France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France.... computer scientist
Computer scientist
A computer scientist is a person who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems.... . He is the inventor
Inventor
An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method, form, device or other useful means. The word inventor comes form the latin verb invenire, invent-, to find.... of Gouraud shading
Gouraud shading
Gouraud shading,named after Henri Gouraud , is a method used in computer graphics to simulate the differing effects of light and colour across the surface of an object.... used in computer graphics
Computer graphics
Computer graphics are graphics created by computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of pictorial data by a computer.... .
?cole Centrale Paris is a renowned French university-level institution in the field of engineering. It is also known by its original name ?cole centrale des arts et manufactures, or ECP.... . He received his Ph.D. at the University of Utah
University of Utah
The University of Utah is a public university research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. One of ten institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education and Utah's premier research school currently enrolls 21,526 undergraduate and 6,684 graduate student students and has 1,419 regular Faculty members.... in 1971, working with Dave Evans
David C. Evans
David C. Evans was the founder of the computer science department at University of Utah and co-founder of Evans & Sutherland, a computer firm which is known as a pioneer in the domain of Computer-generated imagery.... and Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Edward Sutherland is an United States computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers.... , for a dissertation entitled .
The famous human face images showing the effect of his shading were done using his wife Sylvie Gouraud as the model.
