Round 3: Tossup 5

This company is the tenant of the most famous building named for Civil War battle surgeon Jonathan Letterman. While working for this company, Tom Duff interwove a do-while loop and a switch-case statement to invent a loop unrolling method in the C programming language. Grant Imahara began his career at this company, where Dennis Muren led a team that created a knight on stained glass for the film Young Sherlock Holmes. A division of this company created the (15[1])(*) OpenEXR file format and an environment that uses Unreal Engine to render imagery for a set of massive LED screens called the “Volume.” (10[1])This San Francisco-based company once owned a subsidiary with a theme called the “Deep Note.” A division of this company created a shot in which the T-1000 morphs through steel bars and was praised for realistically modelling Davy Jones’s face tentacles. For 10 points, Industrial Light & Magic is a division of what company (10[1])founded by the director of Star Wars? ■END■

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