Franklin C. Crow
{{short description|American computer scientist}}
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| father = James F. Crow
| mother = Ann Crockett
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| occupation = Computer scientist
| notable_works = University of Texas
Ohio State University
NYIT
Xerox
PARC
Apple
ATG
Interval Research
Nvidia
| alma_mater = University of Utah College of Engineering
| known_for = Computer graphics
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Franklin "Frank" C. Crow is a computer scientist who has made important contributions to computer graphics, including some of the first practical spatial anti-aliasing techniques.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jlho9B95IRkC&pg=PA10 |title = Pro OpenGL ES for iOS|isbn = 9781430238416|last1 = Smithwick|first1 = Mike|date = 2012-02-25| publisher=Apress }}{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YA_vPBzFHxUC&q=%22frank+crow%22+aliasing |title = CG 101: A Computer Graphics Industry Reference|isbn = 9780735700468|last1 = Masson|first1 = Terrence|year = 1999| publisher=New Riders }} Crow also proposed the shadow volume technique for generating geometrically accurate shadows.
Education
Crow studied electrical engineering at the University of Utah College of Engineering under Ivan Sutherland,{{cite web | last=A+ | first=Bim | title=The very beginning of the digital representation | website=BIM A+ | date=2018-12-13 | url=https://bimaplus.org/news/the-very-beginning-of-the-digital-representation-ivan-sutherland-sketchpad/ | access-date=2024-02-14}} a pioneer in computer graphics.
Career
Crow taught at the University of Texas, NYIT and Ohio State University and was involved with research at Xerox PARC, Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group, and Interval Research.{{Cite web | url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/nyit/masson/nyit.html | title=Brief History of the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab}}
From 2001 to 2008, he worked for NVIDIA as a GPU architect designing rasterization algorithms.
Publications
- "Parallel Computing for Graphics." Advances in Computer Graphics, 1990:113-140.
- "Parallelism in rendering algorithms." in Graphics Interface 88, June 6–10, 1988, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. p. 87-96
- "Advanced Image Synthesis - Anti-Aliasing." Advances in Computer Graphics, 1985:419-440.
- "Advanced Image Synthesis - Surfaces." Advances in Computer Graphics, 1985:457-467.
- "Computational Issues in Rendering Anti-Aliased Detail." COMPCON, 1982:238-244.
- "Toward more complicated computer imagery." Computers & Graphics, 5(2-4):61-69 (1980).
- "The Aliasing Problem in Computer-Generated Shaded Images." Commun. ACM, 20(11):799-805 (1977).
- "Shadow Algorithms for Computer Graphics", Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH '77 Proceedings), vol. 11, no. 2, 242–248.
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