Graphics news 2006-06-22

Children who wanted to see themselves "morphed" posed for a digital photo snapped by a librarian. That image then went to library graphic designer Cathi Bartels, who custom-distorted each one on a computer using Adobe Photoshop.

At another activity station, children lined up to have their photos taken with a Harry Potter effigy that sports a Gryffindor scarf, a library summer reading program T-shirt, a stuffed owl and a Golden Snitch along with Harrys trademark glasses. Librarians promised to e-mail the digital snapshots to patrons home computers and handed out free souvenir Snitches to whoever wanted one.

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I sent the initial presentation to Mr. Baen from my work computer on the morning of or thereabouts. In that message, I described myself as a fan of Mr. Webers work, as well as a graphic designer, and proffered the presentation as an example of fan art. Later that day, Mr. Baen replied to me, and asked if I would consent to the presentation being displayed on the web site. I consented, and before the end of the day, Arnold Bailey had posted the PowerPoint presentation.

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He loves the colorful Massachusetts redware. Ms. Arakelian said she has been influenced by art her entire life. Her father was an artist and graphic designer. She earned a bachelor?s degree in commercial art from Anna Maria College. As local pottery was her husband?s passion, artistic invention was hers.

I decided I wanted to be a little more creative than just sitting in front of a computer and putting stuff together,? she said. She began making jewelry and painting. In the 1980s she worked at Worcester Art Museum, supervised art teachers and involved herself in Worcester?s art community.

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For four years I was running the R and D group, and our mission was to further the cause of computer entertainment through research that wasn?t games. And we were looking at technologies and tools and learning and understanding what could eventually be applied to games, but we weren?t actually developing games themselves. So we split the group into some areas of special interest. Some of which was on high performance graphics and the area there was really to borrow from the non real-time Siggraph type papers and bring them into the real-time because of Playstation 2. Because the power of that machine we could then suddenly start taking these algorithms, we could start running them in real-time, so that was one area of the group. ?

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