Media performance unit cell/66b uses real time computer graphics and animation, expanding the performing potential of the human body in a festival of light and sound. The relationship of the performing bodies with visual imagery and soundscape, becomes an ever-shifting dynamics. In the ”test-patches”, cell/66b uses monochrome images and simple sounds related to the essence of body movements to enhance dancers&prime power of expression. Currently,

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The Media Art Work "trails world" is the installation work which can draw the world of beautiful trails interactively. By using pen type device used as an interface a participant decides a theme of trails with the different artistic feature and drawing color, and performs drawing operation on the table which the image projected. The drawn trails of a pen constitute the world of trails which had various forms and colors with the motions of interactive CG and the sounds which directs them changes with themes. In drawing process, a participant is attracted to the world of visionary beauty.

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As the computer has quickly become more powerful and more affordable in recent years, its use has spread widely among people in general. Today many people can create computer-assisted works of art, or works of computer graphics, by themselves. Such works are seen everywhere these days. However, many works of computer graphics tend to be discussed largely from the viewpoint of techniques or images; it is not very often that they are appreciated in their entirety as works of art. In this study, therefore, we took up the calligraphy that is characteristic of Islamic culture. Calligraphy is done on a two-dimensional plane. However, utilizing three-dimensional computer graphics, we represented calligraphy in a three-dimensional virtual space. We thereby explored the potentiality of the expressive power of calligraphy. We also tried to represent Islamic culture in our works of computer graphics by creating them from a cultural point of view. We show that we have thus succeeded in producing three-dimensional calligraphic works which are given the motion.

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SIGGRAPH is an international conference related to CG(Computer Graphics) and Interactive Technology. The conference was held from 21st to 26nd July at San Antonio, Texas, USA. This paper gives an overview of the proceeding of SIGGRAPH′2002.

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