SIGGRAPH2009 is expanding into several new areas this year including Audio, Realtime rendering, and Gaming. Ronen Barzel sits down to tell us what we can expect.
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A map showing the density of four-year universities and colleges by U.S. state with Fall 2007 acceptance rates and 2008-09 tuition and fees.
Paste Magazine looks at some of the shorts Pixar created in the decade prior to their smash hit Toy Story.
New information coming from Google indicates that they’ve begun to focus heavily on integrating Native Client support into Chromium, using it as the deployment method for O3D Support.
The Autodesk Assistance Program offers free training resources and software to all, hoping to get recently unemployed graphics artists and modelers back into the industry.
A new project available on Google Code uses NVidia’s CUDA SDK to simulate electromagnetic effects and then render them via OpenGL.
Lawrence Witmer at Ohio University specializes in the 3D visualization of dinosaur and modern mammalian skulls to understand the “functional morphology of the heads of vertebrates”.
Researchers from several DOE labs attempted to visualize isosurfaces and volume renderings in parallel on 2-terapoint datasets using VisIt.
A completely javascript-based Navier-Stokes equation solver showcases the power of the new javascript engines in modern browsers.
Jennifer Bove of Creativity Online sits down with two experts in the field, Stamen Design’s Tom Carden and Dopplr.com’s Boris Anthony to discuss why infovis has become so popular.
A paper from Yuko Uematsu and Hideo Saito demonstrates a way to integrated augmented reality systems into sports entertainment.
A trio of new online webinars from NVidia will introduce optimization techniques and performance considerations for CUDA programming.