Panels Fact Sheet
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Eighteen Panels were presented at SIGGRAPH 96: debates, discussions, and responses to questions on the past, present, and future of computer graphics technologies. Following each Panel presentation, attendees and presenters were invited to meet in the Panels breakout room for continued dialog. "SIGGRAPH 96 Panels were selected for their current relevance to the computer graphics community," said Theresa-Marie Rhyne, SIGGRAPH 96 Panels Chair. "Many of this year's Panels highlight the role of networking and telecommunications in computer graphics, and ponder the implications of the World Wide Web." Panel topics Include:
Some panel highlights: Graphics PCs Will Put Workstation Graphics in the Smithsonian
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Michael Deering
Jay Torborg
Kurt Akeley Graphics accelerators for personal computers are rapidly becoming cheaper and more powerful. The panelists considered whether this development spells the end of graphics workstations as we know them. Digital Stunt Doubles: Safety Through Numbers
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Jeffrey B. Light
Frank Vitz Shahlil Ibrahim, Boss Film Studios Logical precursors to computer-generated actors are digital stunt doubles, computer-generated human figures designed to stand in for human actors for visual effects that are either too dangerous, too expensive, or impractical to shoot with human doubles. In this panel, visual effects supervisors presented and discussed their application of digital stunt doubles to feature film projects. VRML: Prelude and Future
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Gavin Bell
Andries Van Dam
Salim Abiezzi As it enables interactive 3D graphics on the World Wide Web, the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) is triggering fundamental changes in accessibility, economics, mindset, and membership for the 3D graphics community. A panel of experts examined how this collaborative standards process works and where VRML is going next. The Future of Virtual Reality: Head-Mounted Displays Versus Spatially Immersive Displays
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Bertrand De La Chapelle
David Zeltzer
Steve T. Bryson
Mark T. Bolas The head-mounted display (HMD) is the de facto display device for "true" virtual reality (VR) systems. However, walk-in spatially immersive displays (SIDs) such as CAVE and domed projection environments promise to challenge the HMD's role in VR display. This panel compared the ultimate utility of HMDs and SIDs in various VR applications. Issues included user mobility, single- and multi-user interactivity, stereoscopic viewing, applicability to augmented reality, visual quality, viewer fatigue, and sense of presence. Building Compelling VRML Worlds
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David Blair
James Waldrop This panel explored VRML and what 3D on the Web can offer: multimedia, responsive, changeable, and expandable worlds. Subjects included formation of a vocabulary for "virtual architecture," reconstruction of a lost archaeological site, exploration of a hybrid narrative and creation of a "procedural cinema," and creation of a VRML-based Web site business. Panelists presented the ideas behind their work and how one weaves motion, lighting, architecture, sound, history, navigation, and narrative into a fabric of interactive experience. Springing into the Fifth Decade of Computer Graphics: Where We've Been and Where We're Going
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Edwin E. Catmull Sylvan Chasen
Robert M. Dunn
Bertram Herzog
Andries Van Dam "Mover-and-shaker" computer graphics pioneers from academia and industry shared their recollections and anecdotes about where the discipline has been over the past four decades and where itıs going. An opportunity to find out what really happened from some of those who made it happen.
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