prevost@eos.UUCP (Michael Prevost) (08/15/90)
This years SIGGRAPH was great! I took the radiosity course and found it very informative. I thought Jed Lengyel paper on Real-Time Motion planning was great. Jed was able to use the graphic hardware to assist in generating legal paths. We shouldn't forget that we can get Cray-1 performance if you can transform the problem into something the hardware can understand. Haeberli's papers on his paint program and the one on the accumulation buffer were also good. I attended the VR panel session. I was impressed by the number of people who were also interested. It was probably the best attended session. About 1/3 to 1/2 the audiance claimed to have tried VR. The thing I didn't like about the conference was the circus like atmosphere of the exhibits. As I walked in I was handed a pen from I person in an ape costume. There was a wizard presenting the magical rendering of images. There was a dwarf doing I don't know what. There was a juggler at another boot. And when I get to the SGI boot theres an 11 year old child actor showing how easy it is to use there system. Now I don't want to sound like some old stick in the mud but this is getting ridiculous. Less Hype and more meat. mp... Mike Prevost NASA-AMES MS 239-9 Moffett Field Ca. prevost@eos.arc.nasa.gov
chuck@Morgan.COM (Chuck Ocheret) (08/16/90)
Let's not forget the gymnast swinging above the Vicom booth. ~chuck -- +--------------------+ Chuck Ocheret, Sr. Staff Engineer +---------------+ |chuck@APT.Morgan.COM| Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. |(212) 703-4474 | | Duty now ... |19th Floor, 1251 Avenue of the Americas|for the future.| +--------------------+ New York, N.Y. 10020 USA +---------------+