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Notes From Siggraph 2004

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-pictures dept.

juan_buhler writes "SIGGRAPH 2004 started Sunday in the Los Angeles Convention Center. I am chairing the Sketches program for 2005, and along with Nishant Kothary, who is chairing the Web program in 2005, Danah Boyd and others, we are running a pilot with a blog and a wiki. Check them out. The blog has almost real time posting of what's going on at SIGGRAPH, so it's a great way to see it if you couldn't make it this year" Read on for a few more notes from Siggraph.

First, steveha writes "As noted on LWN, SGI has announced the OpenGL 2.0 specification, which includes support for programmable shaders. How long will it be before we get native Linux applications using this?"

protohiro1 writes "I just saw this HDR display and it blew me away, it was like looking at a slide on a light table. Is this the future of display tech?"

abacsalmasi wrote about a "nifty little thing called Echo. I, along with two other chaps, have started a company called Stable Research Inc. and we'll be showing our Echo prototype at the Siggraph show. It is essentially live DVD recordings at concert venues where we can have burned DVDs of the concert they just saw, ready minutes after the show for people to pick up on their way out. The cool thing about it is the ability to switch camera angles on the fly, without any lag or stuttering, plus we include another composite ganged feed so you can watch all the cameras simultaneously. A demo will be showing at The Canadian Film Centre's Habitat New Media booth so stop by and check it out. Web Demo coming soon."

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  1. Squidball by epepke · · Score: 3, Funny

    So far, that's been the best. A video game where you have to pop balloons by throwing balls at them. Only the balls are real, about 1.5 m, and you bounce them at other people in the audience.

    1. Re:Squidball by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      So that's what that stupid thing's called? I thought it sucked, er... balls.

  2. Those Darn Kids and Their Rock-n-Roll Music by MooseByte · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Then the dot-com thing ruined it. It was filled with kids with green hair and tounge piercings who wanted to get started in "computer graphics."

    No doubt the suit-and-tie mainframers thought the same thing when "those kids in some garage" started making "toy computers" to sell for personal use. ;-)

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  3. Re:Woohoo! by JohnFluxx · · Score: 2, Funny

    Offtopic story..

    I'm in the uk, and was in an auditarium with about 200 students watching a clip from SIGGRAPH. It had this bit where this small bird falls off a telegraph pole. The bird hits the ground, and the bass rumbling when it hits the ground is loud. Really loud, and the seats and tables start to shake visibile. I'm thinking "shit, this SIGGRAPH stuff is amazing!" and everyone start talking, and the shaking hit again. Turned out to be the first (and last) earthquake I've ever felt...

  4. It's a scam!!! by RonBarr · · Score: 3, Funny

    I went to their website, and looked at the display, and the PICTURE WAS EXACTLY THE SAME AS MY MONITOR. Do not fall for this scam, people.