Viz@SIGGRAPH-2012
The Department of Visualization is prepared to represent Texas A&M at SIGGRAPH 2012. This year's annual international conference on computer graphics returns to Los Angeles, home to most of the leading CG production studios. While in LA, students, faculty and staff will meet with industry professionals, fellow educators and former students.
Attending the conference? The following list of Viz-activities is available as a downloadable PDF.
Viz@SIGGRAPH2012
The Department of Visualization - Texas A&M University
Faculty and Student Conference Activities and Contributions
(List updated July 31)
Sunday– August 5th
A Very Basic Introduction to GLKit for iOS 5: Getting Up and Running
2-3:30 pm
Room 153BC
Ann McNamara
Monday – August 6th
Computational Aesthetic Evaluation: Steps Toward Machine Creativity
9:00 – 10:30 am
406AB
Philip Galanter
DreamWorks Educators’ Symposium
9th Annual Screening of the “Student Animation Showcase”
8:45 – 4:30
Faculty and Staff
USC School of Cinematic Arts
Disney Animation Studios Tour
10:30am – Group 1
Tuesday – August 7th
Character Rigging and Creature Wrangling in Game, Feature Animation, and Visual Effects Production
2:00 – 5:15 pm
403AB
Tim McLaughlin
SIGGRAPH DAILIES
6:15 - 7:45 pm
Room 515AB
Animated Still Life
Ergun Akleman & Sarah Beth Eisinger
Silence
Kevan Loney & Anne Lynch
French Toast & Bugzilla
Ann McNamara and Students: John Pettingill, Kelly Kin,
Cong Wang, Jacob Zimmer, Chris Potter, Kourtney Kebodeaux,
Siran Liu, Rakesh Ramesh, and David Monroe
Mandible & Goldblum
Ann McNamara and Students: Sean Low, Trishia Cleveland,
Chiang Leng, RJ Pena, Garrett Broussard, Wei Wang,
Rachel Cunningham, Brian Smith, Cassie Hanks, and Caleb Jackson
Visualization Department Reception (VIZ-SIG)
8:00 PM - 1:00 am
Bonaventure Brewing Company
Westin Bonaventure Hotel
404 S. Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Wednesday – August 8th
Christians in Computer Animation
Hosted by former vizzer, Andy Smith
10:00 AM – 12:00 pm
Room 507
Student Volunteer special Industry speaker talk:
Electronic Arts (EA) with former vizzer, Gracie Arenas
and current students – Federico Burch and Justin Sheehy.
10:30 to 12:00
Room 307 near the SV office.
Thursday – August 9th
Geometry and Viewing
Session Chair: Scott Schaefer
2:00 PM - 3:30 pm
Room 408A
Disney Animation Studios Tour
10:30AM – Group 2
DreamWorks Animation Studio Tour
3:30-6:30
Image Playground
3:45 PM - 5:15 pm
Room 408A
Crowd Sourcing Memory Colors For Image Enhancment.
Ann McNamara
Calligraphic Cutting: Extreme Image Resizing With Cuts in Continuous Domain
Ergun Akleman
Friday – August 10th
POSTER DISPLAY
The SEAD Network – Carol LaFayette
Image Resizing with Calligraphic Cutting - Youyou Wang
Sketching Knots - Ozgur Guven
Turning Photographs into Abstract Expressionist Paintings - Youyou Wang
STUDENT VOLUNTEERS
Sarah Spofford – Student Volunteer Office
Kelly Kin
Chiang Leng
Sean Low – International Center and Animation Festival
Trisha Cleveland
Jacob Zimmer