 By Kevin Kelly
el 15-Aug-2008 | Filed under: Culture, Features, Business, Casual, Galleries
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We headed into the wonderific CGI fray known as SIGGRAPH this year, and we definitely need to start checking this out more often. The tehcnical conference just entered its 35th year, and is an acronym for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques. While it's evolved into a pretty glorified job fair, they still show off new and impressive technology, have a large section focusing on papers relating to innovation in the field of computer graphics (like this year's "Simulating Knitted Cloth at the Yarn Level," and feature a fun Computer Animation Festival component, which features dozens of short CGI films in competition.
The only gaming companies we noticed in attendance were Activision, LucasArts, and THQ, which were mostly "we want to hire you!" booths (which included this novel comic book from Human Nature), but a lot of the tech behind games was being shown as well. NVIDIA was demoing "the world's first fully interactive GPU-based ray tracer," and the Mova Contour system was showing off their futuristic looking rig. Plus, it now seems like everyone and their uncle is creating 3D printers that pump out plastic models, but that doesn't mean we don't want one.
Read on after the break to find out more, explore the gallery below, and be sure to watch the video that got the biggest laugh, just ahead.
Gallery: SIGGRAPH 08
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