Pixar Photoscience Team

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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

Awards

  • Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
    Scientific 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) page 405
  • Michael Hiltzik, "Dealers of Lightning Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age" (1999) page 240
  • John Markoff, "What the Dormouse Said, How the 60's Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" (2005) , Xerox Parc, pages 241-42, 248, 251-53
  • David Price, "The Pixar Touch" (2008) pages 22,24, 36, 34, 38, 54, 68, 75,104,137
  • Michael Rubin, "droidMaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution" (2005) pages 119-120, 141, 152-153, 200-201, 225-226, 253, 264, 370, 371, 502

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