BenCon's WebLogWindows User Interface Musings2B0ST0N6 day five- August 9, 2006 Note: This is really late in being posted, but I had work to catch up on when I got back :) The last day of SIGGRAPH 2006. I divided my time between papers and sketches, so there was a lot to push into my already overloaded and sleep deprived brain at this stage. But I gave it a college try. The first paper that I caught was most of the "Streaming Computation of Delaunay Triangulations" paper. The main advantage of this approach was being able to do both the input and output of the...http://blogs.msdn.com/bencon/archive/2006/08/08/692786.aspx 2B0ST0N6 day four- August 6, 2006 The first thing that I saw on day four was the paper "Photo Tourism: Exploring Photo Collections in 3D". It demonstrated a system for taking a collection of images that were taken in a similar area (such as in a town square), extracting features common across the photos, and using those features to estimate the position of those features in space. An application for efficiently browsing this space was also presented. This technology can be seen in Photosynth, from Live Labs. This is an awesome.http://blogs.msdn.com/bencon/archive/2006/08/05/689815.aspx 2B0ST0N6 day three- August 2, 2006 Today I tried to get an early start on the day by avoiding the infamous Boston Big Dig inspired traffic and walking to the convention center. It was a great route that took me past the Boston Common and through Chinatown, and past a very Bostonian train station (South Station). I don't know if the walk was faster than waiting for the shuttle, but I did make it to the first paper talk of the morning. The first paper was "Real-Time GPU Rendering of Piecewise Algebraic Surfaces". This is a paper...http://blogs.msdn.com/bencon/archive/2006/08/02/686796.aspx 2B0ST0N6 day two- August 1, 2006 The second day was very different to the first, with some papers being presented, a trip through the art gallery and the animation theatre at night. Due to some traffic snarling, I missed the first couple of papers in the morning (a situation that I rectified the next day by walking past the Boston Common to get to the convention center instead of taking a bus). I did manage to pick up two paper presentations from the morning session, though. The first one was "A Spatial Structure for Fast...http://blogs.msdn.com/bencon/archive/2006/08/01/685242.aspx |