SIGGRAPH 2020 Makes Digital Magic During First Virtual Conference
SIGGRAPH 2020, which launched online on 17 August, has concluded its live session week with nearly 400,000 streams worldwide.
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ACM SIGGRAPH Reveals Final SIGGRAPH 2020 Numbers, 2021 Planning
More than 10,000 professionals joined the conference’s first completely virtual offering.
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President's Corner- What did you tell us via the virtual conference survey?
About a month ago we sent out a survey asking for your thoughts about what the virtual SIGGRAPH 2020 should look like. Here is a summary of what we learned from the survey.
Honoring the Outstanding Achievements and Service of our Community
ACM SIGGRAPH and Awards Chair John (Spike) Hughes are thrilled to announce the recipients of the ACM SIGGRAPH awards for achievements and service.
President’s Corner - We stand with you.
I would like to offer support to members of our ACM SIGGRAPH family and acknowledge the pain and injustice faced by the African American community on a daily basis.
The 2019 ACM Turing Award: Celebrating SIGGRAPH and Computer Graphics Achievements
On March 18, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced that Edwin E. (Ed) Catmull and Patrick M. (Pat) Hanrahan had jointly received the 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their respective fundamental contributions to 3D computer graphics and the revolutionary impact of these techniques on computer-generated imagery (CGI) in filmmaking and other applications.
Photo by Jim Hagarty © 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH
New + Noteworthy
Call for Nominations for ACM SIGGRAPH External Relations Chair
Call for Nominations, External Relations Chair, SIGGRAPH Volunteer, Standing Committee Chair
Upcoming Events
VAST 2020 – Visual Analytics
InfoVis 2020 – Information Visualization
SciVis 2020 – Scientific Visualization
SUI 2020 – Virtual
VRST 2020 – Virtual
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