Members of the Art Galley committee offer 30-minute guided tours to introduce visitors to Tracing Home and some of the specific artworks displayed in the exhibition. The daily tours begin in the Art Gallery.

Ping Fu, founder and CEO of Geomagic Inc., describes her journey from a computer science student to a computer graphics pioneer and ultimately an entrepreneur dedicated to advancing and applying 3D technology for the benefit of humanity. Her talk weaves technology, applications, and social impact to illustrate the importance of visual computing and its contribution to everyday life today and in the future.

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

A general framework for performing curvature-aware geometry processing through solution of a screened Poisson equation and a parallel streaming implementation for constructing and solving the associated linear system at interactive rates.

The double insertion, non-uniform, stationary subdivision surface (DINUS) generalizes both the non-uniform, bicubic spline surface and the Catmull-Clark subdivision surface. DINUS allows arbitrary knot intervals on the edges, allows incorporation of special features, and provides limit point as well as limit normal rules.

By interpolating basis functions built on the Sinc function with a Guassian multiplier, this technique constructs freeform interpolatory curves and surfaces through scattered data points.

How to creatively integrate 3D models into Photoshop CS5 Extended to create concept art. This session focuses on how to import, texture, and build a mate painting with third-party 3D models in CS5.

This overview of the state of CG in Latino countries includes a special presentation by various studios in Latin America, including 3D Animation Rocks, the largest animation school in Argentina, and a university in Chile. The session ends with a celebratory piñata.

Sandro Alberti
salberti (at) siggraph.org

There are strong indications that the future of interactive graphics programming is a more flexible model than today’s OpenGL/Direct3D pipelines. Graphics developers need to have a basic understanding of how to combine emerging parallel programming techniques and more flexible graphics processors with the traditional interactive-rendering pipeline.

As the second in a series, this course introduces trends and directions in this emerging field: parallel graphics architectures, parallel programming models for graphics, and how game developers are investigating the use of these new capabilities in future rendering engines.

COURSE SCHEDULE

2 pm
Welcome and Re-Introduction
Houston

2:05 pm
Toward a Blurry Rasterizer (State of the Art)
Munkberg

2:45 pm
Order-independent transparency (state of the Art)
Salvi

3:15 pm
Interactive Global Illumination (State of the Art)
Wyman

3:45 pm
User-Defined Pipelines for Ray Tracing
Parker

4:15 pm
Panel: "What Is the Right Cross-Platform Abstraction Level for Real-Time 3D Rendering?"
Moderator:
Peter-Pike Sloan, Disney Interactive

Panelists:
David Blythe, Intel Corporation
Raja Koduri, Apple, Inc.
Henry Moreton, NVIDIA Corporation
Mike Houston, AMD
Chas Boyd, Microsoft

This workshop is a sequel to Creation of Your Own Digital Fashion Show. Advanced topics include: how to create a custom body; edit the patterns; create and apply darts, gathers, and pleats to the patterns; render and create high-resolution images; and import and export body and clothing data between Maya and the Digital Clothing Suite. Finished animations are shown in The Studio, where attendees vote on their favorite designs. The best designer receives a six-month free trial of the Digital Clothing Suite.

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.

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.