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Aug. 12th, 2004 01:01 pmGot the rest of the day off to mess around so finally found time to post on lj. Siggraph has been fun. I have scanned a large amount of faces (Monday alone we had 137 faces scanned). Yes, these are 3d face scans, and yes we have been making them available for the person scanned to play with in stuff like Maya (we are in the guerrilla studio which has several workstations loaded with some of the latest graphical software). And yes, we have a face scanner at ASU (we brought the scanner from ASU here).
At the Guerrilla Studio we have other things as well. We have the giant sand painter (some of the trusses had to be carried up stairs because they were too long to fit in the freight elevator). We also have a little motion capture studio (I wish I had some movements I wanted to motion capture). There is the large print station that has large scale, high quality printers that can print colors normal monitors can't display (we have special monitors too see how one's picture will look before printing it). Of course there is the laser scanners and the rapid prototyper (the queue to use the rapid prototyper filled up in about an hour after the prototyper got here). We even have nail printers (you can print patterns and the like on your finger-nails).
Besides scanning faces, I have done other things as well. I went on the exhibition floor and saw what the various companies were displaying (caught a presentation by ATI on shaders), as well as bought a few programming books. I did pick up a few flyers from this one company who had vr gloves with some sort of force feedback built in (if I had money, I would get a pair).
I visited the emerging technologies room yesterday and saw some interesting stuff like the displays that could display light in great detail and displays that had a very large color palette (one of these to a flat screen as a flat screen to the monitor we used on my old 286). They also had a mobile floor concept for vr walking (moving square platforms that kept you in place while you walked forward).
Also yesterday, I saw the CyberFashion show. Besides the weird stuff, there was some rather interesting things (I want this one jacket that had a programmable light up display on the back similar to a led display).
On Tuesday, I saw the Electronic Theater (the interactive "game" for the audience at the beginning was rather fun). Besides the game, this was just a lot of eye candy that was showed to us on screen.
Overall this has been a fun conference; I will definitely want to come back next year. Knowing me, I probably missed things, but this will be about it for now. Now to try and catch a showing of the Animation Theater while I still can.
At the Guerrilla Studio we have other things as well. We have the giant sand painter (some of the trusses had to be carried up stairs because they were too long to fit in the freight elevator). We also have a little motion capture studio (I wish I had some movements I wanted to motion capture). There is the large print station that has large scale, high quality printers that can print colors normal monitors can't display (we have special monitors too see how one's picture will look before printing it). Of course there is the laser scanners and the rapid prototyper (the queue to use the rapid prototyper filled up in about an hour after the prototyper got here). We even have nail printers (you can print patterns and the like on your finger-nails).
Besides scanning faces, I have done other things as well. I went on the exhibition floor and saw what the various companies were displaying (caught a presentation by ATI on shaders), as well as bought a few programming books. I did pick up a few flyers from this one company who had vr gloves with some sort of force feedback built in (if I had money, I would get a pair).
I visited the emerging technologies room yesterday and saw some interesting stuff like the displays that could display light in great detail and displays that had a very large color palette (one of these to a flat screen as a flat screen to the monitor we used on my old 286). They also had a mobile floor concept for vr walking (moving square platforms that kept you in place while you walked forward).
Also yesterday, I saw the CyberFashion show. Besides the weird stuff, there was some rather interesting things (I want this one jacket that had a programmable light up display on the back similar to a led display).
On Tuesday, I saw the Electronic Theater (the interactive "game" for the audience at the beginning was rather fun). Besides the game, this was just a lot of eye candy that was showed to us on screen.
Overall this has been a fun conference; I will definitely want to come back next year. Knowing me, I probably missed things, but this will be about it for now. Now to try and catch a showing of the Animation Theater while I still can.