Birds of a Feather

Shared interests bring SIGGRAPH attendees together for graphics-related, attendee-organized, informational Birds of a Feather sessions.

Program Content

Birds of a Feather sessions examine the hot topics of today and tomorrow.

Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions are attendee-organized explorations or collaborations on topics impacting the industry. This is a space where attendees can take full advantage of the SIGGRAPH conference environment. If you have something on your mind, there might just be a BOF session dedicated to it.

Birds of a Feather Sessions are accepting submissions through 26 July, 2019. Visit the BOF Submissions page for more information.

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Sunday, 28 July 2019 expand all · collapse all

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10am - 11am

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International Collegiate Virtual Reality Contest (IVRC)

Akihiko SHIRAI

1pm - 2pm

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Sharing Ideas in Teaching 3D Animation

Richard Lapidus

2pm - 3pm

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Complete Your SIGGRAPH Lapel Pin Collection

Leona Caffey

5pm - 6pm

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Demoscene Underground Real-time Art Worldwide

Tomasz Bednarz

8pm - 11pm

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Taipei ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter Reunion (a.k.a. Taiwan Night)

Bing-Yu Chen

Ju-Chun Ko

8:30pm - 10:30pm

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Beijing Film Academy Reception / Future Visual Entertainment

Baoquan Chen

Charles Wang

Liuchao Yan

Monday, 29 July 2019 expand all · collapse all

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9am - 10am

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Assisting the world's aging and disabled population through computational methods

Bektur Ryskeldiev

Yoichi Ochiai

Keisuke Shimakage

10am - 12pm

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Best Practices for Using Game Engines in Traditional Linear Content Production (TV, film, etc.) Pipelines

David Lassonde

Martin Barrette

10am - 12pm

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How to Make a Planet: Visualizing Space at NASA/JPL

Rebecca Perry

Peter Lish

10:30am - 12pm

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State of Rigging in the Industry

Valerie Bernard

10:45am - 12:15pm

ACM SIGGRAPH Town Halls, Birds of a Feather, Town Hall

ACM SIGGRAPH Town Halls, Birds of a Feather, Town Hall ACM SIGGRAPH Technical Papers Town Hall: The Future: Shaping our Field for 2030

11am - 12pm

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Renderfarming

Mark Hills

12pm - 1:30pm

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ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization (Carto) Birds of a Feather

Theresa-Marie Rhyne

12:15pm - 1pm

ACM SIGGRAPH Town Halls

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Town Hall

ACM SIGGRAPH Town Halls

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ACM SIGGRAPH Town Hall: US Federal Funding

Adam Bargteil

12:30pm - 1:30pm

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DAC: ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Online Exhibitions: Overview and Opportunities

Victoria Szabo

12:30pm - 2pm

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Living in a Virtual World

Jeremy Smith

Joel Sloss

Doug Sherman

Joe Sanginario

Ian Main

Omer Farooq

1pm - 2pm

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3D Graphics Enhancements for the RISC-V Processor Architecture

Atif Zafar

Grant Jennings

Ted Marena

1pm - 2pm

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Meshroom: An Open Source 3D Reconstruction Software

Fabien CASTAN

Benoit MAUJEAN

2pm - 6pm

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Web3D Korea Chapter Standardization Meeting

Anita Havele

3pm - 4:30pm

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Shenzhen & Los Angeles Chapters Meetup

Ed Lantz

3:30pm - 4:30pm

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Blender Foundation - community meeting

Ton Roosendaal

4pm - 5pm

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LGBTQI in Graphics Meetup (formerly SIG-GIG)

Jeffrey Weekley

4:30pm - 6pm

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Virtual Beings World

Akihiko SHIRAI

Scott Broock

June Kim

5pm - 7pm

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Global VFX Pipelines

Alex Schworer

Ray Forziati

Fran Zandonella Benjamin

Andry Jong

5pm - 6:30pm

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Kawaguchi's Sake Party and CG Show

Yoichiro Kawaguchi

5pm - 6pm

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Using Blender and Open Source in Studio Pipelines

