Birds of a Feather
: Virtual Reality in Education
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeSunday, 12 August 20189am - 11am
LocationPacific Rim 1, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionThis Birds of a Feather is for attendees interested in virtual reality's roll in education, including teaching VR and using VR as a teaching tool.
Organizer
Tabitha Peck
Davidson College
Birds of a Feather
: International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest (IVRC)
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeSunday, 12 August 201810am - 11am
LocationACM SIGGRAPH Theater, West Building, Room 102, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThe International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest (IVRC) is a contest that assesses the innovation, technical challenges, and impact of interactive products designed and created by students.
Organizers
Akihiko SHIRAI
IVRC Executive committee
Laval Virtual
Laurent CHRETIEN
Laval Virtual
Birds of a Feather
: Demoscene Underground Real-Time Art Worldwide
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeSunday, 12 August 201812:30pm - 2pm
LocationACM SIGGRAPH Theater, West Building, Room 102, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionDemoscene was born in the computer underground, and demos are the product of extreme programming and self-expression. This session reveals the best of new and old-school demoscene.
Organizer
Tomasz Bednarz
UNSW Art & Design
CSIRI Data61
Birds of a Feather
: Integration of complex system simulation and data analysis into undergraduate curriculum
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeSunday, 12 August 20181pm - 2pm
LocationPacific Rim 1, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionA discussion of an integrated teaching approach in computer simulation, modeling, data analysis, and validation in undergraduate curriculum using various technologies. A presentation includes crowd simulator for police and counter-terrorism.
Organizers
Kyungjae Lee
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Andrew Park
Thompson Rivers University
Marty Witt
Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group
Spektar Aerospace Inc
Birds of a Feather
: Blender Foundation - Community meeting
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeSunday, 12 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationPacific Rim 2, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionBlender chairman Ton Roosendaal presents last year's achievements and a peek forward into next year. Everyone's welcome to share feedback.
Organizer
Ton Roosendaal
Blender Foundation
Birds of a Feather
: Blender Spotlight
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeSunday, 12 August 20183:30pm - 4:30pm
LocationPacific Rim 2, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionIn this lighting talk event everyone can get 5 minutes to present their work done with the Blender Open Source software. This ranges from software development to art or animation.
Organizers
Ton Roosendaal
Blender Foundation
David Andrade
Theory Studios
Birds of a Feather
: Educator's Reception
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeSunday, 12 August 20183:45pm - 5pm
LocationWest Building, Room 116-117, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThis Bird of Feathers is for all educators attending the conference. Come and meet other educators.
Organizer
Tereza Flaxman
San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH
Birds of a Feather
: Spanish speakers in Animation and VFX Meetup
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeSunday, 12 August 20184pm - 4:30pm
LocationPacific Rim 1, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionA place to chat about our career paths, personal projects or home country industries!
Un espacio para platicar sobre nuestro crecimiento, proyectos personales o la industria en nuestros paises!
Organizer
Hasiel Alvarez
Rainmaker Entertainment
Birds of a Feather
: Beijing Film Academy Reception / Future Visual Entertainment
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeSunday, 12 August 20188:30pm - 10:30pm
LocationMackenzie Ballroom 2, Fairmont Waterfront
DescriptionInvited Only. Join us and meet our scientists to know about the state-of-the-art visual technologies in China. Sponsored by Advanced Innovation Center for Future Visual Entertainment in Beijing Film Academy.
Organizers
Baoquan Chen
Beijing Film Academy
Charles Wang
Beijing Film Academy
Liuchao Yan
Beijing Film Academy
Birds of a Feather
: Taipei ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter Reunion (a.k.a. Taiwan Night)
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeSunday, 12 August 20189pm - 11pm
LocationShaughnessy Salon, Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown
DescriptionThis is the chapter reunion for attendees from Taiwan and everyone interested in graphics in Taiwan.
Organizers
Bing-Yu Chen
National Taiwan University
Yu-Ting Tsai
Yuan Ze University
Birds of a Feather
: Immersive Visualisation for Research, Science and Art
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 20189am - 11am
LocationACM SIGGRAPH Theater, West Building, Room 102, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionIn this session on immersive visualization systems for science and research, scientific visualization information visualization, art and science, invited speakers and panels discuss collaborative initiatives in visualization and visual-analytics frameworks.
