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FXGuide: Founders Series: [Computer Graphics] industry legend Jim Blinn

Back in the mumbledy-mumbles I remember sitting in the UTC library reading back issues of the IEEE magazine to absorb all of "Jim Blinn's Corner" notes on computer graphics. As I ducked back out of the CG world I lost track of what he was doing, but apparently ten years ago he published Notation, Notation, Notation, on the language of mathematics and how it changes thinking. I need to read that, especially since I particularly remember a conversation with brilliant mathematician and Pixar-ian Tony DeRose in which we were racing each other to a conclusion about a particular point of representing geometry, but it was clear that I was conceptualizing the issue completely differently from how Tony was. Even though we came to the same conclusion.

And I also think I need to both dig deeper into Jim Blinn's personal site.