SIGGRAPH 2007 : Day 1, Sunday August 5th
Wow, what a difference SIGGRAPH is from Comic-Con. We’ve been out here in San Diego since July 25th. We attended a packed Comic-Con and I’m happy to say the halls of the San Diego convention center were serene in comparison with cattle drive that filled the hallways one short week ago.
Another welcome relief is the new merchandise bags this year. For those of you who have never attended SIGGRAPH before, in the past you would get a merchandise voucher with your conference badge which allowed you to pick up a plastic bag filled with a conference DVD and printed conference proceedings/papers to take home for later reference. In the past the combined contents of this bag weighed in at around 5-10 pounds. Not the sort of thing you want to lug around with you all day. While I enjoyed perusing the printed papers book (about the weight of a telephone book) in the past I was thankful to find that the bag no longer included this heavy addition and instead contained only the DVD version. Another cool new concept is the ability to get your favorite courses/sessions burned to DVD overnight. Hats off to the SIGGRAPH organizers for these changes and additions.