Another full day at SIGGRAPH! Cara and I attended a 2 hour class this morning on 3D and 2D animation. The instructor, Andrew Glasner, who has chaired the research presentations comittee at SIGGRAPH in the past, took the group through the process of creating a 3D animation film.
Afterwards we met up with my cousin Chris, who is attending the conference as an exhibitor and spent a couple of hours exploring the exhibition floor. I've posted pics on Facebook.
In the afternoon we took in an amazing panel discussion titled, "As the World Turns: Debating and Examing Online Digital Earth Technologies. The presenters included Theresa-Marie Rhyne of North Carolina State University who has been involved in a Google Earth virtual campus project at NCU; Dean Johnson from Western Michigan University who spoke about X3D ( geospacial mapping application) and the development of web standards surrounding geospacial applications; Adam Hill who explained NASA's World Wind Java an opensource application and opensource dataset component, and Michael Jones representing Google Earth who's portion of the discussion was titled, "The Power of the Geo-web".
After the Digital Earth Technologies panel presentation we went back to the hotel and Baasje's cousin Melissa picked us up and took us to "The Groves" (where segements of "The Hills" are often shot) for dinner and some shopping. We finally ate at Chipotle's, which Cara has been itching to do since we got here. Fun times!
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