August 2012 – At Siggraph 2012, ARM was showing the results of their new silicon for their second generation graphics cores in the Mali T600 family. While showing off existing products with their Mali400 series cores that are the dominant graphics in the Samsung SII and SIII mobile phones. The new cores the T624 and…
August 6, 2012, Siggraph, Los Angeles—A panel from the production group described their efforts in creating the effects and action in “The Avengers”. The mixing of effects into live action, had the challenge of maintaining flow and human body responses in a CG world. This was an opportunity to integrate a wide range of super…
August 7, 2012, Siggraph, Los Angeles—We talked with Zoran Veselic from Christie about their HoloStation. The system is intended for scientific visualization and simulation where interactive immersion is needed. This is a four projector personal-sized CAVE (Computer Assisted Virtual Environment) for users who need a smaller environment than the traditional caves, which are the size…
August 8. 2012, Siggraph, Los Angles—We talked with Larry Paul from Christie about high frame rate projectors for cinema. The changes in projection will be as significant as those from film to digital, and will focus on perceived image resolution. This transition is being driven by the oncoming changes in cinema from 2k to 4k…
August 8. 2012, Siggraph, Los Angeles—The Jon Peddie Research organization presented some research findings on the growth of hardware for the computer graphics markets. After the presentation, a short panel discussed the impact of multi-core processors on their graphics work. Although growth has been uneven, it has been averaging over $10B per decade, and seems…
August 7, 2012, Siggraph, Los Angeles—We talked with Adam Glick from AMD about their accelerated processor products. The new integrated processors can accelerate the workflows for graphics workers by offering high performance at low power. AMD is positioning the latest chip as the first part in this next generation of computing. The entry-level workstation platform,…
August 7, 2012, Siggraph, Los Angeles—We talked with Steve Cooper of Smith Micro Software about their graphics creation and control tools. This interesting set of tools offer an entry point into the various functions needed for characters and bodies. The tools are not all inclusive, but can interface to other tools in the workflow to…
August 6, 2012, Siggraph, Los Angeles—The production team from Pixomondo described their efforts for Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo”. The size and scale of the production dwarfed previous efforts and the production in 3-D exacerbated the problems. The sets for this movie were very large, some were 4 times larger than the largest studios. As a result,…
August 6, 2012, SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles—Jane McGonigal from the Institute for the Future described ongoing research that relates game play with changes in the brain. She made an effort to dispel the commonly held notion that playing games is a waste of time. A perceived problem is that people change their lives to play computer…
August 8, 2011, Siggraph, Vancouver—The Khronos Group released announced new standard releases and announced new working groups for cloud processing and sensor processing and user interaction. The latest releases address cross platform desktop 3D, embedded and mobile 3D, other advanced graphics functions, and plug-in free 3-D web. Khronos and its members organizations (currently comprised of…