Ton Roosendaal

Jeff Bell

5:30pm - 8:30pm

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UW CSE Reunion Gathering

David Kessler

Tuesday, 30 July 2019 expand all · collapse all

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8am - 9am

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Academy Software Foundation

David Morin

Rob Bredow

Daniel Heckenberg

9am - 10am

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OpenVDB

Ken Museth

9:30am - 10:30am

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Across the Metaverse

Tina Lipscomb

9:30am - 10:30am

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Best Practices for Using and Contributing to the Vulkan Validation Layers

Karen Ghavam

10am - 11am

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OpenCue

Todd Prives

10:30am - 12pm

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Massive Collaborative Animation Projects

William J. Joel

10:30am - 12pm

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Women in Technology: Knocking Down Barriers

Megha Davalath

10:45am - 12:15pm

ACM SIGGRAPH Town Halls

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Town Hall

ACM SIGGRAPH Town Halls

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ACM SIGGRAPH Town Hall: What Can ACM SIGGRAPH Do For You?

Jessica Hodgins

11am - 12pm

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Bringing Animation into STEM Schools

Evonne Zhu

11am - 12pm

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OpenEXR

Cary Phillips

11am - 12pm

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Ray Tracing Roundtable

Eric Haines

12pm - 1pm

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3rd Annual Bridging the Gap: Disciplined Render Farm Practices from On-prem to Cloud

Joe &. Johanna D'Amato

12pm - 1pm

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Rez in Production, and Development Goals

Allan Johns

Stephen Mackenzie

12pm - 1pm

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Technology and Ideas That Break Through Barriers!

Alex Porter

Timothy Porter

Asante Bradford

Sara Fenton

David Rixter

ARVR Consultants

1pm - 2pm

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A Vulkan SDK Update and Opportunity for Community Feedback

Karen Ghavam

1pm - 2pm

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AI in the Arts and Design: Evolution of 'Artistic Intelligence' or Rupture?

Ruth West

Victoria Szabo

Danielle Siembieda

Erkki Huhtamo

Memo Atken

Max Sims

Angus Forbes

1pm - 2pm

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Cloud Rendering

Bjorn Leffler

1pm - 2pm

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OpenTimelineIO: Official Open-source Meet Up

Stephan Steinbach

Joshua Minor

David Sokolosky

1:30pm - 3pm

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Innovative Education

Julie Lottering

2pm - 3pm

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ACES

Annie Chang

2pm - 3:30pm

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Going Cloud Native

Doug Sherman

2pm - 2:30pm

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Meet The Creators Society

Eric M. Miller

2pm - 4pm

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State of Animation Tools in the Industry

Paul DiLorenzo

2pm - 4pm

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USD, Hydra and OpenSubdiv: Official Open-source Meet Up

Jessica Tran

2:30pm - 3:30pm

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Implementing Empathy in Project Management: A Supplementary Discussion

Claudia E. Davis

3pm - 4pm

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OpenColorIO

Michael Dolan

Doug Walker

Mark Boorer

3pm - 4:30pm

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Web Publishing with 3D in HTML5

Anita Havele

3:45pm - 5:15pm

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Educators Forum

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Educators Forum

VR and Education

Barbara Mones

4pm - 5:30pm

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Digital Building Bricks

Julian Gomez

4pm - 5pm

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Open Shading Language (OSL)

Larry Gritz

5pm - 6pm

ACM SIGGRAPH Town Halls

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Town Hall

ACM SIGGRAPH Town Halls

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ACM SIGGRAPH Town Hall: Meet the Candidates

Rebecca Strzelec

5pm - 6pm

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MaterialX: An Open Standard for Network-Based CG Object Looks

Douglas Smythe

Jonathan Stone

5:30pm - 7pm

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Dynamic Simulation in Production

Mark A. McLaughlin

Wednesday, 31 July 2019 expand all · collapse all

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9am - 10am

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Khronos Fast Forward

Blaine Kohl

10am - 11am

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glTF: Efficient 3D Models

Blaine Kohl

10am - 11am

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OpenScenegraph

John Richardson

10am - 11am

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Staging Public AR, MR and VR in Public Spaces

Patrick Pennefather

10am - 12pm

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State of Hair in the Industry

