Wednesday, 3 August
10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Wednesday, 3 August
10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Hall B
- Papers: Fluid Simulation
Session Chair: John Anderson, Pixar Animation Studios
Animating Gases With Hybrid Meshes
Bryan E. Feldman
James F. O'Brien
Bryan M. Klinger
University of California, Berkeley
A Vortex Particle Method for Smoke, Water, and Explosions
Andrew Selle
Stanford University and Intel Corporation
Nick Rasmussen
Industrial Light & Magic
Ronald Fedkiw
Stanford University and Industrial Light & Magic
Discontinuous Fluids
Jeong-Mo Hong
Chang-Hun Kim
Korea University
Water Drops on Surfaces
Huamin Wang
Peter J. Mucha
Greg Turk
Georgia Institute of Technology
Wednesday, 3 August
10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Petree Hall C
- Panels: Believable Characters: Are AI-Driven Characters Possible, and
Where Will They Take Us?
Processing power is increasing as fast as player expectations, which raises far more questions than answers:
- Where are we (and our characters) going with artificial intelligence?
- How is interactive entertainment changing in games for Playstation3, Xbox2, and massive multiplayer, online role-playing environments?
- How does AI affect development of emotionally believable characters?
- How can we prioritize and balance graphic techniques to support perceived realism in a character?
- Are there rules or guidelines we can distill from the more successful game characters?
- What are the subliminal tip-offs that spoil the illusion of credible characters?
In this panel, industry experts, artists, character animators, and programmers share their insights and help us sift through the graphics-technology clutter to uncover some believable character gems and answer some fundamental questions.
Moderator
Stephen Gray
Electronic Arts
Panelists
Eric Armstrong
Electronic Arts Canada
Gregory Garvey
Quinnipiac University
Andrew Stern
InteractiveStory.net
Frank Vitz
Electronic Arts
Wednesday, 3 August
10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Room 511AB
- Sketches: Mesh Thingies
Session Chair: Hanspeter Pfister, Mistubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)
Unconstrained Spherical Parameterization
A simple modification makes traditional planar parameterization methods work on the sphere, without having to introduce additional distortion by specifying artificial constraints.
Ilja Friedel
California Institute of Technology
ilja (at) cs.caltech.edu
Peter Schröder
Mathieu Desbrun
California Institute of Technology
Combining Metrics for Mesh Simplification and Parameterization
A mesh simplification strategy for generating polygonal meshes with well-shaped faces in the presence of constraints. This sketch introduces a novel combination of metrics to drive the simplification process.
Jordan Smith
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
smithpj (at) us.ibm.com
Ioana Boier-Martin IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center
Streaming Compression of Triangle Meshes
This radical departure from the traditional approach to mesh compression proposes a scheme that incrementally encodes a mesh in the order vertices and gives triangles to the compressor.
Martin Isenburg
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
isenburg (at) cs.unc.edu
Peter Lindstrom
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jack Snoeyink
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Predictive Point-Cloud Compression
A single-resolution compression technique for point clouds that can exploit fine-scale structures as they arise in 3D scans and resampled data.
Stefan Gumhold
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
gumhold (at) uni-tuebingen.de
Zachi Karni
Martin Isenburg
Hans-Peter Seidel
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Wednesday, 3 August
10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Room 515B
- Sketches: Perception
Session Chair: Joe Kniss, University of Utah
Manipulating Volumetric Abstractions to Match Color Perception Between Dissimilar Gamuts
A novel interactive technique for leveraging GPU acceleration, designed to efficiently refine procedurally generated color transformations to attain a perceptually accurate match between devices of significantly disparate gamuts.
Dominic Glynn
C.O.R.E Feature Animation
dominic.glynn (at) gmail.com
John Carey
Zoe Glynn
C.O.R.E Feature Animation
Perceptually Based Image Rendering of Art Paintings
A method for perceptually based image rendering of art paintings on a display device by considering surface properties and chromatic adaptation for the purpose of the total digital archive.
Shoji Tominaga
Osaka Electro-Communication University
shoji (at) tmlab.osakac.ac.jp
Mariko Nakagawa
Osaka Electro-Communication University
Norihiro Tanaka
Nagano University
A Human Eye Retinal Cone Synthesizer
A new algorithm models the growth of the five million cones in the human eye's retina. The position, size, shape, and orientation of each cone are modeled individually.
Michael F. Deering
deeringm (at) acm.org
Spatio-Temporal Video Warping
A new framework for spatio-temporal warping of video, with a focus on one novel effect: the spatio-temporal magnifying glass, which is particularly well-suited for instant replays in sports broadcasts.
Alex Rav-Acha
Yael Pritch
Dani Lischinski
Shmuel Peleg
The Hebrew University