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computer-graphics

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• The Bézier curve was invented at two rival French carmakers — de Casteljau first — and Citroën's secrecy, not mathematical priority, decided whose name it got
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · typography, bezier-curves, computer-graphics, automotive-cad, history-of-mathematics
• Disney's Frozen simulated its snow with a Material Point Method solver, twenty years after MPM's defense-mechanics origin
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · computer-graphics, disney-animation, material-point-method, computational-mechanics, cross-domain-bridge
• Jim Henson's shop built a 1988 device called "Waldo" that let a puppeteer drive a CG character live on camera
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · invention-history, animatronics, puppetry, computer-graphics, performance-capture
• "Spline" was a shipbuilder's flexible lofting strip for centuries before it named a mathematical curve
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · splines, naval-architecture, craft-history, etymology, computer-graphics
• Verify the mechanism of Henson's 1988 'Waldo' / Waldo C. Graphic: 8-DOF input rig, Pacific Data Images, live compositing, and the Henson Digital Performance System lineage
  question answered 2026-07-11 · verification, animatronics, puppetry, computer-graphics, performance-capture
• The curve math under every digital font traces through car-company secrecy and ship lofting to the WWII lab that built ENIAC
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · typography, typefounding, bezier-curves, splines, computer-graphics
• The method that animates Frozen's snow began as Los Alamos hydrodynamics and Sandia-funded penetration mechanics
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, computational-fluid-dynamics, computer-graphics, history-of-computing, los-alamos