ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee - Instructional Materials

Educators' Slide Sets

wobbe — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:58:00 +0000

A collection of educational slide sets.

These slides are designed to help teach certain concepts. The Education slide sets of 1991,1993, 1995, and 1997 focused on Computer Science and the Education slide set of 1992 focused on 2D aspects of Art and Design.

1997 Educators' Slide Set

Surface mapping techniques

including texture and bump mapping and 2D and 3D (procedural) mapping

You can also download a Zip file of this slide set, containing all slides and the documentation (1,753 KB)

1995 Educators' Slide Set

1993 Educators' Slide Set

Line and Circle Drawing

Anti-aliasing

Radiosity

1992 Educators' Slide Set

The Process of Creating 2D Images

SIGGRAPH 92 Educator's Slide Set on 2D Art

1991 Educators' Slide Set

Ray Tracing

Copyright 1984
University of Waterloo
Michael Sweeney

3D Projection

Copyright 1991
University of Regina
Norma Fuller

The Shutterbug Rendering Progression

Copyright 1991
P-I-X-A-R

Computer Graphics Java Applets

wobbe — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:34:00 +0000

by Patrick Min, Princeton University

The applets and source code can be found at www.cs.princeton.edu/~min/cs426/applets.html

HyperGraph - Teaching Computer Graphics

wobbe — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 04:00:00 +0000

A project of the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee, the Hypermedia and Visualization Laboratory, Georgia State University, and the National Science Foundation (IIS-9980130), (USE-8954402), (DUE-9255489), (DUE-9752398), (DUE9751419).

Project Director: G. Scott Owen

This resources has been archived and can still be accessed here

Note: moved to new location, July 2019.

SIGGRAPH 2001 Emerging Technology Exhibit Movies

wobbe — Thu, 16 Aug 2001 04:00:00 +0000

These movies were made by SIGGRAPH TV at SIGGRAPH 2001.

Note: All files are in the Mpeg format.

Alpha-Wolf

(7.5 mbytes)
Chair's Prerogative Exhibit

This installation, featuring compelling characters with a novel multi-person interface in an expressive graphical setting, allows participants to interact socially with a pack of autonomous wolves. It is an extension of previous work by the MIT Media Lab's Synthetic Characters Group on creation of autonomous virtual creatures.

Technical Innovation

Interactive synthetic social behavior

Bill Tomlinson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA
Badger [at] media.mit.edu
badger.www.media.mit.edu/people/badger/alphaWolf.html

Micro Archiving

(9.6 Mbytes)
Juried Exhibit

Micro Archiving enables digital archives of small objects like insects. This application demonstrates Micro Archiving's easy acquisition of high-definition 3D models and displays an interactive environment in which visitors interact with virtual bugs.

Technical Innovation

High-resolution digitizing of shape and color for tiny objects

Tatsuya Saito
Keio University
5322 Endo Fujisawa
Kanagawa 252-8520 JAPAN
tatsu@wem.sfc.keio.ac.jp

sensingChair

(14.8 Mbytes)
Juried Exhibit

An office chair that senses its occupant through a layer of "artificial skin." The sensingChair opens up new opportunities for human-computer interactions.

Technical Innovations

Chair-based HCI
Real-time classification of seated posture

Hong Tan
Purdue University
1285 Electrical Engineering Building West
Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1285 USA
hongtan [at] purdue.edu
www.ecn.purdue.edu/HIRL/projects_chair.html

Everywhere Displays

(9.5 Mbytes)
Juried Exhibit

An everywhere displays projector uses a rotating mirror to project information onto any surface in an environment. User interaction is detected by a video camera so no physical contact with any computer device is required. In this playful demonstration, an ED projector helps visitors collaboratively render an image composed of M&Ms.

Technical Innovation

Responsive projection of information onto real world surfaces

Claudio Pinhanez
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
P.O. Box 218
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 USA
pinhanez [at] us.ibm.com
www.research.ibm.com/people/p/pinhanez/ cp_research_ed.htm

EnhancedDesk

(10.3 Mbytes)
Juried Exhibit

This augmented desk interface system provides novel man-machine interfaces based on direct manipulation of both real and projected objects with human hands and fingers.

Technical Innovations

User-specified object recognition
Overlay of interactive functionality
Fast and accurate real-time video tracking of multiple hands and fingers

Yoichi Sato
The University of Tokyo
4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku
Tokyo 153-8505 JAPAN
Ysato [at] iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
www.hci.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/index.html

Enhanced Reality: A New Frontier for Computer Entertainment

(8.4 Mbytes)
Juried Exhibit

A new form of computer entertainment that enables movie-like special effects by mixing live video input and computer graphics in real time (Augmented-reality but with an entertainment focus). Participants interact with a virtual character, play with virtual butterflies, and have a "magic" duel.

Technical Innovations

Intelligent natural interfaces
Video input
Collaborative, real-time situated awareness

Richard Marks
Sony Computer Entertainment America
919 East Hillsdale Boulevard
Foster City, California 94404 USA
richard_marks [at] playstation.sony.com
www.devnet.scea.com/research/index.html

OttoAndIris.com

(10.7 Mbytes)
Chair's Prerogative Exhibit

A playful theme park filled with fun activities in a 3D world. The core elements of the theme park are two autonomous, real-time interactive characters with individual personalities constructed from believable-agent and interactive-drama technology developed by Zoesis Studios, a spin-off of the Oz project at Carnegie Mellon University.