Organizers
Tomasz Bednarz
CSRIO Data61
UNSW Art & Design
Birds of a Feather
: MaterialX: An Open Standard for Network-Based CG Object Looks
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 201810:30am - 12pm
LocationPacific Rim 2, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionDiscussion of MaterialX, an open standard for the transfer of rich material and lookdev content between different DCC tools and renderers.
Organizers
Douglas Smythe
Industrial Light & Magic
Jonathan Stone
Lucasfilm Advanced Development Group
Birds of a Feather
: ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization (Carto) Birds of a Feather
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 201812pm - 1:30pm
LocationACM SIGGRAPH Theater, West Building, Room 102, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThe ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization (Carto) session explores how viewpoints and techniques from the computer graphics community can be effectively applied to cartographic and spatial data sets.
Organizer
Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Visualization Consultant
Birds of a Feather
: Meet the Candidates for the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 201812:30pm - 1:30pm
LocationEast Building, Room 11, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionCome meet the candidates vying for Treasurer and Director at Large on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee. Candidates discuss their visions and answer any questions you might have.
Organizer
Rebecca Strzelec
ACM SIGGRAPH
Birds of a Feather
: Maps, Urban Data, and Geocoding in Graphics
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 20181pm - 2pm
LocationEast Building, Room 13, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionWe will discuss emerging graphics and vision approaches for spatial AR/VR, generative geocoding, and deep learning for geospatial data. Let's digitize the world together!
Birds of a Feather
: Open Shading Language
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 20181pm - 2pm
LocationPacific Rim 2, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionFor users and others interested in Open Shading Language, the de-facto standard modern high-end shading language for physically-based rendering. OSL is an open source project.
Organizer
Larry Gritz
Sony Pictures Imageworks
Birds of a Feather
: SIGGRAPH Education Curriculum Sub-committee
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 20181:30pm - 2pm
LocationEast Building, Room 12, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThis Birds of a Feather is for attendees interested in SIGGRAPH-related curricula.
Organizer
Susan Reiser
University of North Carolina at Asheville
Birds of a Feather
: Web3D Korea Chapter Standardization Meeting
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 20183pm - 5pm
LocationGallery Board Room, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionX3D progress and plans for mixed augmented reality, humanoid animation, C++/C# language bindings, and physical sensors. New participants are welcome! 환영합니다
Organizer
Anita Havele
Web3D Consortium
Birds of a Feather
: ACM SIGGRAPH Discussion of New Communities and New Frontiers
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 20183:30pm - 4:30pm
LocationEast Building, Room 10, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionA strategic goal of the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee is to grow the SIGGRAPH Community by bringing in emerging communities and established nearby communities. Help us identify target communities.
Organizer
Adam Bargteil
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Birds of a Feather
: The Massive Collaborative Animation Projects & the Student Experience
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 20183:30pm - 4:30pm
LocationEast Building, Room 13, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThis Birds of a Feather session is geared towards Students and Educators interested in the perspectives of student participants, their personal experiences, and progression of the Massive Collaborative Animation Projects
Organizer
Rebecca Huang
Yale College
Birds of a Feather
: AliceVision: an Open Source Photogrammetry Pipeline in Visual Effects Production
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 20183:30pm - 4:30pm
LocationEast Building, Room 9, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionWe will invite users to discuss AliceVision, a new open source Photogrammetric Computer Vision framework and Meshroom, that allow artists and scientists to customize 3D reconstruction and camera tracking pipelines.
Organizers
Benoit MAUJEAN
Mikros Image
Fabien CASTAN
Mikros Image
Birds of a Feather
: Cryptomatte - Present and Future Uses
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 20183:30pm - 5pm
LocationEast Building, Room 11, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionCryptomatte is here, widely used in the animation industry and implemented by many production renderers. This forum is for users and developers to discuss production use cases and future developments.
Birds of a Feather
: OpenVDB
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 20183:30pm - 5:30pm
LocationEast Building, Room 12, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThis BOF will discuss various topics on the open source project OpenVDB, including a new governance, novel collaborations and contributions, ideas and plans for future development, and Q&A.
Hope-to-see-you-there,
Ken
Organizer
Ken Museth
Weta Digital
SpaceX
Birds of a Feather
: TG-CG: Transgendered Networking and Open Discussion
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 20184:30pm - 5:30pm
LocationEast Building, Room 13, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionAn open discussion with other CG professionals who are transgendered, intersexed, or non-binary; as well as anybody who supports the TG community in the Visual Effects industry.
