J.F. Blinn

7.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
100 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

J.F. Blinn is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, J.F. Blinn has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 33 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 29 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in J.F. Blinn's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (38 papers), Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (19 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (15 papers). J.F. Blinn is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (38 papers), Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (19 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (15 papers). J.F. Blinn collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and British Virgin Islands. J.F. Blinn's co-authors include Martin E. Newell, Alvy Ray Smith, Turner Whitted, Loren Carpenter, Don P. Mitchell, Bill Hill, John Platt, Alan H. Barr, Nelson Max and Andrew Witkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Graphics and IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.

In The Last Decade

J.F. Blinn

95 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Generalization of Algebraic Surface Drawing

1982 742 citations J.F. Blinn profile →
Models of light reflection for computer synthesized pictures

1977 661 citations J.F. Blinn profile →
Texture and reflection in computer generated images

1976 516 citations J.F. Blinn et al. profile →
Simulation of wrinkled surfaces

1978 489 citations J.F. Blinn profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
J.F. Blinn United States	23	3.3k	2.7k	2.3k	317	289	100	4.8k
James T. Kajiya United States	20	3.9k 1.2×	3.2k 1.2×	2.3k 1.0×	211 0.7×	230 0.8×	30	4.8k
Paul S. Heckbert United States	25	4.3k 1.3×	4.0k 1.5×	3.2k 1.4×	422 1.3×	318 1.1×	41	6.9k
François X. Sillion France	33	2.7k 0.8×	2.6k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	467 1.5×	304 1.1×	83	4.1k
Tomoyuki Nishita Japan	34	2.7k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	219 0.7×	192 0.7×	196	3.9k
Henrik Wann Jensen United States	40	4.7k 1.4×	3.7k 1.3×	2.5k 1.1×	234 0.7×	520 1.8×	116	6.0k
Turner Whitted United States	21	2.2k 0.7×	1.9k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	143 0.5×	141 0.5×	47	3.1k
Nelson Max United States	31	2.9k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	114 0.4×	99 0.3×	155	3.9k
Bruno Lévy France	34	4.2k 1.3×	2.0k 0.7×	4.5k 1.9×	265 0.8×	82 0.3×	98	6.5k
Greg Humphreys United States	21	1.7k 0.5×	1.8k 0.7×	717 0.3×	188 0.6×	157 0.5×	37	3.2k
Loren Carpenter United States	13	2.7k 0.8×	2.4k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	86 0.3×	84 0.3×	21	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by J.F. Blinn

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Fields of papers citing papers by J.F. Blinn

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of J.F. Blinn

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of J.F. Blinn. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of J.F. Blinn based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with J.F. Blinn. J.F. Blinn is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Kugler, Patrick, et al.. (2012). A wireless trigger for synchronization of wearable sensors to external systems during recording of human gait. PubMed. 2012. 4537–4540. 12 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (2007). How to Solve a Cubic Equation, Part 5: Back to Numerics. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 27(3). 78–89. 13 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (2007). How to Solve a Cubic Equation, Part 4: The 111 Case. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 27(1). 100–103. 5 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (2006). How to solve a cubic equation. Part 1. The shape of the discriminant. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 26(3). 84–93. 10 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (2006). How to solve a quadratic equation. Part 2. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 26(2). 82–87. 7 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (2006). How to Solve a Cubic Equation, Part 3: General Depression and a New Covariant. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 26(6). 92–102. 3 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (2006). How to Solve a Cubic Equation, Part 2: The 11 Case. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 26(4). 90–100. 7 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (2005). User Interface Stories from the Real World. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 25(1). 92–93. 1 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (2005). Vectors and geometry and objects, oh my!. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 25(3). 84–93. 2 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (2005). What Is a Pixel?. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 25(5). 82–87. 15 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (2004). Lines in space Part 6: Our friend the hyperbolic paraboloid. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 24(3). 92–100. 4 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (2004). Lines in Space, Part 8: Line(s) through Four Lines. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 24(5). 100–106. 3 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (2004). Lines in space. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 24(4). 96–102. 2 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (1994). Quantization error and dithering. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 14(4). 78–82. 10 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (1993). NTSC: nice technology, super color. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 13(2). 17–23. 11 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (1990). Jim Blinn's corner-wonderful world of video (animation). IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 10(3). 83–87. 2 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (1989). The making of The Mechanical Universe. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 138–155. 3 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (1988). Me and My (Fake) Shadow. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 8(1). 82–86. 48 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Loren, et al.. (1988). Scan line methods for displaying parametrically defined surfaces. 94–105. 2 indexed citations

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Blinn, J.F.. (1977). A homogeneous formulation for lines in 3 space. 237–241. 20 indexed citations

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