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Sunday, August 12, 2007
Technology as art
I’ve been to more technology conferences than I can remember, but one of the coolest 
had to be last week’s SIGGRAPH computer graphics confab in San Diego.
This is the place where graphics gurus from places like Pixar and Electronic Arts share secrets about how they make Shrek’s eyebrows move in the wind or make the blood splatter in “Medal of Honor.”
But it’s also a place where artists who use pixels instead of paintbrushes show off their latest — and truly, their creations are art. One of the exhibits that caught my attention: 
A 3-D “picture” (complete with frame) in which the ghost-like characters constantly move and change around your own image as you watch. Sort of makes today’s digital photo frames seem obsolete.
Then there was the “emerging technology” section of the conference, which included this “Diorama table” that reacts to stuff you put on it (not unlike Microsoft’s highly touted Surface computer). Something we’ll see in tomorrow’s monitors and displays, perhaps?
Check out more fascinating artwork from SIGGRAPH hereand more emerging technologies here.
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