80th ceremony (2007) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Digital Imaging Technology

This system allows artists to create realistic animation of liquids and gases using novel simulation techniques for accuracy and speed, as well as a unique scripting language for working with volumetric data.

80th ceremony (2007) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Digital Imaging Technology

This system is used to create simulations of gaseous phenomena integrated into the widely available Maya tool suite, using an unconditionally stable semi-Lagrangian solver.

80th ceremony (2007) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Digital Imaging Technology

Flowline is a flexible system that incorporates highly parallel computation, allowing rapid iteration and resulting in detailed, realistic fluid effects.

80th ceremony (2007) AWARD OF COMMENDATION
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By coordinating and conducting tests for and with the industry, and by sharing results openly, Mr. Erland clearly demonstrated the value and effectiveness of independent research and industry-wide cooperation.

80th ceremony (2007) JOHN A. BONNER MEDAL OF COMMENDATION
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79th ceremony (2006) JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD
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79th ceremony (2006) GORDON E. SAWYER AWARD
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79th ceremony (2006) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
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Laboratory

With elements that may be recombined either digitally or optically, the Rosetta Separations process offers a uniquely great versatility in achieving high-quality results for digital YCM archiving.

79th ceremony (2006) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
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Digital Imaging Technology

This highly integrated system facilitates interactive construction and editing of 3D models from digital photographs and addresses the three-dimensional scanning needs of motion pictures in unique and innovative ways.

79th ceremony (2006) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
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Digital Imaging Technology

The Furnace toolset's modularity, flexibility and robustness has set a high standard of quality for optical flow-based image manipulation.

79th ceremony (2006) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
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Photography

Pioneering unprecedented reliability and flexibility in wireless lens and camera operation, the FI+Z has continued to be a leader in innovation since its introduction in 1994.

79th ceremony (2006) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Laboratory

The TDI process is based on the production of digital separation negatives creating archival elements that can be scanned and digitally recombined in the future.

79th ceremony (2006) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Laboratory

The E-Film process is based on the production of digital separation negatives creating archival elements that can be scanned and digitally recombined in the future.

79th ceremony (2006) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Sound

The Brumagic MPST was designed specifically to measure density in the motion picture soundtrack and has become the densitometer of choice for reading soundtrack negative and positive densities worldwide.

79th ceremony (2006) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Camera

Designed for handheld photography, the features of this small, lightweight MOS camera also allow it to be used as a secondary production camera.

79th ceremony (2006) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Digital Imaging Technology

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.

79th ceremony (2006) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Photography

This highly modular system permits accurate and reliable wireless control with multiple hand controls of all lens functions.

79th ceremony (2006) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Photography

The graphical user interface of the cmotion System eases the difficult task of following focus, and the unique lens tag system recalls the calibration for each lens.

79th ceremony (2006) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Digital Imaging Technology

A unique user interface and relatively low cost have made these tools ubiquitous in the visual effects community.

79th ceremony (2006) JOHN A. BONNER MEDAL OF COMMENDATION
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