The Gouraud Shading Method for Polygon Smoothing is Developed

6/1971

Two orthagonal views of the author's wife used to input data into the computer.

In June 1971 Henri Gouraud of the University of Utah published "Computer display of curved surfaces" in IEEE Transactions in Computers. This described the Gouraud shading method for polygon smoothing, a scheme for continuous shading in computer graphics, which makes a surface composed of discrete polygons appear to be continuous.

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