Henri Gouraud (computer scientist)

{{Short description|French computer scientist (born 1944)}}

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|birth_date = 1944

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|alma_mater = University of Utah
École Centrale Paris

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|known_for = Gouraud Shading

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Henri Gouraud (born 1944) is a French computer scientist. He is the inventor of Gouraud shading used in computer graphics. He is the great-nephew of general Henri Gouraud.

During 1964–1967, he studied at École Centrale Paris. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah College of Engineering in 1971, working with Dave Evans and Ivan Sutherland, with his dissertation titled [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=905323&dl=ACM&coll=portal Computer Display of Curved Surfaces].{{cite web |last1=Dalbera |first1=Stéphane |title=Henri Gouraud, the best-known of the little-known |url=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/henri-gouraud-best-known-little-known-stéphane-dalbera-1sawf/?trackingId=IqJovx9euwfZKd6gXpRQXQ%3D%3D}}

In 1971, Gouraud made the first computer graphics geometry capture and representation of a human face in wire-frame model, and applied his shader to produce the famous human face images showing the effect of his shading, which were done using his wife Sylvie Gouraud as the model.{{cite web|title=Images de synthèse : palme de la longévité pour l'ombrage de Gouraud|date=14 September 2008 |url=http://interstices.info/jcms/c_25256/images-de-synthese-palme-de-la-longevite-pour-lombrage-de-gouraud}}