Assembly Summer 2016 computer festival was held last weekend. It was about computer gaming and Demoscene. The demoscene is an international computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos: small, self-contained computer programs that produce audio-visual presentations. I was not at the place this year, but I looked at some of the computer demo productions on-line and found them interesting (for example Teletext 40 years by Paraguay and ASTRA by @p01 that I have mentioned on blog).
The demoscene results from Assembly Summer 2016 can be found at: http://www.assembly.org/summer16/news/demoscene-results/ and Assembly 2016 :: pouët.net. Assembly Summer 2016 has an archive of productions at http://archive.assembly.org/2016.
Here is as an example the winning demoGestalt by Quite vs T-Rex
The productions can be found as video on YouTube. Finding everything there can be difficult, so Kenneth Falck has made nice YouTube playlists to view them:
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Some other somewhat related event with cool demo video is this:
SIGGRAPH 2016: Still Addicted to Computer Graphics
http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1330267&
There is hardly a commercial animated or special effects film or lead-in to the 10-o’clock TV news that isn’t supported by computer graphics. The SIGGRAPH gathering reminds animators of how many machine cycles it takes your graphics processing unit (GPU) to light up a video screen.
Follow the light
Despite the intensified fascination with immersive realities (AR and VR), the technology for animating a computer graphics screen, remains very much familiar. “Pay attention to where the light comes from in each frame of the film,”
Looking at presentations, pictures and the on-line renderings made available from SIGGRAPH on line, it turns out the basic questions haven’t changed.
SIGGRAPH University – Introduction to “Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-A0mwsJRmk
Body Talk: Crowdshaping Realistic 3D Avatars with Words (SIGGRAPH 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6F22RFO9HU