Emergence: Imbalance, Order, Growth is an original art piece by CACR research scientist Santiago Lombeyda that will appear at this year’s SIGGRAPH Art Gallery. The artwork shows continuous spiral lines jumping paint edges, depicted using series of algorithmically pre-rendered 3d spheres. At SIGGRAPH2006, the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, the year’s most advanced achievements in computer graphics and interactive techniques will be exhibited.

For further information, including an abstract and technical information, please read Santiago Lombeyda’s page about the piece.

Horizonte , an original piece by CACR research scientist Santiago Lombeyda , was created from the volume rendering of a time-step of a simulation of a shockwave propagating across a solid wedge (data courtesy of Caltech’s ASCI/ASAP Center ). The data is stored as a 12bit volume in a grid size of 2000×400x400 voxels. The angle of infraction creates internal pressure waves, which concentrate around the objects surface folds. Intuitively this image confronts the user with a receding surface with clear turbulence to it. This surface seems to break or fold with a second surface on a brighter white path, as if it was a horizon line. This in fact is the main shockwave moving across the object. The image thus offers two stark contrasts : o ne is the changing visual depth of the image, while the second one is the conflicting duality between a perception as a peaceful panorama versus the less obvious pictorial of a violent shock. These contrasts have the ability of moving a viewer back and forth from serene to unbalanced or weary.

At SIGGRAPH2004 , t he 31st International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques , the year’s most advanced achievements in computer graphics and interactive techniques will be exhibited . SIGGRAPH2004 brings computer graphics and interactive professionals from around the world together for a 5-day conference and 3-day exhibition in Los Angeles, California.

The Synaesthesia Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH2004 will feature visionary work in every field of digital art: 2D, 3D, interactive techniques, installations, virtual reality, multimedia, telecommunications, web art, and animation.

For further information about the piece, please read Santiago Lombeyda’s page at http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~slombey/art/