Henri Gouraud (computer scientist)

Henri Gouraud (born 1944) is a French computer scientist. He is the inventor of Gouraud shading in computer graphics.

During the 1964-1967 period he studied at École Centrale Paris.

The famous human face images showing the effect of his shading were done taking his wife Sylvie Gouraud as model.

External link

• http://www.univ-reims.fr/Labos/LERI/Afig99/biographie.html (bio written by a computer graphics researcher at ECP)