September 2007, Ulm
Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, September 2007 was the setting for the RT07 conference, a conference which focuses on real-time rendering, and in fact, mostly on raytracing. Although my primary task at mental images is rasterization, not raytracing, I am still interested in the latter, and in any case, there are many common techniques. Given the media and advertising circus which Siggraph has become, combined with the fact that you are treated like a criminal upon entry to the States (I was finger-printed last time, something which is now apparently routine), I decided that unless there are very special reasons, I will avoid future American conferences and attend the more interesting ones in Europe, until the situation improves.
RT07 started small, relatively recently, but has quickly gained a strong reputation, so I was keen to see what would be presented.
On the way to Ulm, we saw this neat shadow/rainbow combination. It is not often you get the opportunity to see that a rainbow is actually potentially a full circle, not just an arc.
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