Yes Judd Yalkut and Nam June Paik like on on the desktop with this cool video synthesizer that runs on a mac or pc. www.cycling74.com. One basically program a video moog synthesizer of real time video effects.
Cinetropes or models on a turntable are shot by shuttered by XL2s creating a real time organic video display.
Has to be seen to be believed, very cool - Bellows -www.ericdyer.com
Latte Art, logos, detailed art can now be printed on to Latte foam - digital signage made personal - onlatte.com
Stereoscopy is all the rage with new tools and pipelines to create 3D glasses movies that will bring people back to the theater. Unfortunately 3D LCD displays will be coming to the home as well probably not as fast.
My concern is that it will shut out the independent film maker.
www.digitalmaxinc.com Adventres in the NPM is a 3D short you might like.
www.futureofsound.org sponsored by illustrious - cool directions in aural events
In fashion from Japan, the wearable forest - a dress with lights and sound ( a simple white dress) that mimics the feeling of being in nature ... as well as the dreaming pillow
Slikc.com is creating virtual databases for the Web 3.0 , makign it easier to get the information where you need it and when you need it easily.
The emerging technology site showed 2 dimensional communication with devices that were powered and communicated without any wires (microwave). www.alab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~siggraph/
www.gigapan.org gigapixel cameras - panoramas from around the globe - high res panoramas.
wUbi-pen is a mobile and wireless haptic ( touch) stylus - the pen vibrates and provides feedback on a touch screen. the next step in interactive stylus. www.kyungku.net
And visual sculpture art that had the feeling of Kawaguchi 3D models from the 90s. Yoichiro Kawaguchi had soem very cool sculptures ... www.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yoichiro/
This was the year of swag ( t-shirts and zip drives are back) at Siggraph. Usually a sign the economy might be on an up swing or the fact that t-shirts are dirt cheap.
Perhaps one of the coolest little apps was the 3d Paint tool by smith-micro groboto
http://www.groboto.com/ - using the open gl card it uses bots and autobots to create complex almost fractal like organic shapes that can be exported as an obj format. Very cool app for creating animted morphing screens.
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