Editing Craig Reynolds (computer graphics) (section)

{{Short description|American computer graphics expert}}
'''Craig W. Reynolds''' (born March 15, 1953), is an [[artificial life]] and [[computer graphics]] expert, who created the [[Boids]] artificial life simulation in 1986.<ref>{{cite book|last=Reynolds |first=Craig W. |title=Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques |chapter=Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=25–34 |publisher=ACM |year=1987 |doi= 10.1145/37401.37406 |isbn=978-0897912273 |citeseerx=10.1.1.317.3619 |s2cid=546350 }}</ref> Reynolds worked on the film ''[[Tron]]'' (1982) as a scene programmer, and on ''[[Batman Returns]]'' (1992) as part of the video image crew. Reynolds won the 1998 [[Academy Scientific and Technical Award]] in recognition of "his pioneering contributions to the development of three-dimensional computer animation for motion picture production."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1335150780787 |title=Awards Database |publisher=The Academy of Motional Picture Arts and Sciences |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120712004925/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1335150780787 |archivedate=2012-07-12 }}</ref> In 2023 at the ALIFE conference he won the life time achievent award of the [https://alife.org/ International society for Artificial Life] (ISAL). He is the author of the ''[[OpenSteer]]'' library.