Robert L. Cook
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Pixar Animation Studios, Light Source Computer Images, Inc., California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Vice President of Advanced Technology
Other / Past Affiliation(s):
- Lucasfilm, Computer Division
Location:
- Emeryville, California, United States of America
Experience Category: Organizing Committee Chair:
Learning Category: Organizing Committee Chair:
Course Organizer:
- SIGGRAPH 1986, "State of the Art in Image Synthesis"
- SIGGRAPH 1987, "Computer Graphics and the Sciences"
- SIGGRAPH 1988, "Computer Graphics in Science"
- SIGGRAPH 1985, "Image Rendering Tricks"
Experience Category: Jury Member:
Learning Category: Jury Member:
Award(s):
- SIGGRAPH 1987 Computer Graphics Achievement Award: Cook
- SIGGRAPH 2009 Steven Anson Coons Award: Cook
Artwork(s):
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
Type: [Technical Papers]
Stochastic simplification of aggregate detail Presenter(s): [Cook] [Halstead] [Planck] [Ryu]
[SIGGRAPH 2007]
Type: [Courses]
Computer Graphics in Science Organizer(s): [Cook]
Presenter(s): [Cook] [Olson] [Nathan] [Barr] [Fangmeier] [Stephenson]
Entry No.: [20]
Type: [Courses]
Computer Graphics and the Sciences Organizer(s): [Cook]
Presenter(s): [Cook] [Barr] [Blinn] [Carpenter] [Drebin] [Haber] [Olson]
Entry No.: [27]
[SIGGRAPH 1987]
Type: [Courses]
Introduction to Ray Tracing Presenter(s): [Cook] [Glassner] [Haines] [Hanrahan] [Heckbert] [Speer]
Entry No.: [13]
[SIGGRAPH 1987]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Rendering antialiased shadows with depth maps Presenter(s): [Reeves] [Salesin] [Cook]
[SIGGRAPH 1987]
Type: [Technical Papers]
The Reyes image rendering architecture Presenter(s): [Cook] [Carpenter] [Catmull]
[SIGGRAPH 1987]
Type: [Courses]
Developments in Ray Tracing Organizer(s): [Barr]
Presenter(s): [Barr] [Arvo] [Inakage] [Kajiya] [Blinn] [Cook] [Whitted]
Entry No.: [12]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
Type: [Courses]
Image Rendering Tricks Organizer(s): [Whitted]
Presenter(s): [Whitted] [Cook] [Hall] [Blinn] [Carpenter]
Entry No.: [16]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
Type: [Courses]
State of the Art in Image Synthesis Organizer(s): [Cook]
Presenter(s): [Cook] [Crow] [Duff] [Barr] [Greenberg]
Entry No.: [15]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
Type: [Courses]
Image Rendering Tricks Organizer(s): [Cook]
Presenter(s): [Blinn] [Carpenter] [Chuang] [Cook] [Whitted]
Entry No.: [12]
[SIGGRAPH 1985]
Type: [Courses]
State of the Art in Image Synthesis Organizer(s): [Stock]
Presenter(s): [Beier] [Berlin] [Cook] [Gabriel] [Kaplan] [Perlin] [Stock]
Entry No.: [11]
[SIGGRAPH 1985]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Distributed ray tracing Presenter(s): [Cook] [Porter] [Carpenter]
[SIGGRAPH 1984]
Type: [Courses]
State-of-the-Art in Image Synthesis Organizer(s): [Catmull]
Presenter(s): [Catmull] [Blinn] [Cook] [Carpenter] [Stock]
Entry No.: [13]
[SIGGRAPH 1982]
Type: [Technical Papers]
A reflectance model for computer graphics Presenter(s): [Cook] [Torrance]
[SIGGRAPH 1981]
Type: [Courses]
Introduction to Raster Graphics Organizer(s): [Greenberg]
Presenter(s): [Greenberg] [Friedberg] [Woolf] [Dill] [Meyer] [Cook]
Entry No.: [F]
[SIGGRAPH 1981]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Synthetic texturing using digital filters Presenter(s): [Feibush] [Levoy] [Cook]
[SIGGRAPH 1980]
Learning Category: Moderator:
Type: [Technical Papers]
Comprehensible rendering of 3D shapes Presenter(s): [Saito] [Takahashi]
[SIGGRAPH 1990]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Direct WYSIWYG painting and texturing on 3D shapes Presenter(s): [Hanrahan] [Haeberli]
[SIGGRAPH 1990]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Paint by numbers: abstract image representations Presenter(s): [Haeberli]
[SIGGRAPH 1990]
Role(s):
- Animation Director
- Art Show Artist
- Awardee
- Computer Animation Jury Member
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
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