Bui Tuong Phong

Bùi Tường Phong ( born December 14, 1942 in Hanoi, † 1975) was a computer graphic artist from Vietnam who invented the eponymous Phong lighting model and the shading technique Phong shading.

Life

Phong attended French schools in Hanoi and after the family moved there in 1954 in Saigon. From 1964 he studied at the Technical University in Grenoble ( École d' Ingénieur de Grenoble) with the Lizenziatsabschluss 1966, after which he earned a diploma engineer degree in Toulouse. He then worked at the Institute de Recherche et d' Ingénieur d' Automatique ( IRIA ) of operating systems. Phong was from 1971 research assistant at the American University of Utah with Professors David Evans and Ivan Sutherland. He had been suffering during his dissertation on leukemia and died two years after receiving his Ph.D. (1973) from the disease.

He was married in 1969 and had a daughter.