Birds of a Feather
: Global VFX Pipelines
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 20185pm - 7pm
LocationPacific Rim 2, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionAn informal gathering for anyone interested in hearing about and discussing the latest trends in production pipelines.
Organizers
Fran Zandonella Benjamin
The Mill
Alexis Casas
Mercenaries Engineering
Birds of a Feather
: UW CSE Reunion Gathering
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeMonday, 13 August 20185:30pm - 8:30pm
LocationPoint Grey, Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown
DescriptionBy invitation only: Faculty and researchers affiliated with the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering School, gather to talk with each other over drinks and snacks.
Organizers
David Kessler
University of Washington
Aditya Sankar
University of Washington
Birds of a Feather
: Academy Software Foundation
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20189am - 10am
LocationEast Building, Room 11, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionJoin us for the announcement and discussion of the Academy Software Foundation, a new organization designed to support open source development in the entertainment industry.
Organizers
Rob Bredow
SVP, Executive Creative Director / Head of Industrial Light & MagicIndustrial Light & Magic
Birds of a Feather
: Leonardo: Where Ideas Don't Take Sides
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 201810am - 11:30am
LocationArt Gallery, West Building, Exhibit Hall A, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionLeonardo/ISAST has supported big ideas of art/sci/tech since 1968. We are reaching out to thought leaders and the curious in an effort to nurture the exploding art/science/technology global community.
Organizer
Erica Hruby
Leonardo/ISAST
Birds of a Feather
: Emphasizing Empathy in the Pipeline Process
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 201810:30am - 11:30am
LocationEast Building, Room 10, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThis Birds of a Feather is for Education and Production professionals interested in discussing an emotionally intelligent project management style as applied to collaborative pipeline-based projects.
Organizer
Claudia Davis
Yale University
Birds of a Feather
: OpenEXR
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 201810:30am - 11:30am
LocationEast Building, Room 13, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionDiscuss the latest on OpenEXR and future areas of development.
Organizer
Francois Chardavoine
Lucasfilm
Birds of a Feather
: CesiumJS: 3D Globes on the Web
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 201810:30am - 12pm
LocationACM SIGGRAPH Theater, West Building, Room 102, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionA discussion of the latest news and community activity in the open-source CesiumJS project for 3D globes built on WebGL and discussion of 3D Tiles for streaming massive 3D models.
Organizer
Patrick Cozzi
Cesium
University of Pennsylvania
Birds of a Feather
: VR/MR/AR 4 Good: Creating with a Purpose
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 201810:30am - 12:30pm
LocationEast Building, Room 11, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionDiscuss how to "create for good" with an opportunity to meet like-minded individuals. Presented case studies stimulate a discussion, followed by hands-on experiential prototyping of ideas from our discussion.
Organizers
Bernhard E. Riecke
Simon Fraser University
School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT)
Patrick Pennefather
Centre for Digital Media
Denise Quesnel
Simon Fraser University
School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT)
Birds of a Feather
: Internships and Related Curriculum
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 201811am - 12pm
LocationEast Building, Room 12, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThis BOF is for attendees interested in the role of internships and related curriculum in higher-ed animation programs. Sponsored by ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Educators Forum.
Organizers
John Reid Perkins-Buzo
Southern Illinois University
David Mauriello
Drexel University
Birds of a Feather
: ACESNext: Charting the Future of ACES
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 201811:30am - 1pm
LocationCrystal Pavilion A, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionJoin the first public discussion of consolidated industry preferences on features, timing and process for the next version of ACES! Catch up on new ACES components and documentation. Refreshments served.
Organizers
Annie Chang
Universal Pictures
ACES
Birds of a Feather
: Bridging the Gap: VFX/Anim Production Scheduling & Software Dev/Rollout - Open Discussion
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 201812pm - 1:30pm
LocationPacific Rim 2, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionBased on 2017's "Bridging the Gap" discussion, this juxtaposes Production and Software Development resource scheduling. We strongly encourage Production and Technologists to attend both parts of the discussion. See www.jdamato.com/siggraph
Organizer
Joe &. Johanna D'Amato
jdamato.com
Birds of a Feather
: Teaching Virtual Reality
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20181pm - 2pm
LocationEast Building, Room 10, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionHow do you teach to the rapidly evolving technologies of virtual and augmented reality? This session is a discussion of curricular and pedagogic approaches to VR instruction.
