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Blain Rinehart (born February 4, 1989) is an American game programmer and the co-founder of Frostbyte Games. Rinehart was the lead programmer for the games Surge, Blainiac, and Threshold. Rinehart is best known for his innovations in fractal compression algorithms and artificial neural networks.

Early Years
Blain Rinehart was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Terry Rinehart and Melissa Majors. He became interested in computers while attending Sequoyah High School in Claremore. At the age of fifteen, he wrote games in TI-BASIC for the TI-83 calculator during class and learned the programming language Blitz BASIC, a high-level language targeted specifically for game development. He later studied computer science at Oklahoma State University.

While attending college, Rinehart collaborated with Parth Dalal on the Flash game Leadership, allowing the team that contracted them to win the 2007 Leadership Conference. This was the first of many professional collaborations with Parth Dalal.

Programming Techniques
Blain Rinehart is well known for his 'street-style' ad-hoc programming style, which has garnished him credence within many programming communities. An extremely specialized fractal compression algorithm utilizing the Rinehart-Dalal equation they developed during his stay at Oklahoma State University gained significant attention from various software companies.