[dahart]

> Is he like one of those “experts know he’s a big deal in his niche but non-experts never heard about him” kind of guys?

Depends on what you mean. Is Bezier famous enough, or are we talking Stephen Hawking or Billie Eilish famous? Only time will tell, and it’s too early to say. All the experts that non-experts have heard of started out being unknown.

Cem’s already very well known in the computer graphics community, at Siggraph for example. He’s doing active research and advising and graduating many students. He’s published quite a few papers on curve/hair rendering and simulation physics, with a tendency toward real-time & game applications. So most active graphics students and profs know of him, and outside academic graphics, a lot of game programmers have heard of him.

Maybe in 50 years, you’ll hear Yuksel curves as often as Bézier curves.