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Jeff next to more tasty Macness
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Mmm... G5. This is as close as I'll get to one for a long while.
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So many Macs... say what you will about market share, graphics folk are stuck like glue to Apple.
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Jet Ski surfboard? This 300cc gasoline motor has been squashed into a board for riding. Why at SIGGRAPH? Your guess is as good as mine.
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The motion capture slave. There were several companies showing off their systems for capturing computer animation data from live-action. Each one of these booths had very tired looking dancers demonstrating the systems' efficacy.
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But they were upstaged by ATI, who has just integrated their fancy new Radeons into the pro-graphics card line "FireGL"
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Nvidia was hawking there quadro cards.
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Behold! Companies, schwag seekers, job hunters, head hunters, and bored grad students gather at the exhibition, an orgy of big, colorful animated things; mostly cars and planes and breasts (know your audience).
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A herd of graphics geeks. This picture was taken on Monday, before the exhibition opened, when there were only academic papers and courses going on. So the more "colorful" part of the crowd was not out in force yet.