Martin Edward Newell | |
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Nationality | English American |
Alma mater | University of Utah |
Known for | Utah Teapot[1] Newell's algorithm |
Awards | Elected member of the National Academy of Engineering |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | CADCentre University of Utah Xerox PARC Ashlar Adobe |
Thesis | The Utilization of Procedure Models in Digital Image Synthesis (1975) |
Website | academic |
Martin Edward Newell is a British-born computer scientist who created the Utah teapot computer graphics model. He was graduated from University of Utah in 1975, and together with Tom Sancha developed Newell's algorithm, a technique for eliminating cyclic dependencies during polygon ordering in a computer graphics system. [2]