Pixar Photoscience Team
The Pixar Photoscience Division, a division of
computer-animated
images onto film master negatives. Today the team manages all digital content to a variety of delivery media, film, DVD, and digital cinema projection. The team has won Engineering and Technical Academy Awards and patents for their work in Motion Picture Sciences.
Key People
- David DiFrancesco Director of Photosciences
- Beth Sullivan Administration Manager
- Matt Martin Hardware/Software Engineer
- Tom Noggle Hardware/Software Engineer
- James Burgess Software Engineer
- Don Conway Technician
- Babak Sanii Software Instrumentation Engineer
- John Shlens Software Instrumentation Engineer
Consultants
- Gary Starkweather
- Bala S. Manian
- Peter Flowers
Awards
- Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and SciencesScientific and Technical Achievement Award, 1998
- Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Scientific and Technical Achievement Award, 1994
- Royal Photographic Society ARPS, 1985
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1979
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1977
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1975
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1974
Patents
- 5,194,969 Method for Borderless Mapping of Texture Images
- 5,771,109 Method and Apparatus for Digitizing Film Using a Stroboscopic Scanning System
- 5,815,202 Method and Apparatus for Scanning an Image with a Moving Lens System
- 5,831,757 Multiple Cylinder Deflection System
- 6,172,705 Method and Apparatus for Film Scanner Interface
- 6,628,442 Method and Apparatus for Beam Deflection Using Multiple Beam Scanning Galvanometers
- 7,336,349 Two-Dimensional Array Spectroscopy
- 7,463,821 Flat Panel Image to Film Transfer Method and Apparatus
- 7,576,830 Configurable Flat Panel Image to Film Transfer Method and Apparatus
- 7,787,010 Video to Film Flat Panel Digital Recorder and Method
- 8,233,693 Automatic Print and Negative Verification Method and Apparatus
- 8,368,700 Animatronics Animation Method and Apparatus
- 8,502,909 Super Light-Field Lens
References
- Raymond Fielding, "The Technique of Special Effects Cinematography" (4th edition 1985) ISBN 0-240-51234-0page 405
- Michael Hiltzik, "Dealers of Lightning Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age" (1999) ISBN 0-88730-891-0page 240
- John Markoff, "What the Dormouse Said, How the 60's Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" (2005) ISBN 0-670-03382-0, Xerox Parc, pages 241-42, 248, 251-53
- David Price, "The Pixar Touch" (2008) ISBN 978-0-307-26575-3pages 22,24, 36, 34, 38, 54, 68, 75,104,137
- Michael Rubin, "droidMaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution" (2005) ISBN 0-937404-67-5pages 119-120, 141, 152-153, 200-201, 225-226, 253, 264, 370, 371, 502