# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-blinn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:09:04.268Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-blinn"
name: "Jim Blinn"
slug: "jim-blinn"
description: "James F. Blinn is an American computer scientist who first became widely known for his work as a computer graphics expert at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), particularly his work on the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project, his work on the 1980 Carl Sagan documentary series Cosmos, and the research of the Blinn–Phong shading model."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim-blinn.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.49409866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://jimblinn.com"
sources:
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    title: "吉姆·布林"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "جیم بلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_F._Blinn"
    title: "James F. Blinn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Blinn"
    title: "Jim Blinn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "جیم بلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_F._Blinn"
    title: "James F. Blinn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blinn"
    title: "James Blinn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Blinn"
    title: "Jim Blinn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジム・ブリン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A7%90_%EB%B8%94%EB%A6%B0"
    title: "짐 블린"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blinn"
    title: "James Blinn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Blinn"
    title: "Jim Blinn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92989"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump