Loren C. Carpenter (born 1947) is a computer graphics researcher and developer. He is co-founder and chief scientist of Pixar Animation Studios. One of his many inventions is the A-buffer hidden surface algorithm.
In 1980 when he was working at The Boeing Company he presented at SIGGRAPH a two-minute animation showing a very complicated landscape called Vol Libre, then he was hired to work at Lucasfilm's Computer Division. He is also co-founder o...
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Loren C. Carpenter (born 1947) is a computer graphics researcher and developer. He is co-founder and chief scientist of Pixar Animation Studios. One of his many inventions is the A-buffer hidden surface algorithm.
In 1980 when he was working at The Boeing Company he presented at SIGGRAPH a two-minute animation showing a very complicated landscape called Vol Libre, then he was hired to work at Lucasfilm's Computer Division. He is also co-founder of Cinematrix, a very well known company among assistants to SIGGRAPH convention.
Recently he also made improvements to the popular Mersenne Twister random number generator.
Loren is a grandnephew of Charles Schmidt, the creator of Sgt. Pat of Radio Patrol, a nationally syndicated police comic strip which ran in the '30s and '40s.
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