Megha Davalath

10:45am - 12:15pm

ACM SIGGRAPH Town Halls

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Town Hall

ACM SIGGRAPH Town Halls

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Town Hall

ACM SIGGRAPH Town Hall: ACM SIGGRAPH Frontiers

Adam Bargteil

11am - 12pm

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WebGL: Latest Techniques

Blaine Kohl

12pm - 1pm

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Untold HERstories: An Homage to SIGGRAPH: Question and Answer Session

Donna Cox

Kalina Borkiewicz

AJ Christensen

12pm - 1pm

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Volumetric Studios

Sven Bliedung

Sven Slazenger

12:30pm - 2pm

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Berthouzoz Women in Research Lunch

Anh Truong

Adriana Schulz

12:30pm - 2pm

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Material Definition Language (MDL): Application Independent PBR Materials

Lutz Kettner

12:30pm - 2pm

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VFX Reference Platform – A Common Target for Building VFX Software

Nick Cannon

Francois Chardavoine

1pm - 2:30pm

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Computer Graphics for Simulation

John Richardson

1pm - 2pm

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ISEA International – Open Forum

Sue Gollifer

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1pm - 2pm

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Standardizing All the Realities: A Look at OpenXR

Blaine Kohl

2pm - 3pm

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DCAJ Presentation: Advanced Content-related Technology in Japan

Noriko Namikoshi

2pm - 3pm

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Python in Production

Jim Price

2pm - 4pm

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Volumetric Video Creators

Hannah Bianchini

2pm - 2:30pm

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Vulkan Update

Blaine Kohl

2:30pm - 4pm

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Visualizing the Future Demand for Real-time 3D Skills

Linda Sellheim

Rebecca Perry

2:30pm - 2:50pm

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Vulkan Timeline Semaphores

Blaine Kohl

2:50pm - 3:15pm

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OctaneRender on Vulkan

Blaine Kohl

3:15pm - 3:40pm

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DXC Update: HLSL to SPIR-V for Vulkan

Blaine Kohl

4pm - 6pm

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ASIFA Hollywood's Animation Educators Forum Asks: How Does the Approach to Animation Education Differ Around the World?

Tom Sito

Chris Oakley

4:05pm - 4:30pm

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Ecosystem Advancements to Aid Vulkan Developers

Blaine Kohl

4:30pm - 5pm

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OpenGL/OpenGL ES Update + Zink - OpenGL on Vulkan

Blaine Kohl

5pm - 5:20pm

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ANGLE on Vulkan: Portable OpenGL and SwiftShader Vulkan

Blaine Kohl

6pm - 7pm

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SIGGRAPH Musicians

Andrew Duchowski

Erik Brunvand

Thursday, 1 August 2019 expand all · collapse all

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9am - 10am

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Meet the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community

Victoria Szabo

10am - 11:30am

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Khronos 3D Commerce

Blaine Kohl

10am - 11:30am

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Undergraduate Research Alliance

William Joel

12pm - 1:30pm

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Career Panel: The Future Demand for Real-Time 3D Skills

Linda Sellheim

2pm - 3:30pm

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Depth Camera Evolution, Usage and Development

Mike Amron

3pm - 4:30pm

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Let's Talk VR - 4

Sunil Rampersad

Together We Thrive

Achievements

Together We Thrive

Achievements

2013: Technical Papers

AIREAL: Interactive Tactile Experiences in Free Air

A tactile feedback device that delivered effective and expressive tactile sensations in free air, without requiring the user to wear a physical device. Combined with interactive graphics and applications, AIREAL enabled users to feel virtual objects, experience free-air textures and receive haptic feedback with free-space gestures.

Together We Thrive

Achievements

2014: Emerging Technologies

Birdly

Birdly was an installation that explored the experience of a bird in flight. Unlike a common flight simulator, users do not control a machine. Instead, they embody a bird, the Red Kite. To evoke this embodiment, the system relied on sensory-motor coupling. Participants controlled the simulator with hands and arms, and a head-mounted display provided a first-person perspective of a bird.

Together We Thrive

Achievements

2017: Emerging Technologies

MetaLimbs

A novel approach to body-schema alternation and artificial-limb interaction, MetaLimbs adds two robotic arms to the user's body and maps the global motion of legs and feet relative to the torso.