Organizer
Brian Andrews
DePaul University
Birds of a Feather
: OpenColorIO Meetup
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20181pm - 2pm
LocationEast Building, Room 13, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionUpdates on the status of OpenColorIO (OCIO) and a chance for in-person dialog among OCIO developers and users.
Organizer
Michael Dolan
Sony Pictures Imageworks
Birds of a Feather
: Sharing Ideas in Teaching 3D Animation
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20181:30pm - 2:30pm
LocationEast Building, Room 12, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThis session is to provide educators an opportunity to
share new ideas in the field of teaching 3d animation.
Session open to anyone also interested in entering the field.
Organizer
Richard Lapidus
Moraine Valley Community College
Moraine Valley Community College
Birds of a Feather
: Going Cloud Native
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20182pm - 3pm
LocationEast Building, Room 11, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionJoin a continued discussion with key representatives from the graphics community who will compare experiences and explore techniques related to pushing the production pipeline and correlated resources toward the Cloud.
Organizer
Doug Sherman
DreamWorks Animation
Birds of a Feather
: State of Animation Tools in the Industry
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20182pm - 4pm
LocationCypress Suite, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionSimilar to our Siggraph 2017 BOF, we invite animators, riggers, and engineers to discuss animation tools used in the industry (third party and proprietary) as well as related topics.
Organizer
Paul DiLorenzo
DreamWorks Animation
Birds of a Feather
: Realtime Rendering in Architecture, Product Visualization and More
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20182:30pm - 4pm
LocationEast Building, Room 13, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionAn open round table discussion about the uses of Realtime Rendering, VR and AR in architecture, product rendering and other unconventional ways.
Birds of a Feather
: Cloud Rendering
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20183pm - 4pm
LocationEast Building, Room 11, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionGeneral discussion of cloud-based rendering: problems, solutions and best practices. Technical details related to networking, storage, performance, etc. Discussions around other cloud workloads are most welcome, eg. simulations and transcoding.
Birds of a Feather
: Fashioning Tech: the History of the CyberFashion Show and Future of Wearable Technology at SIGGRAPH
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20183pm - 4pm
LocationEast Building, Room 12, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionHistory of the epic SIGGRAPH runway show (2002-2005) told by its founder, curator and cyborg host. Followed by interactive, audience-centric discussion of the present and future of wearable technology @SIGGRAPH.
Birds of a Feather
: OpenTimelineIO: Official Open-source Meet Up
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20183pm - 4pm
LocationEast Building, Room 1, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionProgress update and open discussion about OpenTimelineIO, an API and interchange format for editorial cut information used in production at a variety of studios.
Organizer
Kyle McDaniel
Pixar Animation Studios
Birds of a Feather
: Autonomous Driving Simulation and Visualization
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20183pm - 4:30pm
LocationEast Building, Room 10, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionAutonomous vehicles require millions upon millions of test miles. Learn how computer graphics and simulation techniques can make autonomous vehicle testing more efficient and safe.
Organizers
Patrick Cozzi
Cesium
University of Pennsylvania
Vangelis Kokkevis
Toyota Research Institute
Birds of a Feather
: Online Collaboration with Virtual Studio Production
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20183:30pm - 4:30pm
LocationPacific Rim 2, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionJoin us, where we will explore the concepts of virtualization in the production workflow for film, television, animation, gaming, and VR/AR.
Organizer
Shane Davis
Theory Studios
IBM
Birds of a Feather
: USD and OpenSubdiv: Official Open-source Meet Up
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20184pm - 6pm
LocationEast Building, Room 1, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionJoin the discussion with the developers and users of Universal Scene Description (USD) and OpenSubdiv, who will showcase the work done in the past year and plans ahead.
Birds of a Feather
: Renderfarming
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20184:30pm - 5:30pm
LocationEast Building, Room 13, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionDiscussion of large-scale rendering: renderfarm infrastructure, software and queue management, remote data centres, reliability, and performance.
Birds of a Feather
: Dynamic Simulation in Production
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20185:30pm - 7pm
LocationPacific Rim 2, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionThis BOF is for attendees interested in hearing about and discussing the latest trends in dynamic simulation (rigid, cloth, hair, fluids, etc.) in production. Come. Connect. Collaborate. Experience. Enjoy.
