Fear and Loafers in San Diego by westman last modified 29 December 2007 03:20 PM Mark Busse I was somewhere over Northern California headed south when the fear started to take hold. I remember wondering about what lay ahead thinking something to the effect of 'what am I doing here?'. As a graphic designer only peripherally interested in animation, 3D rendering, motion capture, or gaming, I was afraid that I might not fit into this crowd and worried about what form my article might take. I knew that I was more interested in the inspiration and imagination promised by this year's event organizers than the ubiquitous technology presentations. However, what I really wanted to know was what motivated thousands of people to travel thousands of miles to attend a weeklong conference about computer graphics. These questions occupied my thoughts when suddenly we arrived. In a rush of security checks, baggage claims and shuttle buses, I was there, in the heart of the beast, the epicenter of the computer graphics universe: SIGGRAPH 2007. This was my first trip to SIGGRAPH and I wasn't fully prepared for the massive scale, tens of thousands of attendees or overwhelming number of
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Fear and loafers in San Diego
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, Volume 41 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Nov 1, 2007
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