Henri Gouraud

Who is Henri Gouraud?

Henri Gouraud is a French computer scientist. He is the inventor of Gouraud shading used in computer graphics. He is the great nephew of general Henri Gouraud.

During 1964–1967, he studied at École Centrale Paris. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah College of Engineering in 1971, working with Dave Evans and Ivan Sutherland, for a dissertation entitled Computer Display of Curved Surfaces.

The famous human face images showing the effect of his shading were done using his wife Sylvie Gouraud as the model.