Jim Blinn's Corner: Dixty Pixels

For over three decades, eminent computer graphicist Jim Blinn has coupled his scientific knowledge and artistic abilities to foster the growth of the computer graphics field. His many contributions include the Voyager flyby animations of space missions to Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus; The Mechanical Universe, a 52-part telecourse of animated physics; and the computer animation of Carl Sagan's PBS series Cosmos. In addition, Blinn is the recipient of the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award as well as the SIGGRAPH Coons Award, and has developed many widely used graphics techniques, including bump mapping, environment mapping, and blobby modeling. In 2000, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He currently works at Microsoft Research.

• 1. The World's Largest Easter Egg and What Came Out of It2. What We Need Around Here Is More Aliasing3. Return of the Jaggy4. How Many Different Curves Are There?5. Dirty Pixels6. Cubic Curve Update7. Triage Tables8. The Wonderful World of Video9. Uppers and Downers10. Uppers and Downers, Part II11. The World of Digital Video12. How I Spent My Summer Vacation—197613. NTSC: Nice Technology, Super Color14. What's the Deal with the DCT?15. Quantization Error and Dithering16. Compositing—Theory17. "Composting"—Practice18. How to Attend a SIGGRAPH Conference19. Three Wrongs Make a Right20. Fun with Premultiplied Alpha