Tokyo at night is one of the world's most beautiful locations. The architecture combined with a massive quantity of illuminated signs creates a visual complexity rarely seen elsewhere. The challenge was to recreate the emotional impact and excitement of downtown Tokyo but maintain the visual style of "Cars 2".

Tracing Home participating artists casually explain and discuss their works, process, and ideas . These talks are followed by short Q & A sessions and an opportunity to meet and chat with the artists. All talks are presented in the Art Gallery.

The trademark look of Rapunzel in Disney's "Tangled" presented unique challenges in grooming, rendering, and pipeline management. This talk discusses the original hair road map, changes required during production, and how the XGen system was used for grooming, rendering, and managing the hair data.

ArtRage (owned by Ambient Design) is an easy-to-use, stylish painting package for Windows, Mac OS X, and iPad. This session explains the basics of ArtRage's painting functionality for texturing and art.

This paper addresses the problem of transferring facial components between images with different expressions. Expression Flow is a 2D flow field that warps the target face globally so that the warped face becomes compatible with the new feature to be blended in.

With this new technique, weathering data can be extracted from photographs of real scenes and applied to generate similar weathering appearance in new environments. Stains produced by fluid flow illustrate a representative case.

A method for generating face animations from large image collections of the same person, by computing an optimized, aligned subsequence. This approach is the basis for the Picasa's Face Movies feature. A key contribution of this paper is proving why the cross dissolve produces a strong motion effect.

A data-driven method for synthesizing phenomena characterized by repetitive discrete elements, such as a stack of fresh produce, a plate of noodles, or a mosaic pattern. The method is general and easy to use, requiring only a small input exemplar and a coarse output domain.

An overview of the new functionality and improvements in the Rhinoceros 5.0 update.

This session is for attendees from San Francisco who are interested in the re-opening of the San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter.

JogAmp provides JOGL (OpenGL) and JOCL (OpenCL) across devices on top of Java. This session showcases resolution-independent curve, font, and UI GPU rendering on desktop and mobile (Android, etc.) devices.

The Academic Infrastructure of Innovative and Successful Video Games
A detailed look at the academic infrastructure of interactive media technologies and the special emphasis placed on incorporating innovative game design and gameplay mechanics to make video games highly successful and marketable.

With these new techniques for rendering translucent materials such as human skin, modified diffusion theory and a new quantized-diffusion method derive efficient and accurate scattering functions for both offline and real-time rendering.

A novel, comprehensive theory of volumetric radiance estimation that leads to new insights and includes all previous radiance estimates as special cases. The authors use this theory to develop a more efficient rendering method for participating media based on "photon beams".

A novel formulation of progressive photon mapping based on a probabilistic derivation. Unlike the original progressive photon-mapping algorithm, this method does not require maintenance of local photon statistics. It extends progressive photon mapping to arbitrary kernels and includes stochastic ray tracing and volumetric photon mapping.

A novel heuristic ray-reordering method for incoherent secondary rays. Its benefits are demonstrated in two stochastic rendering methods and different cache levels.

Traditionally, modeling urban spaces has been a mostly manual task that consumes significant amounts of resources. With the growing requirements of quantity and quality in urban content, there is an imperative need for alternative solutions that allow for fast, semiautomatic urban modeling. This course explains new modeling techniques for urban environments as an important complement to traditional modeling software. It explains how to use procedural, image-based, and simulation-based techniques to efficiently create highly detailed three-dimensional urban models for computer games, movies, architecture, and urban planning.

The course surveys five major topics:

• Urban layouts and road modeling
• Computational building design
• Image-based modeling of facades and buildings
• Urban simulation and visualization work
• Procedural urban modeling in industry

COURSE SCHEDULE

2 pm
Introduction

2:10 pm
Urban Layouts and Road Networks
Aliaga

2:40 pm
Computational Building Design
Wonka

3:05 pm
Image-based Buildings and Façades
Aliaga & Wonka

3:30 pm
Break

3:45 pm
Bridging the gap between Urban Simulation and Urban Modeling
Vanegas

4:20 pm
Procedural Urban Modeling in the Industry
Müller

4:50 pm
Modeling the City of London in Cars 2
Frederickson

5:05 pm
Final Remarks