Word: siggraph
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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...
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