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IMAGE CREDIT: JIM HAGARTY Ⓒ 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH
Change Your Tune at the Touch of a Dial
Inspired by both Mozart and a children’s toy at IKEA, Masatoshi Hamanaka and his team developed “Melody Slot Machine,” a device able to generate unique melodies at the touch of a dial, and presented their creation at SIGGRAPH 2019.
Image Credit: Melody Slot Machine
Ray Tracing Will be Everywhere in 2020
Ray tracing, the long-held goal for computer graphics, has been in the movies, CAD design, and visualization for decades because of the enormous costs in compute time and power. But not any more!
Photo by Davide Cantelli on Unsplash
A Look at the Emmy-nominated VFX of Netflix’s ‘The Umbrella Academy’
With the conclusion of another SIGGRAPH conference brings a new season — awards season. One team of SIGGRAPH presenters, made up of Everett Burrell and Chris White (Weta Digital), received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for season one of Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy.”
© Courtesy of Netflix
New + Noteworthy
Call for Nominations for ACM SIGGRAPH Professional Development Chair
ACM SIGGRAPH, Professional Development, Standing Committee Chair
Call for Nominations for ACM SIGGRAPH Research Career Development Chair
ACM SIGGRAPH, Research Career Development, Standing Committee Chair
Upcoming Events
CCGIDIS 2020
ETRA 2020
SCA 2020
I3D 2020 conference postponed to September 15-17 (tentative)
SAP 2020 – To be held virtually
Digital Library Selections
Courses: An Introduction to Physics-based Animation
ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Courses, Publication: Proceeding SIGGRAPH '19 ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Courses Los Angeles, California — July 28 - 28, 2019
“Birth of Planet Earth” fulldome excerpt: photosynthesis in a chromatophore
ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Computer Animation Festival, Digital Library submission. Scientific visualization of the energyharvesting process of an earlyphotosynthetic organelle called achromatophore.
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 38 Issue 4, July 2019