{"id":37,"date":"2007-08-31T15:52:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T22:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renderwonk.com\/blog\/index.php\/archive\/siggraph-2007-fast-forward-session-now-on-encore\/"},"modified":"2015-08-22T14:05:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T21:05:08","slug":"siggraph-2007-fast-forward-session-now-on-encore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renderwonk.com\/blog\/index.php\/archive\/siggraph-2007-fast-forward-session-now-on-encore\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGGRAPH 2007 Fast-Forward session now on Encore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They have the video for this for $10 or included if you got the full conference.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone who isn&#8217;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&#8217;s SIGGRAPH papers so you can figure out which ones are worthy of further attention.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s rap presentation of his Improved Noise paper). This has since become part of the tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other sessions, the Encore video doesn&#8217;t give the <strong>full<\/strong> impact of being there since you don&#8217;t see the presenters dressed in drag \/ multicolored clown afro wigs \/ Borat costumes \/ etc. It is still well worth seeing however.<\/p>\n<p>The same seven papers that were cut from the Encore papers sessions were cut from this as well (see <a href=\"http:\/\/renderwonk.com\/blog\/index.php\/archive\/siggraph-encore\/\">my earlier post<\/a> for details).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have the video for this for $10 or included if you got the full conference. For anyone who isn&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-siggraph2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renderwonk.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renderwonk.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renderwonk.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renderwonk.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renderwonk.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/renderwonk.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/renderwonk.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renderwonk.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renderwonk.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renderwonk.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}