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From: smithson@calma.uucp (Brian Smithson)
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Subject: Re: Dvorak and SIGGRAPH (not that long)
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 14:21:02 EDT
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My observation of SIGGRAPH this year is that it is suffering from
growth pains.  The computer graphics industry has grown explosively
in the last few years, from a highly technical "you have to be a
computer scientist to understand it" industry to one in which its
products can be fully used by artists, designers, business people,
or others who may have little or no knowledge of computers.  The
industry is selling into a different market than five years ago,
and this being a "trade show", one would expect a different sort
of attendance.  I only attended the exhibits this year, and gave
up any hope of getting into the films, so I can't comment on those.

As far as arrogance, I did run into perhaps the most arrogant and
obnoxious exhibitor I've ever come across, at the Lucasfilm booth.
Only identified by a Lucasfilm badge (no name), he ranted on about
the CAD/CAM/CAE business as though he knew something, although 
it was quite obvious that he did not.  Not that it matters much,
though; the Pixar is an impressive machine, but it is pretty
worthless fluff to the CAD biz... (flame off -- sorry about that).

What I'd really like to suggest, and what would be more appropriate
for this newsgroup than my (and others') flames, is that we concentrate
on what we'd like to see at SIGGRAPH '86.  Most of the comments I've
read about SIGGRAPH '85 have been about what the writers didn't like,
but I really don't have a clue what they *would* have liked.  Perhaps
then, a digest of constructive comments could be forwarded to ACM?
-- 

		-Brian Smithson
		 Calma Company 
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