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Paul Debevec, a Common card
Paul Ernest Debevec is a researcher in computer graphics at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 48
- DEF
- 20
- Power
- 68
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,400
Power 68 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 10 % of WikiCards cards.
Paul Debevec quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Paul Debevec card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In 1997 he and a team of students produced The ______ Movie, a virtual flyby of UC Berkeley's Campanile tower.
Answer
Campanile. In 1997 he and a team of students produced The Campanile Movie, a virtual flyby of UC Berkeley's Campanile tower. From the Paul Debevec article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Boundary Treaty of 1970. Boundary Treaty of 1970 51 · Paul Debevec 48 · Lattice degeneration 45 · Cellulose acetate butyrate 41 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is best known for his work in finding, capturing and synthesizing the bidirectional scattering distribution function utilizing the light stages his research team constructed to find and capture the reflectance field over the human face, high-dynamic-range imaging and image-based modeling and rendering.
- Debevec received his undergraduate degree in mathematics and engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in computer science from University of California, Berkeley in 1996, his thesis research was in photogrammetry, or the recovery of the 3D shape of an object from a collection of still photographs taken from various angles.
- In 1997 he and a team of students produced The Campanile Movie, a virtual flyby of UC Berkeley's Campanile tower.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Paul Debevec article was read about 6,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 48 and blocks with 20: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Paul Debevec (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : jmv ( en:User:Jason Vanderhill ), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
