Some fun from SIGGRAPH 2025

This talk presented 10 videos:

Just for fun!

• 1. Flink's Pigeon Problems - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n94l6_mvqGw
  • (A film from Skydance Animation in Madrid)
• 2. In Between - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8g0BS4TPXs
  • (This is a student film from ARTFX in France.)
• 3. Turbulence - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFYtXwj4QMk
  • (A travel horror story - produced with the Houdini animation software from SideFX, based in Toronto)

Scientific visualization videos

• 4. Perpetual Ocean 2: Western Boundary Currents - https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5425
• (NASA Scientific Visualization Studio always presents a visualization film at SIGGRAPH every year. The idea is to use animation to increase our understanding of huge amounts of detailed data.)
• 5. The Pillars of Creation and the Interplay of Stars and Dust - https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/the-pillars-of-creation-and-the-interplay-of-stars-and-dust/
  • (Other NASA divisions use animation for presenting their results - this one is from the James Webb Telescope team.)

Graphics technology

• 6. Drawing With Light -- one segment of SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live
• (Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRukZM0d1s and watch the demo starting at 31:03, ending at 37:43)
  • (This video is a demo at one of the main SIGGRAPH sessions. The "system" is a combination of standard graphics tools combined with AI-based generation of images.)

An interesting video by Mike Keith

• 7. Not a Muse - (not available online)
  • (We showed this video back in March 2025 -- it was created singlehandedly by Mike Keith as part of his "Pilish" project. The narration is in Pilish... the number of letters in each word is chosen to match the digits of Pi! Mike used the software Unreal Engine to make the video... it's a popular tool for designing video game graphics.)

More fun - Some older videos from prior SIGGRAPHs

• 8. A Tale Of Momentum & Inertia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg2dqFCU67Q
• 9. Mice, a small story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LEvx4MeV-k
• 10. Splendor - https://vimeo.com/345230299

More about the SIGGRAPH conference

If you want a quick introduction to the SIGGRAPH technical program, there is a good 5-minute overview video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHC0wNYry8