10 Facts About Ken Silverman

Ken Silverman was born on November 1,1975 and is an American game programmer, best known for writing the Build engine.

Once considered the primary rival of John Carmack, Silverman started work on the Build engine sometime before his first semester at Brown University in 1993, under a contract with Apogee Software.

Ken Silverman has been CTO and co-founder of Ardfry Imaging, LLC responsible for the PNG Compression tool PNGOUT.

Ken Silverman is the founder and Chief Computer Scientist of VOXON, makers of the world's most advanced 3D volumetric display system.

Shortly after the Duke Nukem 3D source code was released in 2003, Ken Silverman added the Polymost renderer to the Build engine.

Ken Silverman released his drafts for the engine on March 7,2018.

In 2000, Ken Silverman started work on Voxlap, a voxel-driven graphics engine.

In 2006, a GUI-driven version of PNGOUT known as PNGOUTWin was released by Ardfry Imaging, a small company Ken Silverman co-founded in 2005.

In early 2013, Ken Silverman joined Voxon Photonics as Chief Computer Scientist.

Ken Silverman's role is primarily that of programming the volumetric graphics engine for the Voxiebox, a swept surface volumetric display being described by Voxon as "the world's first holographic arcade game system".