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David DiFrancesco, (born 1949), is a photoscientist, inventor, cinematographer, and photographer. He is a founding member of three organizations which pioneered computer graphics for digital special effects and film〔(Disney Research Article on David DiFrancesco )〕 with Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith, including; New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab, Lucasfilm Computer Division, and Pixar Animation Studios, financed by Steve Jobs.〔^ "Pixar Founding Documents". Alvyray.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-16. Retrieved 2010-04-19〕 ==Life and career== As director of the Pixar Photoscience Team at Pixar Animation Studios, DiFrancesco and his team were responsible for the task of accurately transferring high resolution digital images to film. In this role, he developed the world's first laser scanning and recording devices for 35mm motion picture film 〔Daily Variety, Pixar Develops Laser Recording System by Marc Graser, February 9, 1999, page 6 (on line)〕 and established reliable, commercially successful methods for this process, called PixarVision.〔(Pixar Develops "PIXARVISION" Laser Recording System for Film; David DiFrancesco wins Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award )〕〔(Pixar Develops 'Pixarvision' Laser Recording System for Film )〕 This pioneering work earned him two Scientific and Engineering Technical Academy Awards and 13 patents.〔(Pixar's "Our Story" website )〕〔Daily Variety, January 4, 1995, "Tech Oscars go to...," page 1 and 44.〕 In 1996 the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers adopted his recommended practices for governing output of digital images to film. Before that DiFrancesco worked at Computer Image Corp., working on Scanimate with Lee Harrison, and also at Xerox PARC with Dick Shoup working on the first 8-bit shift register framebuffer technology, and at JPL with Jim Blinn working on Carl Sagan's Cosmos Series. His prototype film recorder resides in the permanent apparatus collection of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. His recent research included the development of a prototype interchangeable light field〔(Plenoptic )〕 lens for motion picture cameras that enables post-production re-focusing of motion picture images and the capturing of 3D motion pictures with a single lens and camera.〔(FXGuide Article on Alvy Ray Smith )〕 In 2004, DiFrancesco designed a custom LED-based strobiscopic lighting system to sync the animation of physical Pixar Toy Story characters in the Pixar Zoetrope, first shown at the Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with (20th Anniversary exhibit ).〔(Pixar: 20 Years of Animation )〕 The original Pixar Zoetrope has travelled the world to various museums and several other zoetropes are on display at Disneyland’s California Adventure theme park in Southern California and other Disney theme parks. DiFrancesco’s technical knowledge with zoetropes was put into use on a two-minute film entitled “Forza/Filmspeed,” directed by Jeff Zwart. The film revealed the world’s fastest Zoetrope in the form of a high resolution still images taken from the Xbox game Forza Motorsport 5. Stills from the game were printed onto panels and staged at key intervals around a Barber Motorsports Park race track to recreate the illusion of movement known as the persistence of vision.〔Forza/Filmspeed Zoetrope〕 As a photographer, DiFrancesco’s work has been displayed at the MoMa in New York City, the Yale University Library collection, V&A CG collection London, England and in a number of private collections. He holds a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Superior, attended the Danish Film Institute and the MFA program at the University of Colorado. In 2000, he was awarded an honorary PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Superior.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wisconsin.edu/bor/minutes/bor/2000/february.htm )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David DiFrancesco」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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