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Florian Kainz
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Florian Kainz
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Florian Kainz appears in the Lunara Oscar Ledger with 4 nominations and 4 wins across 4 ceremonies.
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4
Wins
4
Span
1996–2013
Films
0
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Detail: Digital Imaging Technology
Citation: To FLORIAN KAINZ, JEFFERY YOST, PHILIP HUBBARD and JIM HOURIHAN for the architecture and development of the Zeno application framework.
Note: For more than a decade, Zeno's flexible and robust design has allowed the creation of a broad range of Academy Award-winning visual effects toolsets at ILM.
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Detail: Digital Imaging Technology
Citation: To FLORIAN KAINZ for the design and development of the robust, highly scalable distributed architecture of the ObaQ render queue management system.
Note: ObaQ has scaled from managing a few hundred processors in 1997 to many thousands today, with minimal changes to the original design.
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Detail: Digital Imaging Technology
Citation: To FLORIAN KAINZ for the design and engineering of OpenEXR, a software package implementing 16-bit, floating point, high dynamic range image files.
Note: Widely adopted, OpenEXR is engineered to meet the requirements of the visual effects industry by providing for lossless and lossy compression of tiered and tiled images.
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Detail: Special Photographic
Citation: To JEFFERY YOST, CHRISTIAN ROUET, DAVID BENSON and FLORIAN KAINZ for the development of a system to create and control computer generated fur and hair in motion pictures.
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