CACM Jun. 2020 - 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award

Patrick Hanrahan and Edwin Catmull will receive the 2019 ACM Turing Award for fundamental contributions to 3-D computer graphics, and the revolutionary impact of these techniques on computer-generated imagery (CGI) in filmmaking and other applications. This Communications of the ACM feature chronicles how these two extraordinary innovators carved their paths in the earliest days of the computer graphics field, and worked together to create tools that would forever transform the way moving images are brought to life.