Paul E. Haeberli is an American

computer graphics Computer graphics deals with generating images with the aid of computers. Today, computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great de ...

programmer and researcher.

Biography

Paul Haeberli studied for a

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degree in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

at the

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, United States. Haeberli was recruited by

James H. Clark James Henry Clark (born March 23, 1944) is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. He founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Netscape, myCFO, and Healtheon. His research work in comput ...

to join

Silicon Graphics Silicon Graphics, Inc. (stylized as SiliconGraphics before 1999, later rebranded SGI, historically known as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) was an American high-performance computing manufacturer, producing computer hardware and sof ...

during the company's founding. Haeberli's early work included code, developed with David J. Brown and Mark Grossman, for SGI's first product – the Iris1000. Between 1983–1999, Haeberli continued at Silicon Graphics in

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He worked on the early MEX window system for Silicon Graphics workstations. He was also involved in

non-photorealistic rendering Non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) is an area of computer graphics that focuses on enabling a wide variety of expressive style (visual arts), styles for digital art, in contrast to traditional computer graphics, which focuses on photorealism. NPR ...

(NPR) techniques in computer graphics, producing software to implement this approach. He devised the

Silicon Graphics Image Silicon Graphics Image (SGI) or the RGB file format is the native raster graphics file format for Silicon Graphics workstations. The format was invented by Paul Haeberli. It can be run-length encoded (RLE). FFmpeg and ImageMagick, among othe ...

(SGI) format for graphics files. Later, he became an initial member of the research team at Silicon Graphics. After Silicon Graphics, Haeberli joined

Shutterfly Shutterfly, LLC. is an American photography, photography products, and image sharing company, headquartered in Redwood City, California. The company is mainly known for custom photo printing services, including books featuring user-provided im ...

, where he developed much of the online technology and image-processing foundations for the system that Shutterfly later employed in production. Subsequently he founded

Lamina Design Paul E. Haeberli is an American computer graphics programmer and researcher. Biography Paul Haeberli studied for a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States. Haeberli was recruit ...

, which allows freeform structures to be constructed from sheet material using computer-based techniques. The company is based in

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.Building Free-Form Structures From Sheet MaterialLamina Design

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