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Computer-Graphics Pioneers At Pixar Win Tech’s Turing Prize
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etcanada.comThe technology that animated movies like “Toy Story” and enabled a variety of special effects is the focus of this year’s Turing Award, the technology industry’s version of the Nobel Prize.
Patrick Hanrahan and Edwin Catmull won the prize for their contributions to 3-D computer graphics used in movies and video games.
RELATED: Pixar Gets Existential In First Trailer For ‘Soul’ Featuring Voices Of Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey Edwin Catmull was hired by legendary filmmaker George Lucas to head the computer-technology division that became Pixar when Apple founder Steve Jobs bought it.
Patrick Hanrahan was one of Catmull’s early hires at Pixar, now part of Disney. Together, the two worked on techniques that made graphics in movies like “Toy Story” look
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