Organizer
Mark A. McLaughlin
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Birds of a Feather
: StudioSysAdmins 10 Year Anniversary Studio Mingle
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, 14 August 20187pm - 10pm
LocationCypress Suite, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionJoin the StudioSysAdmins reception to celebrate 10 years of bringing people together to help efficiently solve studio infrastructure/support issues. This is open to everyone, but please RSVP. Space is limited.
Organizer
John Hickson
StudioSysAdmins
Birds of a Feather
: Paving the Way: Digital Art at SIGGRAPH 1980 - 1999
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20189am - 10am
LocationEast Building, Room 11, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionJoin us for a discussion about the early years of SIGGRAPH Art Shows. Share your stories, listen to the adventures of pioneers and learn about the roots of digital arts.
Organizers
Janice Searleman
Clarkson University
Bonnie Mitchell
Bowling Green State University
Birds of a Feather
: Khronos Fast Forward
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20189am - 10am
LocationPinnacle Ballroom, Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown
DescriptionRapid-fire overview of all things Khronos - including updates on Khronos compute, vision and machine learning initiatives not covered in the other BOFs!
Organizer
Neil Trevett
The Khronos Group
Birds of a Feather
: Openscenegraph BOF
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 201810am - 11am
LocationEast Building, Room 12, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThis BOF is for individuals interested in OpenSceneGraph, the open source visualization system. Attendees will be interested in the current state of OpenSceneGraph development and plans for development in 2019.
Birds of a Feather
: glTF: Efficient 3D Models
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 201810am - 11am
LocationPinnacle Ballroom, Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown
DescriptionThe latest news on the glTF tools ecosystem, extensions, and specification. Developers and artists can learn what's new in glTF, the efficient API-neutral 3D format with PBR materials.
Birds of a Feather
: Creating Compelling CG worlds at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 201810am - 12pm
LocationEast Building, Room 13, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionJPL uses VR, data visualization and commercial-off-the-shelf software to create worlds that are precise scientific tools. JPL visualization experts show how CG is used for Earth and space science. https://bit.ly/2LEfhqd
Organizers
Rebecca Perry
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Peter Lish
Smarttalk Communications
Birds of a Feather
: Motion Capture Society
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 201810:30am - 12pm
LocationEast Building, Room 10, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionA place to swap mocap techniques, new developments and war stories. All people are welcome to attend, regardless of mocap experience!
Organizer
Troy McFarland
Bungie, Inc
Birds of a Feather
: SIGGRAPH50 2023 - Start planning for the 50th Conference
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 201810:30am - 12:30pm
LocationPacific Rim 1, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionThe 50th SIGGRAPH Conference is now just 5 years away in 2023. We need to start planning now so bring your ideas and thoughts to share.
Organizer
Terrence Masson
School of Visual Arts
Birds of a Feather
: Gaffer : Open Source Lookdev, Lighting, and Automation
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 201811am - 12pm
LocationEast Building, Room 11, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionDiscussion of the latest developments from the Gaffer community. Gaffer is an open source node-based application for procedural scene generation, shader authoring, rendering, basic image compositing, and pipeline automation.
Organizers
Andrew Kaufman
Image Engine Design Inc.
Birds of a Feather
: Immersive Media BOF
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 201811am - 12pm
LocationEast Building, Room 12, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThis BOF is for attendees interested in emerging technologies for achieving six degrees of freedom playback experiences of live and pre-recorded real world events, such as sports and movies.
Birds of a Feather
: WebGL: Latest Techniques
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 201811am - 12pm
LocationPinnacle Ballroom, Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown
DescriptionCome see the latest techniques for deploying GPU-accelerated 3D content to the World Wide Web via HTML5 and WebGL. Meet the community and ask your pressing questions!
Organizers
Simon Kallweit
Esri R&D Center Zurich
Adrian Blumer
Esri R&D Center Zurich
Omar Shehata
AGI
oshehata@agi.com
Birds of a Feather
: Design Printing and Scanning: Web3D Makers Making More!
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 201811am - 12:30pm
LocationWest Building, Room 116-117, Vancouver Convention Centre
Description3D-CAD models reach beyond the screen to physical objects. Intelligent X3D applications link 3D printing and scanning. How can we integrate 3D publishing further in new devices and authoring toolchains.
Organizer
Anita Havele
Web3D Consortium
Birds of a Feather
: Mobile VR/AR Meetup
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 201812pm - 1pm
LocationEast Building, Room 12, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionCome share your VR creations, inquiries, and ideas. Bring your headsets, demos, and questions. Whether you are experienced or getting started, come network and collaborate with the VR development community.
