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Book SynopsisPrologue.- Beginnings.- UCSB and the College of Creative Studies.- Kramer Research and a New Trajectory.- The University of Toronto.- Component Parts for the PhD.- The Strands Take Form.- The PhD Thesis.- I Need a Job, and Get an Insight, too.- The Penn CIS Faculty in 1974.- A PhD Student! .- Research at Penn.- Color Graphics! .- NASA, TEMPUS, and Beyond.- Building the Computer Graphics Research Lab.- Jack.-Jack Grows Up.- Faces.- ANIMI.- Maintainer Simulations.- Transitioning from Human Models to Virtual Beings.- Locomotion and Gait.- A Virtual Human Presenter.- SIGGRAPH.- Movement Notations.- Motion Capture.- LiveActor.- Jack Joins the Military.- MediSim.- Eyes Alive.- Parametrized Action Representation.- CAROSA.- Teaching.- Digital Media Design.- The SIG Center Renovation.- Crowds.- Behavior Trees, Navigation, and Storytelling.- Smells and Sounds.- Running Hot and Cold.- Personality and PERFORM.- The ViDi Center.- Archaeological Lighting.- Visualizing the Past/Peopling the Past.- Marching Order.- Publicity.- Cesium GS.- Philosophies.- Life Lessons.