Technical Innovation

Highly interactive, personality-rich autonomous characters
Interactive dramatic guidance
Interactive music
Web-based online delivery

Bryan Loyall
Zoesis Studios
246 Walnut Street, Suite 301
Newton, Massachusetts 02460 USA
bryan [at] zoesis.com
ottoandiris.com/

RobotPHONE: RUI for Interpersonal Communication

(11.4 Mbytes)
Juried Exhibit

A user interface that uses robots as physical avatars for interpersonal communication. It enables users in remote locations to communicate and interact with each other by exchanging the shape and motion of the robot.

Technical Innovation

Cooperative mechanical and interpersonal communication via robotic interfaces

Dairoku Sekiguchi
The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-0033 JAPAN
info [at] robotphone.org
www.robotphone.org/

Riding the Net

(10.5 Mbytes)
Juried Exhibit

In this speech-based image browser, an interactive window displays a collection of constantly updated images derived from the Internet. As users speak into voice-input devices, keywords generate downloads of corresponding images. Users can interact with the images on the window's surface.

Technical Innovations

Voice-driven image retrieval of data mined from the Internet
Touch-screen intervention

Christa Sommerer
ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto
2-2 Hikari-dai Seika-cho, Soraku-gun
Kyoto 619-0288 JAPAN
christa [at] mic.atr.co.jp
www.mic.atr.co.jp/~christa/

Volume Visualization Data Sets

wobbe — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 04:00:00 +0000

The Chapel Hill Volume Rendering Test Data Set, Volume I

These were originally on an ftp site at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

SoftLab Software Systems Laboratory
University of North Carolina
Department of Computer Science
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175

The Chapel Hill Volume Rendering Test Data Set, Volume I is a collection of the following files:

Head data (zip file of 9.2 mbytes)
A 109-slice MRI data set of a human head. Complete slices are stored consecutively as a 256 x 256 array. Pixels consist of 2 consecutive bytes making one binary integer. Data taken on the Siemens Magnetom and provided courtesy of Siemens Medical Systems, Inc., Iselin, NJ.

Head data information article - An ASCII file containing acknowledgements for the head data files.

Knee data (zip file of 12.2 mbytes)
A 127-slice MRI data set of a human knee. Complete slices are stored consecutively as a 256 x 256 array. Pixels consist of 2 consecutive bytes making one binary integer. Data taken on the Siemens Magnetom and provided courtesy of Siemens Medical Systems, Inc., Iselin, NJ.

Knee data information article - An ASCII file containing acknowledgements for the knee data files.

CT Cadaver Head data (zip file of 7.4 mbytes)
A 113-slice MRI data set of a CT study of a cadaver head. Slices are stored consecutively as a 256 x 256 array with dimensions of z-113 y-256 x-256 in z-y-x order. Format is 16-bit integers -- two consecutive bytes make up one binary integer. 14,811,136 bytes total file size. Data taken on the General Electric CT Scanner and provided courtesy of North Carolina Memorial Hospital.

CT Cadaver Head data information article - An ascii file containing acknowledgements for the CT cadaver head data files.

MR Brain data (zip file of 7.9 mbytes)
A 109-slice MRI data set of a head with skull partially removed to reveal brain. 256 x 256 array. with dimensions of Z=109 Y=256 X=256 in z-y-x order. Format is 16-bit integers -- two consecutive bytes make up one binary integer. 14,286,848 bytes total file size. Data taken on the Siemens Magnetom and provided courtesy of Siemens Medical Systems, Inc., Iselin, NJ. Data edited (skull removed) by Dr. Julian Rosenman, North Carolina Memorial Hospital.

MR Brain data information article - An ascii file containing acknowledgements for the MR brain data files.

The data sets were written on a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) VAX computer. Each file contains only pixels, stored in row major order with 2-byte integers per pixel. To use the images on machines that have normal byte order (DECs use reverse byte order), you should swap alternate bytes, for example using the 'dd' command in UNIX. A sample command that does this for the 3dknee data set is:

% dd if=3dknee of=3dknee.new conv=swab

We do not object to your further distributing these files, but we request that full acknowledgement of the source of the data accompany such distribution. If you are going to send a data set to someone, please also send the accompanying information file (*.info) and this file (Announcement).

The Computer Science Department, University of North Carolina only distributes these files by anonymous FTP.

We do not provide any software for displaying these data.

There is no information available about the data provided here other than that present in these files. For example, missing information about the means of data collection cannot be provided.

HyperVis - Teaching Scientific Visualization

wobbe — Sun, 24 Oct 1999 04:00:00 +0000

A project of the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee, the National Science Foundation (DUE-9752398), and the Hypermedia and Visualization Laboratory, Georgia State University.

Project Director: G. Scott Owen

This resources has been archived and can still be accessed here

ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee - Instructional Materials

Educators' Slide Sets

A collection of educational slide sets.

1997 Educators' Slide Set

1995 Educators' Slide Set

1993 Educators' Slide Set

1992 Educators' Slide Set

1991 Educators' Slide Set

Copyright 1984 University of Waterloo Michael Sweeney

Copyright 1991 University of Regina Norma Fuller

Copyright 1991 P-I-X-A-R

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Computer Graphics Java Applets

by Patrick Min, Princeton University

Tags:

HyperGraph - Teaching Computer Graphics

Note: moved to new location, July 2019.

Tags:

SIGGRAPH 2001 Emerging Technology Exhibit Movies

These movies were made by SIGGRAPH TV at SIGGRAPH 2001.

Note: All files are in the Mpeg format.

Enhanced Reality: A New Frontier for Computer Entertainment

Tags:

Volume Visualization Data Sets

The Chapel Hill Volume Rendering Test Data Set, Volume I

Tags:

HyperVis - Teaching Scientific Visualization

Note: moved to new location July 2019

Tags:

Copyright 1984
University of Waterloo
Michael Sweeney

Copyright 1991
University of Regina
Norma Fuller

Copyright 1991
P-I-X-A-R