SIGGRAPH, the annual computer graphics conference, is "the ultimate techie summer camp," says Coco Conn, conference co-chair. SIGGRAPH has come a long way from 1973, when it was just a bunch of academics trying to figure out how to draw realistic-looking images. This year's conference will attract almost 30,000 people and will have three theaters showing the latest in computer animation, an exhibit hall full of bleeding-edge interactive entertainment systems, and a massive gigabit-per-second fiber network to link it all together.
The wealth of exhibits is an indicator of just how far the computer graphics industry has progressed in the last 20 years. Creating new products, rather than technical minutiae, is what today's SIGGRAPH is all about. Says Conn of the conference: "It's where the art and technology communities collide head-on." And out of that collision of artists, scientists, and industry honchos comes the new developments that are coloring cyberspace. SIGGRAPH: August 6-11, Los Angeles; +1 (312) 321 6830, or e-mail siggraph95@siggraph.org.
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