Design. Create. Inspire with ATI Technologies

Join ATI at SIGGRAPH™ 2005!
Join ATI and more than 25,000 attendees gathering in August at the SIGGRAPH 2005 convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. SIGGRAPH 2005 is the 32nd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, where ATI and exhibitors representing more than 230 international companies explain and demonstrate the latest digital breakthroughs in computer graphics and interactive content creation. The SIGGRAPH 2005 exhibition runs from August 2nd to August 4th, with conferences in session from July 31st through August 4th.

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“Design. Create. Inspire.”— with ATI
The best part? Head directly for Booth# 1101 at SIGGRAPH’s South Hall, and discover why ATI’s theme for SIGGRAPH 2005 is: “Design. Create. Inspire.” Everyone from modelers and animators creating stunning visual effects to industrial engineers building complex mechanical subassemblies all rely on ATI’s FireGL™ 3D graphics accelerators to turn their inspiration into reality. ATI will feature a stage presentation on the future of advanced computer graphics and imaging technologies. Graphics experts from ATI’s 3D Application Research Group will be on hand at ATI’s booth to demonstrate and explain ATI’s latest graphics products. ATI’s leading software and hardware partners will also be at the booth, including Alias®, SOFTIMAGE®, Autodesk, Silicon Graphics®, Dassault Systemes, Bunkspeed, Works Zebra, Side Effects Software, and Seamless Display.

Visualize your Career at ATI
Aspiring graphics technology innovators will also get a chance to discuss career opportunities with ATI’s Staffing team—so bring your resume! A dedicated “Visualize your Career at ATI” area will be available at the ATI Exhibition booth on August 2nd and 3rd from 10am - 6pm, and August 4th from 10am - 5pm. ATI’s recruiters will also be at ATI’s SIGGRAPH Job Fair booth # 29 on August 2nd and 3rd from 10am - 4 pm.

Learn from ATI’s graphics pros
Courses offered at SIGGRAPH 2005 include tutorials, half-day, and full-day sessions taught by top academic and industry specialists on the latest digital theories and expert practices in today’s world of computer graphics. Engineers from ATI Research are involved in the following courses, sketches, and presentations. Get the inspiration you need to sharpen your design and creation skills by learning from the experts!

SIGGRAPH™ 2005 Events:

• GPU Shading and Rendering:
  Full-Day, Tuesday, 2 August, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
  Petree Hall D
  Level: Intermediate
  
  Real-time programmable shading can now be experienced everywhere from game consoles to the highest-end PCs. This updated course brings together leading researchers from industry and academia to present the foundations of hardware shading, the latest developments, and how shading hardware is increasingly used for non-real-time rendering.
  

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• Global Illumination and Occlusion:
  Tuesday, 2 August
  8:30 - 10:15 am
  Petree Hall C
  
  Practical Dynamic Parallax Occlusion Mapping
  An improved parallax occlusion mapping algorithm for dynamic real-time lighting of surfaces including soft shadows, a directable LOD system, and robust critical height field-ray intersection computation.

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• GPU Rendering Tricks:
  Thursday, 4 August
  10:30 am - 12:15 pm
  Room 515A
  
  Angular Extent Filtering with Edge Fixup for Seamless Cubemap Filtering
  Two methods for cubemap filtering, angular extent filtering, and edge fixup that alleviate the edge-seam artifacts that commonly occur when using cubemaps on graphics hardware.
  
  Interactive Summed-Area Table Generation for Glossy Environmental Reflections
  A technique for generating summed-area tables at interactive rates and how to use the resulting summed-area tables to render glossy environmental reflections.
  

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• Architecting the Future:
  SGI, Intel, and ATI look beyond today's top graphics products
  Tuesday, August 2, 1:00-3:00pm, Hall J, Room 1
  Moderated by David J. Kasik, Technical Fellow, Enterprise Visualization Architect, The Boeing Company.

  ATI, SGI, and Intel will provide insight in to their near-term and long-term product plans, presenting alternatives for advancing visualization.
  Participating panelists include: Jim Hurley, Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation; Mike Doggett, Architect, ATI Research; and Kevin McLaughlin, Vice President Engineering, Visual Systems Group, SGI.
  

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For more information, visit the official SIGGRAPH website: www.siggraph.org