Cool cutting edge graphics
 

Since there's no action in this forum, I thought I'd post some cool links.
SIGGRAPH is the be-all end-all annual event in computer graphics. The latest technology is shown here, and a few years later, it starts to show up in commercial applications.
Here is a link of all the technical papers presented at SIGGRAPH 2008.
http://kesen.huang.googlepages.com/sig2008.html
Some of it is too technical for me to understand, but the demo videos speak for themselves.

All kinds of stuff - painting, motion capture, rigging, realtime global illumination, soft body dynamics, etc... check it out!

Re: Cool cutting edge graphics
 

Pretty interesting stuff. Then I saw the words "Differential Equations" and hid under my desk.

I don't know what half the titles are even hinting at, but the ones I understand seem pretty cool... and just when I thought I had photoshop mastered...

Re: Cool cutting edge graphics
 

Some of my favorites are:
Fast Viscoelastic Behavior with Thin Features - doing bad things to the Stanford bunny (a test model that replaced the buddah that replaced the Utah Teapot)
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/%7Ewojtan/

Articulated Mesh Animation from Multi-view Silhouettes - motion capture from silhouttes - no markers involved http://people.csail.mit.edu/jovan/

Real-Time Gradient-Domain Painting - http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/gradient-paint/

Self-Animating Images: Illusory Motion Using Repeated Asymmetric Patterns
This will make your eyes buggy! they appear to move, but they don't.
http://graphics.csie.ncku.edu.tw/SAI/