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Conveying Personal and Collective Perceptions through Visual Narrative
How easy it to explain what you see, feel and hear to people that have never been "inside" your head of thoughts, your own personal interpretation of the world in which you exist? How easy is it to project a perception of a reality that can be shared by all? Some would consider these philosophical questions, but for the artist and the visionary they are the essence to what challenges their craft, to explain the unexplainable and to share a "vision" that would otherwise be lost.
Joe Rohde was last year's SIGGRAPH conference keynote speaker. His article "From Myth to Mountain: Insights Into Virtual Placemaking" explains the importance of narrative when developing collective perceptions of worlds where story is seen and felt as well as heard. I would like to thank both Joe and his team at Disney Imagineering for allowing his lecture to be printed for those that were not able to attend the 2006 conference.
Kenneth Wittlief's article "Stereoscopic 3D Film and Animation - Getting It Right" describes in very clear terms how to go about creating stereoscopics correctly, based on his experience as a senior researcher at Icuiti Corp, NY.
Also, "VisFiles" is back, starting with Kwan-Liu Ma's article "The Next surge of Visualization Research". Welcome back Kwan-Lu!
The company Organic Motion is contributing with an article about a new approach to motion capture, one area of technology that is always (very) well represented on the Exhibitor's floor.
I would like to remind our community that this is your quarterly newsletter whose content is influenced by the contribution of its members and affiliates. I strongly encourage all of you to get involved to support an incredible "magazine" dedicated to the interests of the ACM SIGGRAPH community. I am assuming that there will be much to review in the November issue summarizing the impressions gathered by our student reporters as well as hearing from the voices that are willing to share their experiences from this years conference.
As always, enjoy this issue of the ACM SIGGRAPH e-quarterly "Computer Graphics" as we Face Tomorrow at this year's 2007 SIGGRAPH Conference in San Diego.
Enjoy!
Hans Westman
Editor