Birds of a Feather
: VFX Reference Platform - A Common Target for Building VFX Software
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 201812:30pm - 1:30pm
LocationEast Building, Room 10, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionHear the latest on the VFX Reference Platform, including plans for Python 3, and discuss software versioning challenges and opportunities with your peers from both studios and software vendors.
Organizers
Nick Cannon
VFX Reference Platform
Francois Chardavoine
VFX Reference Platform
Birds of a Feather
: WebVR Evolution for a Larger Web
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 201812:30pm - 2pm
LocationWest Building, Room 116-117, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionUpcoming X3D Specification improvements add full Web integration, Physically Based Rending, and VR/AR/Mixed Reality. What other capabilities does the SIGGRAPH community need for 3D publishing on the Web?
Organizer
Anita Havele
Web3D Consortium
Birds of a Feather
: ISEA International - Open Forum
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 201812:30pm - 2pm
LocationACM SIGGRAPH Theater, West Building, Room 102, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionIt will include information about ISEA2019, the 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art, to be held in Gwangju, South Korea: Lux Aeterna - City of Light, plus ISEA2020 Winnipeg, Canada.
Organizer
Sue Gollifer
ISEA International
ISEA International
Birds of a Feather
: Berthouzoz Women in Research Lunch
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 201812:30pm - 2pm
LocationCypress Suite, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionThis Birds of a Feather is for female-identifying researchers, faculty, and graduate students in computer graphics.
Birds of a Feather
: Material Definition Language (MDL): Application Independent PBR Materials
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 201812:30pm - 2pm
LocationEast Building, Room 13, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionMeet users and developers at this 3rd BoF for an open discussion. Get updates from and share ideas with everybody interested in MDL.
Birds of a Feather
: Make a Difference - Get Involved with the SIGGRAPH Education Committee
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20181pm - 1:30pm
LocationEast Building, Room 12, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThis BOF is for attendees interested in getting involved with the Education Committee.
Learn what we do, and how to get involved with a community that supports innovation and creativity.
Birds of a Feather
: Standardizing All the Realities: A Look at OpenXR
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20181pm - 2pm
LocationPinnacle Ballroom, Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown
DescriptionWe’ll give an update on the technical details of the of the OpenXR standard for virtual and augmented reality, including the application and device interfaces, and interoperability between different hardware.
Birds of a Feather
: DCAJ Presentation "Advanced Content Technology in Japan”
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20182pm - 3pm
LocationACM SIGGRAPH Theater, West Building, Room 102, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionWe will introduce most advanced content technology in Japan at the DCAJ Session.
Please join us to know Japan's cool technology!
Birds of a Feather
: It's Time to Kill the Demo Reel
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20182pm - 3pm
LocationEast Building, Room 10, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionWhat is the future of demo reels in a world of XR, emerging tech, and storytelling techniques? What will studios need to see? What role will educational institutions play?
Organizer
Colin Giles
Vancouver Film School
Birds of a Feather
: Python in Production
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20182pm - 3pm
LocationEast Building, Room 13, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionAn open discussion about Python's use in both VFX and game production environments. Topics to include: popular packages, environment managers, Python 3 migration, linters, education and more.
Birds of a Feather
: Scaling Up 3D Medical Applications for People Everywhere
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationWest Building, Room 116-117, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionData-harmonization efforts by Web3D, DICOM and HL7 are working to support medical visualization, analytics, and electronic publication medical records. Whatelse is needed to make 3D capabilities available to support everyone?
Organizer
Anita Havele
Web3D Consortium
Birds of a Feather
: British Columbia Virtual and Augmented Reality BOF Gathering
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationEast Building, Room 11, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionNetworking meeting for the British Columbia Virtual and Augmented Reality Community, including round-table introductions, discussions, small-group mixed academic-industry brainstorming, collaboration
and project ideation.
Organizers
Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
Simon Fraser University
SIAT, School of Interactive Arts & Technology
Yvonne Coady
University of Victoria
Bernhard Riecke
Simon Fraser University
SIAT, School of Interactive Arts & Technology
Birds of a Feather
: Computer Graphics for Simulation BOF
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationEast Building, Room 12, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThis BOF is for attendees from the Computer Graphics and VR/AR community interested in interfacing with Simulation Theory, Human Factors, and Simulation tools such as MATLAB/SIMULINK, Mathematica/System Modeler, and others.
