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Pat Hanrahan, a Common card
Patrick M. Hanrahan is an American computer graphics researcher, the Canon USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 99
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 14,000
Power 99 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Pat Hanrahan quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Pat Hanrahan card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He has ______ numerous awards, including the 2019 Turing Award.
Answer
received. He has received numerous awards, including the 2019 Turing Award. From the Pat Hanrahan article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Marielle Thompson. Marielle Thompson 67 · Microfracture surgery 62 · Pat Hanrahan 59 · Zone plate 56 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing units, as well as scientific illustration and visualization.
- He has received numerous awards, including the 2019 Turing Award.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Pat Hanrahan article was read about 14,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Pat Hanrahan
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Pat Hanrahan in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Marielle ThompsonCommon · Society · ATK 67 DEF 32
- Microfracture surgeryCommon · Science · ATK 62 DEF 37
- Ng Ka LongCommon · Society · ATK 65 DEF 34
- René CassinCommon · History · ATK 60 DEF 39
- Rob StewartCommon · Arts · ATK 59 DEF 40
- Samuel J. PalmisanoCommon · Society · ATK 64 DEF 35
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Pat Hanrahan (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Francois Lamotte from Belgium, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
