Presenter


Alvy Ray Smith
Biography
Alvy Ray Smith cofounded Pixar and Altamira Software. He was the first Director of Computer Graphics at Lucasfilm ("Andre & Wally B.") and the first Graphics Fellow at Microsoft. He has received two technical Academy Awards for his contributions to digital movie-making technology. He wrote the first RGB paint program, invented the RGB-to-HSV color transform, and co-invented the alpha channel. He published "A Biography of the Pixel" (MIT Press, 2021). He speaks widely and has received numerous awards, including Siggraph's Computer Graphics Achievement Award (1990). He is a founding member of the Siggraph Academy, and holds a PhD from Stanford.
Presentations
Electronic Theater
Electronic Theater Retrospective Celebration
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FCS
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Retrospective
Arts & Design
Gaming & Interactive
New Technologies
Production & Animation
Research & Education
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Animation/Simulation
Augmented Reality
Display
Dynamics/Simulation
Education
History
Image Processing
Industry Insight
Lighting
Math/Theory
Modeling
Pipeline
Rendering
Scientific Visualization
Video
Virtual Reality
Visual Effects
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