Alvy Ray Smith (born 1943) is an American filmmaker and cartoonist co-founder of Pixar.
The first computer tools I used to make art, the first tool I used, was Alvy Ray Smith's paint system, and it was 24 bits of color, it was full color.
Darcy Gerbarg, 1980s Computer Art: Mark Wilson, David Em, Dan Sandin
Later on, the term visualization took off. This is a term that Alvy Ray Smith first started using to describe voxels.
Tom DeFanti, Tom DeFanti and Dan Sandin on Playing Images