SIGGRAPH 2007 Fast-Forward session now on Encore
Aug 31st, 2007 by Naty
They have the video for this for $10 or included if you got the full conference.
For anyone who isn’t familiar with the SIGGRAPH Papers Fast-Forward session, this is a fairly recent tradition (since 2002), where all the papers are presented in very short (50 second) presentations. This gives you a chance to get a quick overview of the year’s SIGGRAPH papers so you can figure out which ones are worthy of further attention.
For some reason, many of the presenters in 2002 did (or at least tried to do) humorous presentations rather than playing it straight (most notable was Ken Perlin’s rap presentation of his Improved Noise paper). This has since become part of the tradition.
Unlike other sessions, the Encore video doesn’t give the full impact of being there since you don’t see the presenters dressed in drag / multicolored clown afro wigs / Borat costumes / etc. It is still well worth seeing however.
The same seven papers that were cut from the Encore papers sessions were cut from this as well (see my earlier post for details).