John Platt


Academy Award Nominations (Winner marker =  winner  ):
Winner markerScientific and Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award). To John Platt and Demetri Terzopoulos for their pioneering work in physically-based computer-generated techniques used to simulate realistic cloth in motion pictures. Their 1987 paper “Elastically Deformable Models” was a milestone in computer graphics, introducing the concept of physically-based techniques to simulate moving, deforming objects.

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