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The Toronto ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter was again a proud exhibitor at the IMMERSED conference, held by The Immersive Technology Alliance at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto on Oct. 4-6th, 2015. This year, the conference began once again with an immersive technology exhibition that was free and open to the public, followed by two days […]

On Sept. 29th, the Toronto ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter had the pleasure of hosting the founder of TooMuchVoltage Software, Baktash Abdollah-shamzir-saz, for it’s first event of the 2015 Fall Season. Baktash is a prolific, self-taught programmer, having written from scratch every line of code in the HighOmega 2.0 game engine, distributed by TooMuchVoltage. Hosted at the […]

Members of the Toronto ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter were once again proud to be active at the SIGGRAPH Conference.  This year our Chair, Jacky Bibliowicz, was once again the ACM SIGGRAPH International Resources Co-Chair.  Additionally, our Member-At-Large Gillian Chesnais worked in the Real-Time Live! subcommittee.  And our Vice-Chair, Kristine Oel, was there to make sure we stayed […]

On May 20th, the Toronto ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter had the pleasure of hosting our Expert Series presentation: High Performance Computing in Computer Graphics. We would like to thank the Dynamic Graphics Project and SysNet at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Toronto for sponsoring this event. We would also like to thank our amazing […]

We are excited to share with you our entry into the ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter Pride Sweepstakes!  We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed putting this video together.  You may recognize some faces… including your own! Don’t forget to come out to our next event on High-Performace Computing and Graphics!  See you next […]

The year 2015 continues with our first event in partnership with TorCHI, Toronto ACM SIGCHI Chapter. We were delighted to bring our guest, ACM Distinguished Speaker Dr. Michael Macedonia, to give his presentation on “Next Generation Virtual Worlds” not once, but twice! Our day began with a short trip to Markham, where our sponsor AMD […]

What a great start to an amazing event season here at the Toronto ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter! We had the pleasure to bring the SIGGRAPH 2014 Computer Animation Festival (CAF) Electronic Theater to the Monarch Tavern on Thursday March 5th. It was fantastic to see everyone who came out to join us from all over Ontario. Due […]

Season’s greetings to the Computer Graphic community of Toronto! Thank you so much to everyone who braved the rain, sleet and snow to donate a toy to Toronto Fire Services Hall 315. Over 20 toys (2 boxes) will be given to needy children, distributed across our local neighbourhood. Thank you to Stereo D for bringing your team […]

At our Tech Talks II, we had the pleasure of seeing both new faces and dedicated Toronto ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter members, at the Monarch Tavern. The evening began with refreshing beverages, followed by two great presentations, bringing the spirit of SIGGRAPH home to Toronto. Thank you members and thank you speakers.   Our first guest […]

The candidates for our Board of Directors election, scheduled for November, have been announced. Candidates For Vice-President: Kristine Oel Kristine Oel would like to continue in her role as Vice President of the Toronto ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter. With 23 years in the Computer Graphics Industry, she is focused upon giving back to the CG community […]