Franklin C. Crow

Franklin C. Crow
Alma mater	University of Utah College of Engineering
Occupation	Computer scientist
Known for	Computer graphics
Notable work	University of Texas Ohio State University NYIT Xerox PARC Apple ATG Interval Research NVIDIA
Parents	James F. Crow (father) Ann Crockett (mother)

Franklin C. (Frank) Crow is a computer scientist who has made important contributions to computer graphics, including some of the first practical spatial anti-aliasing techniques. Crow also proposed the shadow volume technique for generating geometrically accurate shadows.

Education

Crow studied electrical engineering at the University of Utah College of Engineering under Ivan Sutherland, a pioneer in computer graphics.

Career

Crow taught at the University of Texas, NYIT and Ohio State University and was involved with research at Xerox PARC, Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group, and Interval Research.

From 2001 to 2008, he worked for NVIDIA as a GPU architect designing rasterization algorithms.

Publications

• "Parallel Computing for Graphics." Advances in Computer Graphics, 1990:113-140.
• "Parallelism in rendering algorithms." in Graphics Interface 88, June 6–10, 1988, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. p. 87-96
• "Advanced Image Synthesis - Anti-Aliasing." Advances in Computer Graphics, 1985:419-440.
• "Advanced Image Synthesis - Surfaces." Advances in Computer Graphics, 1985:457-467.
• "Computational Issues in Rendering Anti-Aliased Detail." COMPCON, 1982:238-244.
• "Toward more complicated computer imagery." Computers & Graphics, 5(2-4):61-69 (1980).
• "The Aliasing Problem in Computer-Generated Shaded Images." Commun. ACM, 20(11):799-805 (1977).
• "Shadow Algorithms for Computer Graphics", Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH '77 Proceedings), vol. 11, no. 2, 242–248.

See also

• University of Texas at Austin
• Texture mapping