Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Franklin C. Crow


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The result was speedy keep. Withdrawn. The refs identified are enough to satisfy GNG, there is no point leaving this open a week. (non-admin closure) Szzuk (talk) 20:54, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Franklin C. Crow

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A computer programmer and researcher known for early computer graphics. There is just one ref in the article which is a trivial mention. Google is showing a few research publications related to his line of work. Tagged for notability since 2016. Fails GNG with no significant coverage. Szzuk (talk) 15:42, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 03:30, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Phil Bridger (talk) 10:46, 13 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Google Scholar reports two papers with over 1000 citations and four more with over 100, but in this field I believe that those are not exceptional numbers, although anywhere outside computer science they would be. Phil Bridger (talk) 10:46, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. There are plenty of book sources saying things like "Frank Crow developed the first practical method of anti-aliasing", "The first anti-aliasing methods were developed by Frank Crow" , or "A seminal work in rasterization and reconstruction with anti-aliasing was the doctoral dissertation of Frank Crow" . Anti-aliasing is a major topic in computer graphics and it appears that his work was very important. The two >1000-citation publications are on different topics where he also appears to have made important contributions, box blur for texture mapping (another book source: ) and using the stencil buffer for shadow generation (more book sources:   with quotes like "Frank Crow pioneered the development of shadow algorithms for computer graphics"). —David Eppstein (talk) 19:27, 13 January 2019 (UTC)


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