How is animation Pixar involved with the development of computers?

Answer 1

Pixar first began as a struggling computer company that manufactured the "Pixar computer". The computer was sold to hospitals for CAT scans. It was the highest end graphics computer of the day. It was later sold to Viacom. Ed Catmull also helped pioneer computer graphics at the University of Utah, where he invented the "catmull-clark" object smoothing parameter (without it, all graphics today would still look like blocks). Pixar continues to develop its Renderman software, an academy award winning rendering software. This software is renowned and is highly used in the special effects industry, and artist rendering.