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Phong, and his favorite game is Pong. Both became big names in computer graphics in the early 1970’s. Pong, created by Atari, was the first successful coin-operated video game. Mathematician Phong Bui-Tuong described a better method for shading polygons in the CACM in June 1975. His method produces more realistic images than Gourand shading.
