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Two weeks ago today the lab began its ten day visit in Vancouver for the SIGGRAPH 2018 convention. As you can see from the posts that have been saturating this page, we came out of it with may new experiences to share with all you who are reading.  For about five days, I was behind

I’m currently in the airport, doing some post-SIGGRAPH travel to recharge, so this post will have to be brief. But, I figure I should write down some thoughts I had on the conference before they escape me. So, here’s a quick list of things I particularly enjoyed or noticed at SIGGRAPH 2018: Machine Learning continues

Two weeks ago, I was writing excitedly about our final countdown to SIGGRAPH.  Today, I write even more excited to tell you about our success, the enormous turnout, the 4 days in a row of fully booked seats, and the 1924 people that watched CAVE last week.  Our goal was to get 1800 people through

After spending the last week in Vancouver demoing our projects at SIGGRAPH 2018, I am thinking back on the months of work that led up to this event and the vision that inspired us. In this vision, we imagined dancing 3D characters that would be animated in real-time with the ability to respond to user

In my last post, I said I would discuss motion capture in relation to keyframe animation. Unfortunately, I was not able to complete everything I wanted for this post due to unforeseen complications with the character rigs. I will talk about the things I was able to finish for this week in this post and

After wrapping on CAVE, today the lab celebrated.  We took an abbreviated tour of the nature around Vancouver, and enjoyed a lovely dinner followed by drinks and great conversation.  I turned in early to give myself time to rest and prepare for our early flight tomorrow night. I have a great deal of admiration for

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This is the SIGGRAPH week, a week that most of my colleagues have prepared for several months. This year, our lab has a CAVE experience demo showing in the East Building, rooms 19/20 of the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, Canada. If you are currently in SIGGRAPH and reading our blogs, I highly recommend you to

“All of these ideas are simple, The problem is making them simple” “It’s not because I am a smart person. It’s because I have smart friends” — Ivan Edward Sutherland — Father of Computer Graphics Feel so lucky to be there, facing the legend, listening to the old story, imaging how ideas came up 50 years