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Cesium simulation of New York City skyline. Image provided by Analytics Graphics Inc. At SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles, California, the ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic (Carto) Visualization Bird of a Feather (BOF) session will highlight the future of digital mapping to...
This Q&A was originally published in the ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profiles. Patrick Cozzi is a graphic developer, educator and author working at Analytical Graphics, Inc. and the University of Pennsylvania. 1. What do you do, and how long have you been doing it? At...
Image from Now Way Out courtesy of Stuff 3D Animation Historically, regions such as North America, Europe, Asia, and recently Australasia receive the majority of the work and funding on 3D animated feature film projects. Regions such as Latin America, on the other...
ACM SIGGRAPH is seeking 20 industry professionals to mentor high school students who will be part of the15th "Spend a Week at SIGGRAPH" program. This program provides a full week of immersion in the best of computer graphics and interactive techniques to high school...
By Jessica Sommerville & Rick Xu For this Regional Snapshot post, we look into the trends and climate surrounding China’s computer graphics (CG) industry. We were fortunate to speak with a man known to many as “the father of the Chinese CG industry,” Raymond...
This Q&A was originally published in the ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profiles. Muhammad Arief is a Ph. D. candidate at Tokyo University of Technology and is active in the ACM SIGGRAPH International Resources Committee. 1. What do you do, and how long have you been doing...
At Laval Virtual's 19th Annual Conference, SIGGRAPH 2017 Emerging Technologies Chair Jeremy Kenisky presented a special prize to competition winner “Real Baby – Real Family.” The "Real Baby" project creates an age controllable VR avatar from 2D face images, and was...
If you've already registered for SIGGRAPH 2017, you may have chosen an avatar (or three) that match your profile. Maybe you've seen the video on Facebook and met the avatars. Maybe you're getting ready to register and want to know more about why you should pick an...
By Jessica Sommerville SIGGRAPH conferences are truly international events, with attendees traveling from all over the world to exchange ideas and accomplishments in the field of computer graphics and interactive techniques. ACM SIGGRAPH holds this exchange of...
This Q&A was originally published in the ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profiles. Brian Wyvill is a professor of computer science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia and has been active in the ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Conferences for many years. He currently...
Join SIGGRAPH for our second Twitter chat of 2017 on Wednesday, 15 March, at 2 pm ET (1 pm CT, 11 am PT). We will be using the hashtag #SIGGRAPHchat and our topic will be the Students and SIGGRAPH. If you're a student and want to get involved with SIGGRAPH Student...
photo courtesy Jessica Sommerville by Jessica Sommerville This is the second installment in the regional snapshot series. In the previous article we focused on the current state of the Computer Graphics Industry in Australasia.This article explores both current trends...