# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/craig-reynolds
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:13:20.118Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/craig-reynolds"
name: "Craig Reynolds"
slug: "craig-reynolds"
description: "Craig W. Reynolds, is an artificial life and computer graphics expert. He created the Boids artificial life simulation in 1986, introducing one the first models from flocking. 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.\" In 2023 at the ALIFE conference he won the lifetime achievement award of the International society for Artificial Life (ISAL). He is the author of the OpenSteer library."
tagline: "American computer graphics expert"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qUdRJl4EGHHpITyNhm81eZXM5qd.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1953-03-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.58
  momentum:             7.692307692307693
  historical:           8.780529333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0721662/"
    handle:    "nm0721662"
sources:
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    title: "Craig Reynolds"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Reynolds_(computer_graphics)"
    title: "Craig Reynolds (computer graphics)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Reynolds_(inform%C3%A1tico)"
    title: "Craig Reynolds (informático)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Craig Reynolds"
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    title: "Craig Reynolds"
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    title: "Craig Reynolds"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Craig Reynolds"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump