Bui Tuong Phong

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Bui Tuong Phong (1942–1975) was a Vietnamese-born computer graphics researcher and pioneer. His works are most often indexed under his family name, Bui Tuong (from the Vietnamese Bùi Tường), which comes before his given name by Vietnamese name convention. But his inventions are remembered under his given name Phong.

Dr. Bui Tuong was the inventor of the Phong reflection model and the Phong shading interpolation method, techniques widely used in computer graphics. Bui Tuong published the description of the algorithms in his 1973 PhD dissertationBui Tuong Phong, Illumination of Computer-Generated Images, Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, UTEC-CSs-73-129, July 1973. and a 1975 paperBui Tuong Phong, "Illumination for Computer Generated Images," Comm. ACM, Vol 18(6):311-317, June 1975.. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1973.

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