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    Applications called "Jim Blinn's Corner". He wrote a total of 83 columns, most of which were reprinted in these books: Blinn, James F.: Jim Blinn's Corner: Dirty...
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  • The Blinn–Phong reflection model, also called the modified Phong reflection model, is a modification developed by Jim Blinn to the Phong reflection model...
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  • Ivan Sutherland, Holzman hired a graduate student from Utah named Jim Blinn. Blinn had worked with imaging techniques at Utah, and developed them into...
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    Gouraud, Jim Blinn and Bui Tuong Phong contributed to the foundations of shading in CGI via the development of the Gouraud shading and Blinn–Phong shading...
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    this. The real teapot is 33% taller (ratio 4:3) than the computer model. Jim Blinn stated that he scaled the model on the vertical axis during a demo in...
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    decimation and interpolation of 2-dimensional image data. According to Jim Blinn, the Lanczos kernel (with a = 3) "keeps low frequencies and rejects high...
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  • Blinn College Clara Blinn (1847 – 1868), American settler Edmund Blinn of Edmund Blinn House Genevieve Blinn Canadian actress George Blinn Francis (August...
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    time, and likely brought the algorithm to 3dfx Interactive circa 1994. Jim Blinn demonstrated a simple approximation of the inverse square root in a 1997...
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    for sculpting. The technique for rendering metaballs was invented by Jim Blinn in the early 1980s to model atom interactions for Carl Sagan's 1980 TV...
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  • eight hours of computer animation created by computer graphics pioneer Jim Blinn along with assistants Sylvie Rueff and Tom Brown at the Jet Propulsion...
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