Frederic Parke

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Frederic Parke
Born (1943-05-13) May 13, 1943 (age 80)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Utah
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Utah
IBM

Frederic Ira Parke graduated from the University of Utah with a BS degree in physics in 1965. He was then a graduate student of the University of Utah College of Engineering where he received his MS (1972) and PhD (1974) in computer science.

In 1972 in a project partially financed by DARPA Parke made the first 3D animation of a representation of a human face. This animation was wireframe graphics underneath but used the now classic Gouraud shading that estimates curving surfaces that was invented the previous year by computer scientist Henri Gouraud.[1] He has worked at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Laboratory.[2]

Parke currently teaches at Texas A&M University in the Visualization Sciences program.

References

  1. ^ Parke, Frederic, "Computer generated animation of faces", ACM '72 Proceedings of the ACM annual conference, Volume 1: 451–457, doi:10.1145/800193.569955 {{citation}}: |volume= has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help)
  2. ^ "NYITer's: Where Are They Now?". cs.cmu.edu.

External links

  • Homepage of Frederic I. Parke at Texas A&M University