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Encyclopedia > Brian Sharp

Brian Sharp (born March 3, 1980) is a computer game programmer. He attended Dartmouth College and came close to graduating before taking a job at Ion Storm Austin to work on the Deus Ex and Thief computer games there. March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Dartmouth College is a private academic institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. ... The Dallas Chase Tower Ion Storm Inc. ... Deus Ex (commonly abbreviated DX) is a first-person shooter/computer role-playing game developed by Ion Storm Inc. ... Thief is a series of mainly first-person computer games where the player takes the role of Garrett, a thief in a steampunk world resembling a cross between the Late Middle Ages and the Victorian era, with some primitive technology thrown in. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ...


A published writer for Game Developer Magazine, Sharp has contributed articles on higher-order surface representations, including Bézier patches, Subdivision Surfaces, and Implicit Surfaces. In addition, he is a regular presenter at the Game Developers Conference, where he holds a record of being the youngest person ever to give a talk. Game Developer magazine is a monthly periodical for the video game industry. ... A Bézier surface is a parametric tensor product surface defined by mathematical formulae, used in computer graphics, computer-aided design, and finite element modelling. ... In computer graphics, subdivision surfaces are used to create smooth surfaces out of arbitrary meshes. ... In mathematics and computer graphics, an implicit surface is defined as an isosurface of a function . In other words, it is the set of points in the 3d-space that satisfy the equation . To find a parametrisation of the surface (more precisely the solution set, since not all equations of... The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual gathering of video game developers. ...


Sharp has participated in each of the Indie Game Jams, including his contribution of a game based on yoga in 2004. The Indie Game Jam is an effort to rapid prototype video game designs and inject new ideas into the game industry. ... It has been suggested that Urban yoga be merged into this article or section. ...


Today, Sharp resides in San Francisco, California, where he is working on the Spore game. Nickname: The City by the Bay; Fog City Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: City-County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Area    - City 600. ... Spore is a simulation computer game designed by Will Wright. ...

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External links

  • Blue and Orange - Sharp's personal site

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Sharp's ideas are especially worthy of critical attention because they have been widely adopted by social activists as providing a theoretical underpinning for their own nonviolent actions.
Sharp defines political power, which is one type of social power, as 'the totality of means, influences, and pressures - including authority, rewards, and sanctions - available for use to achieve the objectives of the power-holder, especially the institutions of government, the State, and groups opposing either of them' (1980, p.
Sharp counterposes his analysis to the common idea that power is a monolithic entity residing in the person or position of a ruler or ruling body.
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Sharp, Margaret, Baroness Sharp of Guildford (born 1938), member of the British House of Lords
Sharp, Phillip Allen (born 1944), U.S. geneticist and molecular biologist
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