear transformation of the RGB color space, and may be used in color progressions. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HSV_color_space   (1148 words)

HPCwire Article # 70012 Alvy Ray Smith, Academy Award winner and Microsoft Graphics Fellow, to speak at SUPERCOMPUTING '96 in November Alvy Ray Smith, Academy Award winner and Microsoft Graphics Fellow, to speak at SUPERCOMPUTING '96 Friday, November 22, 8:30 a.m. Alvy Ray Smith has been a leader in computer graphics for over 20 years. www.hpcwire.com /hpc-bin/artread.pl?direction=Current&articlenumber=70012   (518 words)

NMSU College of Engineering Alvy Ray Smith cofounded—or was otherwise present at the beginning of—four centers of computer graphics excellence Smith holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford University and an honorary doctorate from NMSU, his alma mater (BSEE 1964). Smith speaks extensively, has published dozens of articles, the most recent in Scientific American, and created numerous artworks. engr.nmsu.edu /~coetest/bromilow_lecturers_smith.htm   (375 words)

Pixar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The newly independent company was headed by Dr. Edwin Catmull, President and CEO, and Dr. Alvy Ray Smith, Executive Vice President and Director. Initially, Pixar was a high-end hardware company whose core product was the Pixar Image Computer, a system which was primarily sold to government agencies and the medical community. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pixar   (3671 words)

Alvy Pixar History Page These are exactly the 40 founding employees of Pixar, including Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith, the Co-founders. The original Board of Directors consisted of Ed, Alvy, and Steve, with Steve as Chairman of the Board. Ed, Alvy, and David were the original three employees of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm, arriving in quick succession in that order, and rejoined not too much later by Malcolm Blanchard.] www.alvyray.com /Pixar   (399 words)

Joho the Blog: Alvy Ray Smith on Digital Actors [From PopTech] Alvy Ray Smith has won two Oscars for technical achievement and was the founder of Pixar. They therefore can't generate graphical representations of convincing actors: There can't be a "React to the De Niro character's confession of adultery" subroutine that results in the good acting that Streep would do because that would require consciousness. Ray thinks that in his lifetime we will see a convincing feature film that's entirely digital, but it will be done by digitally representing a live actor. www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/000084.html   (391 words)

Family Database - Person Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) Alvy Smith (2) subsequently added a brief introduction to the tape, and Edith appended several stories. The transcription is by Alvy Ray Smith (3), 12 Jan 1986. Obtained by Alvy Ray Smith from Ophelia Fink at an Israel Hargreaves family reunion in Kenedy TX. www.alvyray.com /Family/dag/all-p/p1.htm   (10733 words)

Computer History Museum - Lectures - Biographies Alvy Ray Smith, Co-Founder of four centers of computer graphics excellence (Altamira, Pixar, Lucasfilm, New York Tech) and a Microsoft Fellow Alvy Ray Smith co-founded four centers of computer graphics excellence before joining Microsoft as its first Graphics Fellow: Altamira, Pixar, Lucasfilm, New York Tech. Retired in 1999, Dr. Smith devotes time to the emerging artform of digital photography and to scholarly genealogy, to which he has contributed a prize-winning book and several journal papers. www.computerhistory.org /events/index.php?spkid=2&ssid=1114720561   (149 words)

Alvy Ray Smith Bio Long He was a Regent for four years for the National Library of Medicine, where he was instrumental in inaugurating the Visible Human Project. In 1994, Dr Smith's company Altamira was acquired by Microsoft, where he articulated Microsoft's vision for multimedia authoring, fought the Digital Television (DTV) battle with Washington, and guided the incorporation of Altamira Composer software technology and philosophy into Microsoft products. Dr Smith speaks extensively; he presented the 1997 Forsythe Lectures at Stanford University and the 2001 Bromilow Lecture at New Mexico State University. alvyray.com /Bio/BioMain.htm   (1116 words)

Infinite regular hexagon sequences on a triangle, Alvy Ray Smith Infinite regular hexagon sequences on a triangle, Alvy Ray Smith The well-known dual pair of Napoleon equilateral triangles intrinsic to each triangle is extended to infinite sequences of them, shown to be special cases of infinite regular hexagon sequences on each triangle. Extensive experimentation with a plane geometry educational program inspired all theorems, proofs of which utilize eigenvector analysis of polygons in the complex plane. projecteuclid.org /Dienst/UI/1.0/Summarize/euclid.em/1045604674   (140 words)

Computer History Museum - Lectures - "Recollections of Early Paint Systems" His colleague and friend Alvy Ray Smith collaborated on SuperPaint, and then went on to develop the first full-color paint program and much more at New York Tech in the late 1970s. In this talk, Dick and Alvy will describe and demonstrate -- hardware gods willing -- the original 1973 SuperPaint graphics system, and a Windows-based PC emulation of the NYIT full-color Paint3 program, play some tapes, and tell some stories of their early adventures in pixel graphics. Alvy Ray Smith and Dick Shoup at 1998 Oscar ceremony--with their technical award given for "pioneering inventions in Digital Paint Systems." www.computerhistory.org /events/lectures/superpaint_01132000   (424 words)

Family Database - Person Page 23   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) She married Bernie Ray Gray on 18 June 1923. He is the source of the Jane Calloway history reported by Colin to me. Colin also reports that Myra signs her name Myra C. Smith and that she spells her maiden name Callaway. Note (May 10, 1987): Alvy and Edith Smith met her at the Hargreaves family reunion in Kenedy, TX, in May 1987. www.alvyray.com /Family/dag/all-p/p23.htm   (4694 words)

alvy ray smith - ResearchIndex document query   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) Alvy Ray Smith, one of the early authors dealing with Alvy Ray Smith, Paint, in Tutorial: Computer Graphics, John be implemented in hardware 4 A quote from Alvy Ray Smith that stresses the importance of polygons for citeseer.ist.psu.edu /cis?q=Alvy+Ray+Smith   (224 words)

SuperPaint I designed most of the hardware using pencil on paper, fabricated it (one printed circuit board and the rest Augat wirewrapped prototype boards) with help from a number of others in early 1973, and coaxed it into displaying its first stable picture in early April, 1973. I wrote most of the software too, but am grateful to Larry Clark, Alvy Ray Smith, Bob Flegal, and Patrick Baudelaire who contributed significantly as well. I gave a talk on SuperPaint along with my friend and colleague Alvy Ray Smith in January 2000 at the Computer History Museum at Moffett Field in Mountain View. www.rgshoup.com /prof/SuperPaint   (1345 words)

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