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SIGGRAPH officials announced details for the world’s first known use of a state-of-the-art laser projection system designed to show real-time vector graphics in vibrant, non-pixelated color to play several classic arcade games on a giant projection screen nightly at the San Diego Civic Center from 6-8 August 2007. The classic arcade games of “Asteroids®” and “Tempest™” (courtesy of Atari Interactive, Inc.), and “Star Wars” (courtesy of LucasArts) are three of the ten most popular arcade games of all time, and the only three to use vector graphics, drawn with lines instead of pixels.

The unique video game event will feature celebrity players exhibiting their skills in front of a live audience prior to the nightly unveiling of the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival – known as the world’s premier event for computer graphics and animation. Groundbreaking films presented at the Computer Animation Festival have amazed audiences for three decades. Since 1999, the Festival has also been an official qualifying event for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences "Best Animated Short Film" award.

“Playing these classic games like they’ve never been seen before is the perfect nod to the early days of the video games industry as well as to the early days of computer graphics,” says Paul Debevec, SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival Chair from the University of Southern California Centers for Creative Technologies. “With our festival showcasing the most groundbreaking computer animations from around the globe, including a record number pieces from the video game industry, it’s a thrill to be able to start the show with faithful, larger-than-life versions of the games that helped attract so many of the SIGGRAPH audience to the field of computer graphics.”
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