Pierre Bézier
About Pierre Bézier
Affiliations
- Ecole des Artes et Metiers
Location
- France
Bio
(1 September 1910 – 25 November 1999)
Pierre Bézier was a French engineer and one of the founders of the fields of solid, geometric and physical modelling as well as in the field of representing curves, especially in computer-aided design and manufacturing systems. As an engineer at Renault, he became a leader in the transformation of design and manufacturing, through mathematics and computing tools, into computer-aided design and three-dimensional modeling.Bézier patented and popularized the Bézier curves and Bézier surfaces that are now used in most computer-aided design and computer graphics systems.
Awards and Recognition
- SIGGRAPH 1985 Steven Anson Coons Award: Bézier
Other Information
Roles
- Awardee
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