From: "Samuel Murphy" Subject: Feb Meeting announcement Date: Friday, January 28, 2005 9:51 AM SIGGRAPH/BOSTON at BPL Electronic Theater When: Thursday, Febuary 10, 2004 6:30 - 9:00 pm (Networking 6:30 to 7. Presentation starts at 7) Where: Rabb Auditorium, Boston Public Library 700 Boylston St., Boston MA 02116 Each year, the annual SIGGRAPH conference includes one internationally recognized showcase of the best computer graphics achievements from around the world. The Electronic Theater contains a selection of 16 juried works from a voluminous 635 submissions. The pieces were selected based on extremely high standards of creative and technical excellence. The Electronic Theater is the world's most prestigious film and video extravaganza, showcasing dazzling and innovative imagery in invited and submitted works selected by a distinguished jury of computer graphics experts and specialists. The works selected for this year's Computer Animation Festival take us on a remarkable journey that combines the talent and brilliance of the current and future trends in art and science with the very best imagery depicting comedy, drama, romance, action, adventure, fantasy, science fiction, and science fact. Always a highlight, the Electronic Theater melds art with the latest trends in hardcore computing. It's the place to spot future trends in films and commercials. Selections include: An amazing behind the scenes at Shrek 2, from the Matrix: Making of The Superpunch. from Weta how they created the world of "The Return of the King" and backstage at The Polar Express. From the utter cutting edge of the research labs the absolutely incredible "Output-Sensitive Collision Processing for Reduced-Coordinate Deformable Models" and the sublime "Gratuitous Goop" The full listing is here: http://www.siggraph.org/s2004/conference/caf/et.php?=conference Directions: http://www.bpl.org/general/directions.htm *Central Library:* 700 Boylston Street, Copley Square, Boston, MA 02116 Tel: 617-536-5400: *By subway* *Green Line* to Copley Station. *Orange Line* to Back Bay/South End Station. Walk down Dartmouth Street to Copley Square. *By car* *Interstate 93* (from north or south) Take Storrow Drive exit. Take Copley Square exit off of Storrow Drive. The exit deadends at a signal light. The cross street is Beacon. Take a right on Beacon Street. While on Beacon Street, you will cross Berkeley, Clarendon, and Dartmouth Streets. The next street is Exeter. Take a left onto Exeter (it is a one-way street). While on Exeter, you will cross Marlborough Street, Commonwealth Avenue, and Newbury Street. The next cross street is Boylston. The Library is on the corner of Exeter and Boylston Streets. *Mass Pike* (Interstate 90) Come all the way into the city on the Mass Pike. Take the Copley Square exit (the sign will read: Prudential Center, Copley Square). The exit road will split, follow the Copley Square (right) lane. You will exit the tunnel onto Stuart Street. You will be on the right hand side of the street. Move to the lane furthest left. Take the left at the next light, Dartmouth Street (approximately 500 feet from the tunnel exit). The Library is on the left of Dartmouth Street, after the next light (approximately 500 feet).