Submission are now open for the Faculty-Submitted Student Work Exhibit at SIGGRAPH 2015 in Los Angeles. Sponsored by the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee, the exhibit will feature work from secondary (high school) students and university students. Submissions from all content areas are welcome, including art, animation, graphic design, game design, architecture, visualization and real-time rendering. […]
Virtual Reality That Reacts to Your Thoughts
By Kristy Barkan As it turns out, The Force isn't just a figment of George Lucas' imagination. Students in the UC Berkeley chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH have come up with a fascinating virtual reality system that reads users' brain waves and changes the world around them in response. The project, called Mindscape VR, utilizes the […]
Yes, This Gorgeous CG Short Was Made by Students
Interview by Cody Welsh These days, student films are not in short supply. An increasingly large number of schools offer programs in computer animation, and sites like Vimeo and YouTube are teeming with student films — some of which rival those of major production studios in terms of quality (though typically not in length). A […]