🇬🇧 Bui Tuong Phong - The mysterious creator of Phong shading and the 1st scanned object

🇬🇧 Abalanche | Bui Tuong Phong - The mysterious creator of Phong shading and the 1st scanned object
Knock Knock Episode 1: Phong & the 1st scanned object
High-end racing games such as Forza Motorsports requires an insane level of details for the cars. So the actual racing car is scanned carefully by tons of modern equipments to create a super detailed model with the accuracy at mm-level. It's very impressive.
But who does it better? A professional team with laser and cameras or a group of student with yardsticks ?
The scanning work was done manually with yardsticks by students from University of Utah in 1970s. One of them invented the badass Phong shading method to render this VW bug correctly. Who is he ?
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REFERENCES:
Bùi Tường Phong (Bui Tuong Phong): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bui_Tuo...
Phong shading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_s...
Bui Tuong Phong's Ph.D. dissertation (1973): collections.lib.utah.edu/deta...
Bui Tuong Phong's paper (1975): www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/vr/...
Robert McDemort remembers: www.cs.utah.edu/docs/misc/Ute...
The first real object ever 3D scanned: jalopnik.com/the-first-real-o...
CG Icons: ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/grap...
Graphics history - University of Utah: ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/grap...
University of Utah archive: www.sigcis.org/files/ws2013Ga...
University of Utah History page: www.cs.utah.edu/about/history/
Blinn-Phong shading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinn%E...
Computer visions - Jim Blinn: • Computer Visions - Jam...
Henri Gouraud: - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_G...)
Gouraud shading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouraud...
Henri Gouraud's dissertation: collections.lib.utah.edu/deta...
collections.lib.utah.edu/file...
Ivan Sutherland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Su...
Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad
Alan Kay demonstrated Sketchpad: archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987
Retro VR #1 - Ivan Sutherland and The Sword of Damocles: • Retro VR #1 // Ivan Su...
Forza Motorsports 4's car sourcing: • The Making of Forza Mo...
Forza Motorsports 8 trailer: • Forza Motorsport 8 - ...
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[@sauravpathak1802]

Very informative.

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Thank you.

[@SamuelCastroOropeza]

Awesome documentary!

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Glad that you enjoyed

[@cavietnam99]

Phong is VIetnamese, but Vietnamese people less know about him, so sad

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