Editing Greg Turk (section)

==Education and computer graphics research==
After receiving his Ph.D. from the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] under the supervision of [[Henry Fuchs]] in 1992, Turk was a postdoctoral researcher at [[Stanford University]] from 1992 to 1994 with [[Marc Levoy]] before he returned to UNC-Chapel Hill as a research professor from 1994 to 1996. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1996.<ref>[http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/~greg.turk/ GVU Center: People: Greg Turk] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213032557/http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/~greg.turk/ |date=2008-02-13 }}.</ref> The following year, Turk was awarded an [[National Science Foundation|NSF]] CAREER Award, one of the most prestigious awards granted by the NSF to new faculty.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/career/awards/fy97/97program.htm |title=NSF Career Awards 1997 |access-date=2018-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305005905/https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/career/awards/fy97/97program.htm |archive-date=2016-03-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

It was while at Stanford that he first brought the "Stanford bunny" back to the lab for scanning, which he recounts in a "had I but known" fashion:

{{blockquote|"One day, close to . . . Easter . . . I was out shopping on University Avenue near the Stanford campus.  . . . . On one of the shelves of [a] store was a large collection of clay bunny rabbits, all identical. I had range scanning on my mind, and these bunnies looked to be about the right shape and size for our . . .  project. Even better, these bunnies were made of terra cotta (red clay), so they were red and diffuse. I bought one of these bunnies. Had I known how popular the digital model would become, I would have bought many! I brought this clay bunny back to the Stanford Graphics Lab and scanned it from several directions. Using the methods that Marc and I [had] developed, I aligned a collection of ten such range scans to one another and merged them into a single polygonal mesh. The resulting model has come to be known as the Stanford Bunny. The original bunny still lives at Stanford."<ref>[http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/bunny/bunny.html The Stanford Bunny]</ref>}}