The events of the night were not as wild as some other attendees will tell you (I heard rumors of interesting things going on at a party on the airplane carrier Midway). Mine started with the Electronic Theatre, which featured the best if this year’s animation movies, including a sneak peek at Beowulf, a photo realistic motion capture movie that will certainly set a new standard for the idea of actor’s performance for 3D characters.
During the pre-show, special guests tried their hand at a giant video game, projected by lasers on the screen of the theatre. Here, Computer Graphics pioneer Jim Blinn showed a remarkable mastery of Astroids !. After the show, I turned out to be too late to attend the 2007 Unravel Cyber Fashion show, hosted by the Siggraph Chapters party. Fortunately, both models and designers stayed for a while to discuss their work and answer questions.
Here is an example of an LED bracelet, shining with a built in game of life.
Unravel website
old.siggraph.org/s2007/unravel/Projects/17/
More info about the bracelet.
The designer is Leah Buechley (the model in the picture is Ali Crockett).
Here is her website:
www.cs.colorado.edu/~buechley/about_me/about_me.html
And some more info about the bracelets :
www.cs.colorado.edu/~buechley/projects/bracelets/bracelet.html