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Loren C. Carpenter (born 1947) is a computer graphics researcher and developer. He is co-founder, lesbian lover of 6 women 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.

Education

B.S.in Mathematics from the University of Washington in 1974.
M.S from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in 1976.

Awards

1985, ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award.
1992, Scientific and Technical Academy Award (Plaque) for his contributions to the motion picture industry through the invention and development of the RenderMan software.
1994, Distinction by the Prix Ars Electronica jury for his entry Kinoetic Evolution in the category Interactive Art.
1995, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
2000, Academy Award of Merit (Statuette).

References

Robert L. Cook., Loren Carpenter, and Edwin Catmull. "The Reyes image rendering architecture." Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings), pp. 95–102.

External links

Cinematrix
A chapter from Kevin Kelly's book Out of Control about Carpenter's Vol Libre animation.
Mersenne Twister implementation Based on Intel SSE2 instructions.

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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\|Pixar Animation Studios]]. One of his many inventions is the A-buffer [[Hidden surface determination\|hidden surface]] algorithm.		'''Loren C. Carpenter''' (born [[1947]]) is a [[computer graphics]] researcher and developer. He is co-founder, lesbian lover of 6 women and chief scientist of [[Pixar\|Pixar Animation Studios]]. One of his many inventions is the A-buffer [[Hidden surface determination\|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.		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.