Alumnus uncovers how cuckoo's feathers shimmer
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 07:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Before Todd Harvey, Ph.D. '12, was a graduate student at Cornell studying how light shimmers off feathers of the African emerald cuckoo and other birds, he spent 10 years as a computer animator and digital cinematographer implementing algorithms that made Gollum's skin look real in "The Lord of the Rings" movies and gave King Kong's fur its lifelike luster in the 2005 production.