The GigaPan system of hardware, image-processing software, and a web application supports the capture, creation, and presentation of gigapixel images. In this workshop, attendees participate in creating a GigaPan image from start to finish: scouting a shooting location near the conference center, setting up the GigaPan robot, taking the source images, stitching these images into a GigaPan, uploading to a web site, and annotating the final GigaPan. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own digital cameras for use with the GigaPan robot, but a limited number of digital cameras will be provided.

By optimizing games to exploit the capabilities of the latest platform technology and tools, game developers can create games featuring innovations that give players greater immersion. Spend your engineering time making the content more realistic and immersive instead of working around storage delays. With this idea in mind, Intel partnered with Iron Galaxy and Digital Extremes to deliver a proof of concept showing the content quality that can be achieved by exploiting the performance of Intel SSDs and second-generation Intel Core Family processors.

Kami is a geometry-instancing pipeline to generate and deform simple primitives like curves (for fur, hair, and grass) and arbitrarily complex shaded hierarchical geometry. The system has been most recently used in "The Smurfs" movie to populate a village with plants, flowers, and grass.

Tthe portrait system that drives Eve Online's new high-fidelity avatars. Breaking down the final image into its components, this talk surveys the various techniques (including some that didn't work out) for real-time skin, eyes, hair, and shadows on commodity graphics hardware.

SpeedFur is a node-based procedural hair and fur modeling system that provides a GPU-accelerated real-time preview of the hair and renders on a traditional CPU-only render node.

A language and heterogeneous compiler for efficiently solving structured grids on the CPU or the GPU, designed from the ground up with parallelism in mind.

Join us to discuss the year round activities of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community, including online curated exhibitions, our virtual community, and discussions. Bring announcements and ideas.

TurboSquid and Falling Pixel use a case study from the stock 3D industry as a lens to discuss the challenges presented by a lack of standards in 3D modeling as a whole.

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An entertaining, illuminating summary of SIGGRAPH 2011 Technical Papers in one exciting, fun-filled hour! The author(s) of each paper are allowed a little less than a minute to wow the crowd with their results and entice attendees to hear their complete paper presentation later in the week.

This course is as an introduction to the PhysBAM simulation library developed at Stanford University and used in both academic and industrial settings, including Intel Corporation, Industrial Light & Magic, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Pixar Animation Studios. The course contains information on the release of PhysBAM as well as information on how to obtain the source code, set up the library, and use it to run example smoke and water simulations. It also summarizes a visualization tool and a rendering tool included in the release of the library.

Physically based simulation is a vital part of the special-effects toolkit. Traditionally, special effects are obtained by constructing scale or full-size models, whether the scene calls for a sinking ship or a burning building. Unfortunately, this is very expensive and at times not feasible. Physical simulation is also used for special effects in animated films,
where traditional special effects methods cannot easily be applied. And it is increasingly used in the gaming community as enhanced processing power enables simulations to occur at real-time rates.

In addition to the PhysBAM library, the course explains the underlying techniques that make these simulations possible, in particular level set methods such as fast marching, fast sweeping, and the particle level set method. It also addresses the important aspects of a fluid simulation, including advection, viscosity, and projection.

COURSE SCHEDULE

9 am
The New Intel Center I
Dubey

9:10 am
The New Intel Center II
Hanrahan

9:20 am
The New Intel Center III.
Fedkiw

9:35 am
PhysBAM Tools Library
Lentine

10:15 am
PhysBAM Geometry Library
Schroeder

10:55 am
Level Set Algorithms
Schroeder

11:40 am
Water Simulation
Schroeder

The first half of this workshop focuses on navigating the user interface, layout, basic tools, and panels in Maya. The second half focuses on how to use simple primitives to create projects and basic objects, and how to place objects in a scene.

ShadowDraw, a system for guiding the freeform drawing of objects. As the user draws, ShadowDraw dynamically updates a shadow image underlying the user's strokes. The shadows suggest object contours to guide the drawing process.

OverCoat is a 3D painting system that allows the user to treat the full 3D space as a canvas. Paint strokes applied in 2D are embedded in a 3D scalar field that is shaped by proxy geometry, and rendered such that the result always looks like a 2D digital painting.

Designing and shading volumetric effects in feature-films is a difficult problem. This system, modeled after the way expert artists think about participating media, allows for intuitive control and authoring of both physically accurate and non-physical, artistic volumetric effects.

This noise function suitable for non-photorealistic rendering creates random variation that moves with the objects in a scene.