
Pixar’s Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules
Masters of Scale
The Radical Environment of a Graduate Class in New Technology
This exciting and unconventional graduate class pushed the boundaries of new technology, encouraging creativity and innovation. One student, Ed Katmull, decided to write his own software to create a model of his hand. Using a plaster Paris model and a grid, he digitized it and wrote a program to animate it. This groundbreaking work can be seen on YouTube, along with the work of Ed's fellow grad student, Fred Park.
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