SIGGRAPH and Access Grid

According to Wikipedia:

SIGGRAPH is the name of the annual conference of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). It stands for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques. It draws thousands of people from companies and schools in the areas of engineering, video gaming, graphics, and motion pictures. In 2008 SIGGRAPH Asia held a conference in Singapore. Highlights of the conference include the Animation Theater and Electronic Theater presentations where recently created CGI movies are played.



According to Access Grid.org

"The Access Grid is an ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments. These resources are used to support group-to-group interactions across the Grid."

I find it interesting that technology has moved so quickly. It was not long ago that video conferencing was cutting edge. Now it's gotten to the point where entire immersive multimedia experiences can be shared with people across the globe.

Interesting FYI: Cut-up method

Gleaned from the Wikipedia article.

The cut-up technique involves taking a perfectly coherent block of text and then cutting it up into pieces, with a few words or a phrase on each piece. The resulting pieces are then rearranged and re-formed to create new sentences and passages. It is a process stemming from the Surrealists in the 1920s. It was popularized by the writer William S. Burroughs in the 1950s and 1960s.

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