SIGGRAPH 2007, 4th August (First Day)

With an exhausted body but enthusiastic mind. I have arrived SIGGRAPH2007 venue, San Diego Conventional Center!
San Diego Conventional Center exterior view

This is really a huge convention center. Nevertheless, SIGGRAPH has placed numerous posters, panels and banner to create an “SIGGRAPH atmosphere”

SIGGRAPH Banner

Registration Hall

Accidentally after registration I discovered that there are some performances and exhibitions to be held in UCSD 30 minutes later. Right away, I jump into an only-that-day-free shuttle bus to Atkinson Hall of UCSD.

Atkinson Hall

Atkinson Hall, where based CRCA and Calit2. The conduct wide range of project at the intersection of science, engineering, and the arts. there are six division in Calit2 in which pursue various perspective of technological researches and projects. There are a lot of cutting edge researches and creations, and I definitely will manage to visit here once again.

Here are some works that I have seen that day

Hydrodynamics Ocean, Yoichiro Kawaguchi.

A bumped screen receive project of images of floating fluid and 3D rendering. the bumpiness is triggered by the lightness of the image. This work has a complex structure to control the formation of the bumped wave in which trying to physically objectify the image.

Substitute Judgment, Jeffrey Treviño

Takashi’s Season, Takashi Kawashima

A live performance of Japanese puppet show with digital animation. A fusion of two medium, which both of their histories are converged from the same root, dramatically interacting for in a very poetic narration. It simultaneously present duel set of form of movement from two different media. Provide us a moment to appreciate the aesthetic of movement from this two particular media.

Walking into a Leonardo Masterpiec, Maurizio Seracini, Jurgen Schulze and Philip Weber

This is a very interesting presentation. It is a research project which uses infrared, ultraviolet and other imaging techniques to scan Leonard’s Masterpieces. To reveal the process of drawing that underneath the paint. The upper example is a sketch of elephant that behind the mountain. In this project, They also developed a interface for looking through the painting. Viewer can move back and forth to observe different degree of layers of the painting in which resembling the physical movement when audiences perceiving an art piece.

Additionally, their screened several works in 4D projection. It was extraordinary detail, but the image seems “too real” to me. The camera eye has been one step further from human eyes again…

This day was very fruitful, and I finally introduced myself to Sheldon Brown, Director of CRCA. I must return here for further research later on!