Jim Blinn is known for his computer animations done at JPL for the NASA Voyager fly-bys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, for Carl Sagan’s Cosmos TV series, and for the telecourses The Mechanical Universe (Physics), and Mathematics!. He did early work on lighting and texturing, has written books on the mathematics of Computer Graphics and is working on a book on Real Projective Algebraic Geometry. His awards include the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the Siggraph Computer Graphics Achievement Award and Steven A. Coons award, the Ub Iwerks award, a MacArthur Fellowship and election to the National Academy of Engineering.