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ON THE SPOT!
What do you think is the next big trend in computer graphics?
by Merrie Ringel
12 August 2004
SIGGRAPH attendees weigh in on
where they think the field is headed...
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I think that everything's moving to something smaller,
and it's going to be faster. Everything will be more portable.
-Erika Kogler, Production Artist,
Atronic Americas
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I think it's going to go into locative media, mobile media, augmented reality,
and mixed media. The need for graphics on small devices is going to become more and more
important.
-Will Carter, graduate student in Interactive Media at the
University of Southern California
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High dynamic range images. You can show full 16-bit range, so you're not
throwing away any of the information in a scene.
-Neil McPhail, VP of Engineering, Sunnybrook Technologies
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Virtual Reality. Tactile displays can help make VR more convincing.
-Daisuke Akaho, GelForce
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I hope computer graphics gets less complex. They need to reduce the number of help files
you have to read to accomplish anything.
-Kevin Vlack, graduate student in Information Science & Technology, University of Tokyo
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There has been a lot of work on data-driven computer graphics, with capturing
images and bi-directional reflective distribution functions. I expect there will be more
work in using real data to drive our models, including better work that extracts geometry
and other data from scenes using computer vision.
-Peter Sibley, graduate student in Computer Science, Brown University
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I've seen a lot of stuff on augmented reality, and I think it's cool. It seems like a big deal this year.
-Anna Arenas, undergraduate student, Texas A&M University |
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The next big frontier is animation, I think. Things are looking really good already,
but they're not necessarily moving great, especially in real time.
-Noel Llopis,Lead Technical Architect, Sammy Studios
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I think multi-flash. I think it's an idea that will have impact.
-Bennett Wilburn,graduate student in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
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Arts with Science -- stronger collaboration.
-Sriram Subramanian,
Professor of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan
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You'll have to come to SIGGRAPH 2005 to see who's correct!
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
On the Spot! is a series of quick responses from
SIGGRAPH conference attendees on topics of shared interest.
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