Bùi Tường Phong
Bùi Tường Phong (born December 14, 1942 in Hanoi ; † 1975 ) was a computer graphic artist from Vietnam who invented the Phong lighting model named after him and the phong shading technique .
Life
Phong attended French schools in Hanoi and, after the family moved there in 1954, in Saigon . From 1964 he studied at the Technical University in Grenoble (École d'Ingénieur de Grenoble) with a licentiate degree in 1966, after which he obtained a degree in engineering in Toulouse . He then worked on operating systems at the Institut de Recherche d'Ingénieur et d'Automatique (IRIA). Phong was from 1971 research assistant at the American University of Utah with Professors David Evans and Ivan Sutherland . He suffered from leukemia during his dissertation and died two years after receiving his Ph.D. (1973) on this disease.
He had been married since 1969 and had one daughter.
literature
- Bui Tuong Phong: Illumination of Computer-Generated Images. Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, UTEC-CSs-73-129, July 1973 (PhD thesis).
- Bui Tuong Phong: Illumination for Computer Generated Pictures. Communications of the ACM 18,6 (Jun. 1975): 311-317, ISSN 0001-0782
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bùi Tường Phong |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bui Tuong Phong |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Vietnamese computer graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanoi |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1975 |