{"id":1736,"date":"2007-08-06T23:46:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T23:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/linfa\/create\/2007\/08\/06\/siggraph_07_day_5\/"},"modified":"2007-08-06T23:46:59","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T23:46:59","slug":"siggraph_07_day_5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2007\/08\/06\/siggraph_07_day_5\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGGRAPH 07 &#8211; Day 3 (evening)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;s performance for 3D characters.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSC_0004.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1254\/1039006299_f024ae15b6.jpg?resize=500%2C335\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Blinn\">Jim Blinn<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"335\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSC_0075.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1058\/1038963519_8fc303bdde.jpg?resize=335%2C500\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p>Here is an example of an LED bracelet, shining with a built in game of life.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Unravel website <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/old.siggraph.org\/s2007\/unravel\/Projects\/17\/\">http:\/\/old.siggraph.org\/s2007\/unravel\/Projects\/17\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More info about the bracelet.<\/p>\n<p> The designer is Leah Buechley (the model in the picture is Ali Crockett).<\/p>\n<p> Here is her website:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/web.media.mit.edu\/~leah\/\">http:\/\/www.cs.colorado.edu\/~buechley\/about_me\/about_me.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p> And some more info about the bracelets : <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/web.media.mit.edu\/~leah\/grad_work\/projects\/bracelets\/bracelet.html\" class=\"broken_link\">http:\/\/www.cs.colorado.edu\/~buechley\/projects\/bracelets\/bracelet.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s animation movies, including a sneak peek at Beowulf, a photo realistic motion capture movie that&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2007\/08\/06\/siggraph_07_day_5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-blog","post_format-post-format-image","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8frwa-s0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}