Editing Greg Turk (section)

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| name              = Greg Turk
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| birth_date        = July 21, 1961
| birth_place       = Durham, NC
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| citizenship       = United States
| nationality       = American
| field             = Computer graphics
| work_institutions = [[Georgia Institute of Technology]]
| alma_mater        = University of California, Los Angeles
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| known_for         = [[Stanford bunny]]
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| prizes            = Technical Paper Chair, SIGGRAPH 2008 , ACM Computer Graphics Achievement Award 2012
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'''Greg Turk''' is an American-born researcher in the field of [[computer graphics]] and a professor{{ambiguous|date=April 2020}} at the [[Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing|School of Interactive Computing]] in the [[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing|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.<ref>[http://www.SIGGRAPH.org/s2008/submissions/juried/papers/ SIGGRAPH 2008: Call for papers]</ref> In 2012, Greg Turk was awarded the ACM Computer Graphics Achievement Award 2012.<ref>{{cite web | publisher=ACM SIGGRAPH| title=2012 Computer Graphics Award announcement | url= http://www.SIGGRAPH.org/participate/awards|year=2012}}</ref>