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Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff
Tom Duff in his office at Pixar
Born
(1952-12-08) December 8, 1952 (age 71)
Toronto
Nationality
Canadian
Occupation
Computer programmer
Years active
1974-2021
Known for
Animation software
Notable work
Duff's device
Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff (born December 8, 1952) is a Canadian computer programmer.
Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff (born December 8, 1952) is a Canadian computer programmer. Duff was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and was named for his...
reflectance/transmittance model in 1981. A 1984 paper by Thomas Porter and TomDuff introduced premultiplied alpha using a geometrical approach. The use of...
privileged lobby channel for religious organisations". McGuinness is married to TomDuff, a sheep farmer. The couple have four children. Gabriela Baczynska and...
Howard Green Duff (November 24, 1913 – July 8, 1990) was an American actor. Duff was born in Charleston, Washington (today a part of Bremerton), in 1913...
Hilary Duff, Christopher Lowell, Francia Raisa, Suraj Sharma, Tom Ainsley, Tien Tran, and Kim Cattrall, follows the main character, Sophie (Duff), and...
default shell on Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Version 10 Unix written by TomDuff. Ports have been made to various Unix-like operating systems. scsh – A...
and Bill Reeves, who had been part of the team since the days of NYIT. TomDuff, also an NYIT member, would later join Pixar after its formation. With...
microcontrollers where other solutions are impractical or less desirable. TomDuff, of Duff's device fame, had this to say about the shortcomings of the method:...
Jeffrey Adam "Duff" Goldman (born December 17, 1974) is an American businessman, pastry chef, television personality, and writer. He is the executive chef...
doi:10.1145/36206.36202. ISBN 0818608056. S2CID 18834615. Porter, Thomas; TomDuff (1984). "Compositing digital images". Proceedings of the 11th annual conference...
Minimal-Energy Clusters of Hard Spheres (with Neil Sloane, R. H. Hardin, and TomDuff). Discrete & Computational Geometry, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 237–259. 1996...
This is also the origin of the name of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs shell by TomDuff, the rc shell. It is called "rc" because the main job of a shell is to...
ksh. It is meant to be POSIX-compliant. rc was created at Bell Labs by TomDuff as a replacement for sh for Version 10 Unix. It is the default shell for...
developers have contributed to the project, including Brian Kernighan, TomDuff, Doug McIlroy, Bjarne Stroustrup and Bruce Ellis. Plan 9 replaced Unix...
Hilary Duff has embarked on during her professional career. The Metamorphosis Tour is the debut concert tour by the American pop singer Hilary Duff. The...
Urbana–Champaign 1966 4 39 Ken Wilburn Central State University 1966 5 49 TomDuff Saint Joseph's University 1966 6 59 Red Robbins University of Tennessee...
nanocentury is one-billionth of a century or approximately 3.156 seconds. TomDuff is cited as saying that, to within half a percent, a nanocentury is π seconds...