# Claire Parker

> Claire Parker was an American engineer and animator. A graduate of MIT, she invented the Pinscreen, a vertically mounted grid of between 240,000 and 1 million sliding metal rods that are first manually pushed into position to create lit and shaded areas, then filmed frame by frame. While the hand-operated, mechanical Pinscreen superficially shares characteristics with early optical toys like the zoetrope, it is distinguished by being one of the first devices ever to produce animation by reconfiguring a set of individual picture elements, later called pixels. A model with sufficient pin "resolution" can be used to create a Pinscreen animation of photorealistic images, a painstaking process analogous to modern pixel art.

*American animator (1906-1981)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Movie Director ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Directors
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1906-08-31
- **Died:** 1981-10-03
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

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## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 41.0 / 100
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## Platforms
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## Sources
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