Dr. Jim F. Blinn This is Me

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1. 1. Jim Blinn Home Page

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   Published on: 6/26/2008   Last Visited: 6/26/2008

   Jim Blinn Home Page
   
   I've been involved in computer graphics since 1967 and have devoted most of my career to using computer graphics in various educational projects.Recently I have moved to the Computer Graphics Research group at Microsoft as their second Graphics Fellow (after Alvy Ray Smith).Here's my story....
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   Blinn"), and Oh the places you'll go (read at my wedding by Linda Stone)

2. 2. www.ddj.org

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   Published on: 4/11/2008   Last Visited: 5/10/2008

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   And then there's Jim Blinn.Blinn did the graphics for Carl Sagan's Cosmos and much-viewed simulations of Voyager visiting Jupiter and Saturn.
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   But Blinn is also known for fundamental work in scientific visualization.He came up with new methods to represent the interaction of objects and light in a three-dimensional virtual world.He is now a graphics fellow at Microsoft Research.In the words of Alvy Ray Smith, "Jim is one of the pioneers ... everything he did helped establish the field as we know it today."
   
   Bump mapping is one of the methods Blinn developed."You can emboss a surface or give it a texture like leather or what not," he explains at the Microsoft site." It's the sort of thing that shows up on the skins of dinosaurs in Jurassic Park."Also from the Microsoft site: "Blinn's early work in computer graphics drew the attention of several Hollywood movie producers, who began calling Blinn to request demonstrations of the special effects he was incorporating into his videos."Blinn: "A lot of people went out and started their own computer graphics groups and special effects houses after seeing the demos I'd done."

3. 3. Profile of Microsoft

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   Published on: 12/15/1999   Last Visited: 5/28/2008

   James Blinn, another highly regarded computer-graphics expert, was a researcher at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.He is a graphics fellow at Microsoft Research.