The artist caressed the velvety crimson rose with his brush, adding a subtle dimension of color. No painter’s palette his medium. At his hand, a primitive digital tablet and stylus with which he ...

I was only a few pages into Alvy Ray Smith’s new book, A Biography of the Pixel, when I realized that all of my preconceptions about what it might be were wrong. A legend of computer graphics, Smith ...

In a book by Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith, the humble pixel gets the attention it deserves. The computer scientist Alvy Ray Smith cofounded both Lucasfilm’s computer graphics division and Pixar ...

Visual media has come a long way since the first proto-human cave dwellers used the flickering of torch light to bring the hand-drawn art on their walls to life. Today, the pixel — despite its humble, ...

On March 28, 1990, Pixar cofounder Alvy Ray Smith presented at the monthly general meeting of the Boston Computer Society. He was there to talk about Pixar’s RenderMan rendering software. But the talk ...

After bringing hundreds of years of overall imaging history to life, this book ultimately does a deep dive into the complete “biography” of the pixel. I first met Alvy Ray Smith III during my freshman ...

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) announced today the full lineup for the Digital Media Symposium (DiMe), to be held Friday, Feb. 17 at the St Julien ...

PORT ANGELES — The inaugural lecture of the First Fed Community Conversations will be with Alvy Ray Smith, co-founder of Pixar, on Monday. First Fed is partnering with Field Arts & Events Hall at 201 ...

In a Boston Computer Society talk, Pixar cofounder Alvy Ray Smith explored the past, present, and future of the company well before it became a legend. Alvy Ray Smith is out to change how you think ...