Craig Reynolds (computer graphics)

{{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.{{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 }} 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."{{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 }} 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.