SIGGRAPH `97s
Computer Animation Festival
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Enhanced Processor Lifetime
through Deuterium Processing by Benjamin Grosser, Beckman Institute Visualization Facility, Urbana, Illinois. This animation visualizes a recent Beckman Institute Discovery in Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures. The discovery involves a simple change in the way silicon-based chips are processed. The findings should result in increased microchip life and faster speeds. |
 
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The Taj Mahal by Anuj Rawla, VR Real Technologies, Bangalore, India. |
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A Cloud is Born
by David S. Ebert, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Maryland. |
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Some Leaves
by Stuart Sharpe, San Rafael, California. ©1997 Stuart Sharpe. |
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Deadly Mister Misty
by Alison Colman, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. This film is about a little girl whose ice-phobic grandmother unwittingly buys her an icy drink from the local Dairy Queen. Created on a SGI Workstation and Power PC with AL, an ACCAD in-house procedural animation and modeling programming language; Alias; Photo-realistic RenderMan; Fractal Painter. |
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Mandelbloom
by Lewis N. Siegel, USC MFA Animation Program, Los Angeles. This is an aesthetic piece which explores the relationship between fractals, flowers, and form. It demonstrates the evolution of the Mandelbrot set as it evolves through its first several iterations. |
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Open Mike Night
by Jonah Hall, New York. An independent film. |
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Illumination
by Gregory Dismond, Vision International, a division of Autometric. This is a story about the relationships between desire, fear, and conflict. Fears are born out of desire, giving rise to what we experience as opposites. Conflict avoidance buries these already elusive relationships, intensifying our fears and desires. Facing fear is one approach to gaining understanding. Vision International, an Autometric, Incorporated Group. © 1996 Autometric, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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Jack
by Doug Pfeifer, IVI Publishing, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The story of the Jack-in-the-box who gets his legs and then loses them. It has occurred to me that history's greatest tragedies are usually preceded by history's greatest triumphs. One seems to drive the other. |
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Geodesics and Waves
by Konrad Polthier, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany. This film introduces topics of recent work on numerical methods on arbitrary surfaces, their discretization and visualization. Geodesic curves are a fundamental concept in mathematics to generalize the idea of a "straight line" to curves on arbitrary surfaces and in general manifolds. This makes them a suitable tool also for numerical methods. |
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Gabola the Great by Tim Cheung, PDI, Palo Alto, California. Cheung, a recent graduate of Pratt Institute in New York, created this short through the support of PDI, where he is currently working on the animated feature film, Antz. |
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Interactive Virtual Environment
Walkthrough by Kian Bee Ng, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore. |
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The NICE Project by Andrew Johnson, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago |
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Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright's
Vision For America by Max Strang, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, New York. |
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