Exhibition, aka the show floor.

Last year's research, technology that incrementally improves every year, cool stuff that was not even imagined last year.

Here are three stories about the SIGGRAPH show floor: the circus, big booth-small booth, the latest hardware.

 
You can tell the state of the art demos pretty easily - they crash.

Before the show

Crowd Scene

This year, ATI timed the 9700 just right to make a big splash at SIGGRAPH. The new 3D labs chip was announced a few months before and the new GeForce was announced two months later.

ATI

3D Labs

NVIDIA

More unsorted photos from SIGGRAPH 2002