Birds of a Feather
: 3D Graphics with Vulkan and OpenGL
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20182pm - 5:30pm
LocationPinnacle Ballroom, Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown
DescriptionSee what’s happening with Khronos' open standard native 3D APIs! Get the latest about technical features, applications, tools, and ecosystem developments in Vulkan and OpenGL that’s driving 3D graphics forward.
Organizers
Neil Trevett
NVIDIA
The Khronos Group
Birds of a Feather
: Women in Technology: Breaking Barriers
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20183pm - 4pm
LocationPacific Rim 1, Pan Pacific Hotel
DescriptionJoin female CG professionals to discuss how to create a positive work environment by eliminating obstacles. Talk about what holds us back and share how we have navigated similar problems.
Organizer
Doeri Welch
DreamWorks Animation
Birds of a Feather
: Undergraduate Research Alliance
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20183pm - 4pm
LocationEast Building, Room 13, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThe Undergraduate Research Alliance provides a venue for educators to come and discuss recent research efforts with undergraduates, as well as learn how to organize undergraduate research.
Organizer
William J. Joel
Graphics & Interactive Techniques Research Group
Western Connecticut State University
Birds of a Feather
: Massive Collaborative Animation Projects
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20184pm - 5pm
LocationACM SIGGRAPH Theater, West Building, Room 102, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThe Massive Collaborative Animation Projects is an initiative created two years ago to provide a framework for students from institutions around the world to join together in animation projects.
Organizer
William J. Joel
Graphics & Interactive Techniques Research Group
Western Connecticut State University
Birds of a Feather
: Florida Animation, Games, & Computer Graphics Community
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20184pm - 5pm
LocationEast Building, Room 11, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThis BOF gathers leading Florida professionals and academics to share experiences in this HOT area of new, developing CG industries. Anyone interested in Florida's CG community is invited to attend.
Organizer
Francis McAfee
Florida Atlantic University
Downtown FX, Inc
Birds of a Feather
: HLSL Realtime Shading Language
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20184pm - 5pm
LocationEast Building, Room 12, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionNow that HLSL is on GitHub and supported in Vulkan, Direct3D, etc., and contributed to W3C, this forum lets contributors and fans discuss its current status and future evolution.
Organizer
Chas. Boyd
www.microsoft.com
www.microsoft.com
Birds of a Feather
: ACCAD / Ohio State University Gathering
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20184pm - 6pm
LocationBurrard Suite, Fairmont Waterfront
DescriptionGathering for Ohio State University /ACCAD alumni, current faculty, staff and students. Sponsored by the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts & Design (ACCAD)
Organizer
Elaine Smith
Ohio State University
ACCAD
Birds of a Feather
: Khronos Networking Reception
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeWednesday, 15 August 20185:30pm - 8:30pm
LocationPinnacle Ballroom, Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown
DescriptionJoin us after a full day of technical sessions to have a beer or two, talk with Khronos presenters, see demos, and network with fellow developers.
Organizer
Neil Trevett
The Khronos Group
Birds of a Feather
: "Others" in Computer Graphics: Diversity, Inclusion & Technology
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeThursday, 16 August 201811am - 11:30am
LocationEast Building, Room 13, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionInterested in meeting "others' from underrepresented groups in computer graphics? Celebrate pride and belonging in art, engineering, and computer science as part of the ACM SIGGRAPH Diversity and Inclusion Summit.
Organizers
Daniel Pillis
Virginia Tech
Carnegie Mellon University
Tony Baylis
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Birds of a Feather
: Renderfarms and Machine Learning
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeThursday, 16 August 201811am - 12pm
LocationEast Building, Room 11, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionA discussion about how Machine Learning techniques can be applied to maximize render farm utilization and efficiency. Data pipelines, ML frameworks, operationalizing models, influencing the farm secheduler, assesing results.
Organizer
Mark Jackels
DreamWorks Animation
Birds of a Feather
: French Schools Screening
Event TypeBirds of a Feather
TimeThursday, 16 August 201812:30pm - 2pm
LocationACM SIGGRAPH Theater, West Building, Room 102, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThis Paris chapter program is a selection of 19 short films from the various French animation schools. It aims at covering the whole spectrum of creative animation (duration = 90mn).
Organizer
Pierre Hénon
Paris ACM SIGGRAPH
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