Greg Turk

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Greg Turk is an American-born researcher in the field of computer graphics and a professor^[ambiguous] at the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). His paper "Zippered polygon meshes from range images", concerning the reconstruction of surfaces from point data, brought the "Stanford bunny", a frequently used example object in computer graphics research, into the CGI lexicon. Turk actually purchased the original Stanford Bunny and performed the initial scans on it. He is also known for his work on simplification of surfaces, and on reaction–diffusion-based texture synthesis. In 2008, Turk was the technical papers chair of SIGGRAPH 2008.^[1] In 2012, Greg Turk was awarded the ACM Computer Graphics Achievement Award 2012.^[2]