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Silicon Graphics and the Workstation Culture That Industrialized Real-Time 3D

Silicon Graphics turned Stanford's Geometry Engine research into a workstation company whose specialized graphics pipelines, programming libraries and professional systems made interactive 3D an industrial tool.

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Catmull-Clark Subdivision and the Mathematics of Smooth Digital Surfaces

Catmull-Clark subdivision generalized B-spline refinement to polygon meshes of arbitrary topology, giving digital artists a coarse control cage for smooth surfaces.

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