Greg Turk

Who is Greg Turk?

Greg Turk is an American-born researcher in the field of computer graphics and a Professor at the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. 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 served as the technical papers chair of SIGGRAPH 2008. In 2012 Greg Turk was awarded the ACM Computer Graphics Achievement Award 2012.