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Along with Ivan Sutherland he did a lot of foundational work in computer graphics. His PhD was 32 pages, describing this algorithm.

Direct link to PhD thesis:

It's a bit sad that the rendered images later on are posterized to the point of being unreadable.

Both at U of U, with all the other founders of computer graphics: Jim Clark, Jim Blinn, Ed Catmull, ...