Preparing students to take the next step

Tangible cultural heritage has provided visually appealing material for those researching in computer graphics, computational geometry, and interactive techniques. However, experiments were initially of more benefit to computer scientists as tests for their novel techniques than of any practical benefit to cultural-heritage professionals. Recently, however, tools have matured considerably, and technology is now enabling novel applications for documenting and preserving tangible cultural heritage and is continuing to inspire computer graphics researchers. Nevertheless, there's still a long way to go.

The other-race effect refers to the observation that we perform better in tasks involving faces of our own race compared to faces of a race we are not familiar with. This is especially interesting as from a biological perspective, the category “race” does in fact not exist (Cosmides L, Tooby J, Krurzban R, Trends Cogn Sci 7(4):173–179, 2003); visually, however, we do group the people around us into such categories. Usually, the other-race effect is investigated in memory tasks where observers have to learn and subsequently recognize faces of individuals of different races (Meissner CA, Brigham JC, Psychol Public Policy Law 7(1):3–35, 2001) but it has also been demonstrated in perceptual tasks where observers compare one face to another on a screen (Walker PM, Tanaka J, Perception 32(9):1117–1125, 2003). In all tasks (and primarily for technical reasons) the test faces differ in race and identity. To broaden our general understanding of the effect that the race of a face has on the observer, in the present study, we investigated whether an other-race effect is also observed when participants are confronted with faces that differ only in ethnicity but not in identity. To that end, using Asian and Caucasian faces and a morph algorithm (Blanz V, Vetter T, A morphable model for the synthesis of 3D faces. In: Proceedings of the 26th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques – SIGGRAPH’99, pp 187–194, 1999), we manipulated each original Asian or Caucasian face to generate face “race morphs” that shared the same identity but whose race appearance was manipulated stepwise toward the other ethnicity. We presented each Asian or Caucasian face pair (original face and a race morph) to Asian (South Korea) and Caucasian (Germany) participants who had to judge which face in each pair looked “more Asian” or “more Caucasian”. In both groups, participants did not perform better for same-race pairs than for other-race pairs. These results point to the importance of identity information for the occurrence of an other-race effect.

Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques in Australia and Southeast Asia

Walking from thought

The effects of filler loading on the tensile and elongation at break of SMR 10 using a sulphur vulcanization system was studied. Carbon black (N220) was used as the fillers and the loading range was from 10 to 40 phr. Two Roll Mill (Model LS-22005) and 25 Ton Hot Cold Molding Press (Model LS22025) used for mixing and molding press. Both equipments were supplied by Lotus Scientific. Tensile and elongation at break were determined using a Universal Testing Machine (Model 133004600771) operating at 20 mm/min. Results show that, elongation at break decreases, but tensile strength, increase with filler loading. This observation is attributed to the rubber–filler interphaseinteraction of carbon black and rubber.

research-article Share on Feminist Transgressions? Object and Process in Transgenic/Genetic Works by Women Author: Mary Flanagan University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon University of Oregon, Eugene, OregonView Profile Authors Info & Claims SIGGRAPH '02: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. Electronic Art and Animation Catalog.July 2002Pages 129–133https://doi.org/10.1145/2931127.2931197Published:21 July 2002Publication History 1citation26DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations1Total Downloads26Last 12 Months2Last 6 weeks0 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Publisher SiteGet Access

Computer graphics and interactive techniques: 15th–17th July 1974. Boulder, Colorado, USA. Sponsored by the University of Colorado Computing Centre and ACM/SIGGRAPH

ACM The 6th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia(ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2013)に参加して(国際会議の報告)

Proceedings of the 18th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

Recent advances in computer graphics and interactive techniques have increased the visual quality and flexibility of Augmented Reality (AR) applications. This, in turn has increased the viability of applying AR to educational exhibits for use in Science Centres, Museums, Libraries and other education centres. This article outlines a selection of five projects developed at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory in New Zealand (HIT Lab NZ) that have explored different techniques for applying AR to educational exhibits.These exhibits have received very positive feedback and appear to have educational benefits involving spatial, temporal and contextual conceptualisation and provide kinaesthetic, explorative and knowledge-challenging stimulus. The controls available to a user of turning a page, moving an AR marker, moving their head and moving a slider provide sufficient freedom to create many interaction scenarios that can serve educative outcomes. While the use of virtual media provides many advantages, creating new content is still quite difficult, requiring specialist software and skills. Useability observations are shared.

Interdisciplinary research achievements in the world's most prestigious presentation of current work in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Academic and industry investigators explain their ground-breaking, provocative, and important new work. After their talks, most authors are available for informal discussion of their research and its implications.

An object space method is given for interpolating between sampled and locally averaged signals, resulting in an antialiasing filter which provides a continuous transition from a sampled signal to its selectively dampened local averages. This method is ...

3D Meister Planner is the simplest real time floor planner worldwide. It is a Progressive Web App in which users are able to define and customize their room in 2D and 3D. Users can position and select which elements are present and choose from the ...

This hands on lab will use Python scripting in Maya to automate the creation and placement of objects in a scene.

Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Posters