A gathering for alumni and friends of the Ringling College of Art and Design.

Tracing Home participating artists casually explain and discuss their works, process, and ideas . These talks are followed by short Q & A sessions and an opportunity to meet and chat with the artists. All talks are presented in the Art Gallery.

An informal reception at the SIGGRAPH Village for all educators attending SIGGRAPH 2011.

Movies captured at the equivalent of a trillion frames per second show the motion of light pulses through scenes, bouncing off walls and getting trapped inside fruits due to sub-surface scattering.

Display pixel caching fills empty borders that occur when videos are displayed on a screen with mismatching aspect ratios and/or resolutions with spatially and temporally consistent information while preserving the original video format. It merges the motion information from subsequent frames to generate high-resolution panoramas in a consistent manner.

A device-independent imaging system for accurately capturing and faithfully reproducing colors.

Presented by David Attenborough, "Who do you think you really are?" is an interactive film that uses cutting-edge technology, including location-based augmented reality and real-time audience participation, to take audiences on an immersive, interactive journey into their evolutionary past.

A grammar-based framework for converting 3D furniture models to separate parts and connectors that can be physically built, which allows nonprofessional users to create products that they can use themselves by "printing" 3D furniture models.

This paper introduces a framework for automatic generation of furniture arrangement, considering human factors such as accessibility, visibility, pathways, etc. The framework generates arrangements for a variety of scenarios.

An interactive furniture layout system that assists users by suggesting furniture arrangements based on interior design guidelines. Results demonstrate that the suggestion-generation functionality measurably increases the quality of furniture arrangements produced by participants with no prior training in interior design.

Procedural extrusion is a new, easy-to-use tool that combines arbitrary plans and profiles to create a wide range of architectural forms. This paper demonstrates the technique's application to procedural modeling of cityscapes.

This paper brings artistic control to grammar-based procedural models via Markov-chain Monte Carlo inference. Given a grammar and a high-level specification, the algorithm computes a production from the grammar that conforms to the specification. The method is demonstrated on models of trees, cities, buildings, and Mondrian paintings.

A new real-time Eulerian fluid simulation that uses a hybrid grid of regular cubic cells on top of a layer of tall cells above an arbitrary terrain. The method includes a novel multigrid method and several fluid solver modifications, and achieves 30fps in real-world scenarios on a modern GPU.

A two-scale method for particle-based fluids that allocates computing resources to regions of the fluid where complex flow behavior emerges. This method produces similar surface details as the single-resolution simulation while improving the efficiency.

This paper presents a method for achieving non-reflecting boundaries when animating free surface fluids. The boundaries are based on the perfectly matched layer (PML) approach and are intended to allow localized high-quality simulations of large fluid domains such as oceans.

To efficiently obtain natural-looking liquid simulations subject to art direction, this method processes approved low-resolution geometry into a "guide shape" just below the liquid surface. The final high-resolution simulation runs just a surface layer constrained by the guide, with benefits for both speed and control.

A technique for synthesizing synchronized sounds for physically based fire animations. A hybrid method simulates low-frequency flame sounds using a physics-based approach, and then uses bandwidth extension and sound-texture synthesis to synthesize fiery high-frequency details.

Material connections are everywhere: from architectural environments to machines and electronics. These connections manifest as seams, joints, and corners, usually with visually apparent orthogonal lines. Graded material transition is an alternative material-connection method that challenges the dominance of pronounced orthogonal seams in today’s built environment.

This session is for attendees interested in discussing creative projects and how to manage them, with a particular emphasis on Agile methodologies.

Teaching design with Processing, drawing with G-Speak: how the Rhode Island School of Design's Division of Foundation Studies is expanding the envelope of introductory digital concepts for students of art and design.

How Much Animation Can You Do in a Day?
This talk shows how to speed up your pipeline with the Xsens MVN animation tool. It also explains how to record a motion, edit the motion, and insert it into a scene in no time, or even real time, using the Xsens MVN system.