Steven Alexander Rutt (February 26, 1945 – May 20, 2011) was an American
engineer
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who in 1972, along with
Bill Etra William Etra (March 27, 1947 – August 26, 2016) was a live video pioneer and the co-inventor (with Steve Rutt) of the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer.
Etra was born in Manhattan and raised in Lawrence, Nassau County, New York.
Etra worked briefly as ...
, co-created an early video animation synthesizer, the
Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer
The Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer is an analog raster manipulation device for image processing and real-time animation. The Rutt/Etra was co-invented by Steve Rutt
Steven Alexander Rutt (February 26, 1945 – May 20, 2011) was an American engineer ...
. His equipment was used in the early pioneering synthesized animation for the 1976
Academy Award
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winning movie
Network
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.
Steve Rutt, an Inventor Behind Early Video Animation, Dies at 66.
He was the founder of Rutt Video & Interactive, a Manhattan-based video post-production studio
RVI.com. There, he mentored and employed numbers of SVA students, alumni and faculty members for over three decades, and provided editing services for many famous musicians and filmmakers.
Steve Rutt was born in Manhattan on Feb. 26, 1945, and spent his childhood in Great Neck, Long Island. He is the father of Victoria Mara Rutt.
Early life and childhood
Education
Career
Death
Rutt died on May 20, 2011, in
New York City, New York,
New York of
pancreatic cancer.
References
External links
*
Homepage for Rutt Video & Interactive
1945 births
2011 deaths
Engineers from New York City
People from Manhattan
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Deaths from cancer in New York (state)
People from Great Neck, New York
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