July 26, Thursday, 7-9 p.m. -- Tony DeRose, senior scientist and research group leader at Pixar Animation Studios, will speak about "Math in the Movies." He will discuss how advances in math and ...

He can’t take us to infinity and beyond for real, but Buzz Lightyear will be happy to greet us on the fourth floor of the Science Museum of the Minnesota this summer. Buzz, Dory and their ...

Tony DeRose, a resident computer nerd at Pixar, said today that much of their work while creating new films requires the creation of new math. The problem is that human skin, for example, goes through ...

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It can be easy to think that you need math only to do your algebra or geometry homework or if you have a job as an engineer. But, in fact, math pops up everywhere – even in the soap bubbles in your ...

Pixar gets a lot of credit for movies that carry emotional weight, superb art direction, and a seriousness of purpose that have helped elevate CGI storytelling in general (Cars 2 notwithstanding).

Ka Chun Yu is a scientist, dang it, not an entertainer. As the Ph.D. curator of space science at Denver Museum of Nature & Science, he specializes in plunging wide-eyed visitors into virtual ...