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{{short description|American computer scientist}}
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| name                    = Franklin C. Crow
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| father                  = James F. Crow
| mother                  = Ann Crockett
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| occupation              = Computer scientist
| notable_works           = University of Texas<br/>[[Organization:Ohio State University|Ohio State University]]<br/>NYIT<br/>[[Company:Xerox|Xerox]]<br/>[[Company:PARC|PARC]]<br/>Apple<br/>[[Organization:Apple Advanced Technology Group|ATG]]<br/>Interval Research<br/>NVIDIA
| alma_mater              = [[Organization:University of Utah College of Engineering|University of Utah College of Engineering]]
| known_for               = Computer graphics
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'''Franklin C. (Frank) Crow''' is a computer scientist who has made important contributions to [[Computer graphics|computer graphics]], including some of the first practical [[Spatial anti-aliasing|spatial anti-aliasing]] techniques.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jlho9B95IRkC&pg=PA10 |title = Pro OpenGL ES for iOS|isbn = 9781430238416|last1 = Smithwick|first1 = Mike|date = 2012-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YA_vPBzFHxUC&q=%22frank+crow%22+aliasing |title = CG 101: A Computer Graphics Industry Reference|isbn = 9780735700468|last1 = Masson|first1 = Terrence|year = 1999}}</ref>  Crow also proposed the [[Shadow volume|shadow volume]] technique for generating geometrically accurate shadows.

==Education==
Crow studied [[Electrical engineering|electrical engineering]] at the [[Organization:University of Utah College of Engineering|University of Utah College of Engineering]] under [[Biography:Ivan Sutherland|Ivan Sutherland]], a pioneer in computer graphics.

==Career==
Crow taught at the University of Texas, NYIT and [[Organization:Ohio State University|Ohio State University]] and was involved with research at [[Company:Xerox|Xerox]] [[Company:PARC|PARC]], Apple Computer's [[Organization:Apple Advanced Technology Group|Advanced Technology Group]], and Interval Research.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/nyit/masson/nyit.html | title=Brief History of the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab}}</ref>

From 2001 to 2008, he worked for NVIDIA as a GPU architect designing rasterization algorithms.

== Publications ==
* "Parallel Computing for Graphics." ''Advances in Computer Graphics'', 1990:113-140.
* "Parallelism in rendering algorithms." in ''Graphics Interface'' 88, June 6–10, 1988, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. p.&nbsp;87-96
* "Advanced Image Synthesis - Anti-Aliasing." ''Advances in Computer Graphics'', 1985:419-440.
* "Advanced Image Synthesis - Surfaces." ''Advances in Computer Graphics'', 1985:457-467.
* "Computational Issues in Rendering Anti-Aliased Detail." ''COMPCON'', 1982:238-244.
* "Toward more complicated computer imagery." ''Computers & Graphics'', 5(2-4):61-69 (1980).
* "The Aliasing Problem in Computer-Generated Shaded Images." ''Commun. ACM'', 20(11):799-805 (1977).
* "Shadow Algorithms for Computer Graphics", ''Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH '77 Proceedings)'', vol. 11, no. 2, 242–248.

== See also ==
* [[Organization:University of Texas at Austin|University of Texas at Austin]]
* [[Texture mapping]]

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