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I agree this is ridiculous. Anyone in computer graphics knows his name.

People don't know his life story just because he was the first to interpolate normals between the vertices of triangles for smooth shading and created an exponential falloff for a highlight.

If he didn't do that first, someone else would have done it pretty quickly after, but in the 70s 3D computer graphics was so niche there were only a few people in the world with access to enough memory to hold a single color image.

Also the title saying he made toy story possible is ridiculous clickbait. He had nothing to do with toy story and it came many years after his work.

Not only that toy story was done with renderman and curved patches that were broken down into pixel sized polygons with highlights that were probably similar to blinn, so it's actually an example of phong interpolation and shading not being used.

This is overall terrible journalism that makes distant connections to pop culture for clickbait.