Pixar's former president Edwin Catmull and founding employee Pat Hanrahan have been awarded the 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their contributions to computer graphics. The award is handed out by the ...

Two of Pixar Animation Studios’ earliest employees, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, have won the computer industry’s prestigious Turing Prize for their contributions to 3D graphics and CGI filmmaking.

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the application of the field of computer graphics (or more specifically, 3D computer graphics) to special effects. CGI is used in films, television programs and ...

Two of Pixar Animation Studios’ earliest employees, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, have won the computer industry’s prestigious Turing Prize for their contributions to 3D graphics and CGI filmmaking.

30-some years ago, when men were men and Darth Vader wasn’t some emo nancy-boy, we didn’t have CGI: We had dials, pushbuttons, monochromatic screens and, thankfully, someone with the good sense to ...

With Tron Legacy out and making us all reflect on how far computer graphics have come since 1982, we thought that this would be a good time to look at the history, evolution and occasionally ...