Achievements
- In 1995 he was awarded (with others) the Academy Scientific and Engineering Award for his work on digital image compositing. With Bill Reeves he designed the first version of Pixar's Marionette 3-D animation system, which won the same award in 1997.
- While working at Lucasfilm, he created Duff's device, a loop-unrolling mechanism in C.
- On August 22, 2006, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent 7,095,409 to Pixar for a "Shot shading method and apparatus" invented by Tom Duff and Robert L. Cook.
- On October 31, 2006, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent 7,129,940 to Pixar for a "Shot rendering method and apparatus" invented by Tom Duff and Robert L. Cook.
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