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all together in one place, in a new field, and it was wide open.
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You could just go out and discover things and explore, you were right at the frontier.
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Ed's computer-animated film of his own left hand
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was the first step in the development of creating curved surfaces,
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wrapping texture around those surfaces, and eliminating jagged edges.
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The footage debuted years later in the science-fiction film Futureworld,
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which became the first use of
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3-D animation in a live-action film.
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Ed graduated with a PhD
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in a new technology ahead of its time.
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There was only one institution in the country
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willing to put millions of dollars into its further development.