Andrew Witkin
Andy Witkin | |
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 Witkin in 1987 | |
| Born | Andrew Paul Witkin July 22, 1952 |
| Died | September 12, 2010 (aged 58) Monterey, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Toy Story 3 |
| Spouse | Sharon Witkin |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Prix Ars Electronica (1992) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Shape from Contour (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Whitman Albin Richards[1] |
| Website | www |
Andrew Paul Witkin (July 22, 1952 – September 12, 2010) was an American computer scientist who made major contributions in computer vision and computer graphics.
Education
Witkin studied
Career
After MIT, Witkin worked briefly at
From 1988 to 1998, he was a professor of computer science, robotics, and art at Carnegie Mellon University, after which he joined Pixar in Emeryville, California. At CMU and Pixar, with his colleagues he developed the methods and simulators used to model and render natural-looking cloth,[2][3] hair, water, and other complex aspects of modern computer animation.[4]
Awards and honors
The paper "Snakes: Active Contour Models"
He was a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.[8] In 1992, Witkin and Kass were awarded the Prix Ars Electronica computer graphics award for "Reaction–Diffusion Texture Buttons."[9]
Witkin received the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 2001 "for his pioneering work in bringing a physics based approach to computer graphics."[10]
As senior scientist at Pixar, Witkin received a technical
Personal life
Andrew Witkin was the son of psychologist Herman Witkin and geneticist Evelyn M. Witkin. He was married to psychologist Sharon Witkin; they had two children.
Death
He died in a scuba diving accident off the coast of Monterey, California, on September 12, 2010. The 2011 film, Cars 2 was dedicated in his memory along with Japeth Pieper in the credits.
References
- ^ a b Andrew Witkin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- S2CID 12849354. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2016-01-12. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
- ^ a b Saunders, Kathryn (September 20, 2010). "Andrew Witkin, the Academy-Award Winning Creator of Special-Effects Cloth has died". ACM SIGGRAPH news feed. Archived from the original on September 25, 2010.
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- ^ "Elected AAAI Fellows". AAAI. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
- S2CID 207162368.
- ^ "2001 ACM SIGGRAPH Awards – Computer Graphics Achievement Award – Andrew Witkin". 19 October 2021.
- ^ Thomas J. McLean (September 21, 2010). "Oscar-winning Pixar Scientist Witkin Dies". Animation Magazine.
Further reading
- Witkin, A. (1984). "Scale-space filtering: A new approach to multi-scale description". ICASSP '84. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Vol. 9. pp. 150–153. S2CID 11755124.
- De Rose, Tony (January–February 2011). "Andy Witkin: From Computer Vision to Computer Graphics". IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 31 (1): 102–105. PMID 24955477.
- Witkin, A.; Kass, M. (1988). "Spacetime constraints". Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '88. p. 159. S2CID 2887054.
External links
- Andrew Witkin author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
- Andrew Witkin's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- Andrew P. Witkin at DBLP Bibliography Server
- Andy Witkin at IMDb
