John Turner Whitted is an electrical engineer and computer scientist who introduced recursive ray tracing to the computer graphics community with his 1979 paper An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display. His algorithm proved to be a practical method of simulating global illumination, inspired many variations, and remains in wide use today. He received the ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award in 2013.
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Wikidata P166: ACM Fellow
Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Fellow.
Wikidata alias: John Turner Whitted
John Turner Whitted
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