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...free from the bounds of reality as an animated cartoon, were crafted not by humans but by computers. They were among the 35 video and film clips showcased last week at the twelfth annual gathering of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH), the equivalent of the Academy Awards for 25,000 artists, programmers and electronics engineers involved in the complex business of making computer...
Last week's SIGGRAPH attendees got a taste of that insight during a 3-min. film sequence, produced at Lawrence Livermore Labs, that showed in a few seconds what biology teachers have labored for years to make clear: the precise mechanism by which molecules of DNA fold upon themselves to form thick strands of chromosomes. "It's something you could never do with a camera," says Livermore's Nelson Max. The audience at SIGGRAPH greeted his technological tour de force with enthusiastic applause...
Here at the annual SIGGRAPH computer-graphics show in Dallas, I'm having my first hands-on encounter with the technological phenomenon known variously as cyberspace, artificial reality or, in a phrase borrowed from computerese, virtual reality. It relies on the techniques of interactive computer graphics to create the illusion of navigating through exotic locations that seem as "real" as those of the real world. The scene I'm exploring was created by the University of Washington's human-interface-technology lab to run on hardware made by VPL Research, a tiny firm in Redwood City, Calif., that...
...college film festival? An awards competition for advertising commercials? No, it was a convention of computer specialists collectively known as SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics). The films on waves, beach chairs and lamps -- the hits of the convention -- demonstrat- ed the state of the art in computer graphics, a field with increasing applications to architecture, medicine, engineering, flight training and motion pictures. All three were created by Pixar, a San Rafael, Calif., company that in only seven months has established itself as one of the world's premier producers of photographic- quality computer-animated images...
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