Note: This is *really* late in being posted, but I had work to catch up on when I got back :) The last day of SIGGRAPH 2006. I divided my time between papers and sketches, so there was a lot to push into my already overloaded and sleep deprived brain...

The first thing that I saw on day four was the paper "Photo Tourism: Exploring Photo Collections in 3D". It demonstrated a system for taking a collection of images that were taken in a similar area (such as in a town square), extracting features common...

Today I tried to get an early start on the day by avoiding the infamous Boston Big Dig inspired traffic and walking to the convention center. It was a great route that took me past the Boston Common and through Chinatown, and past a very Bostonian train...

The second day was very different to the first, with some papers being presented, a trip through the art gallery and the animation theatre at night. Due to some traffic snarling, I missed the first couple of papers in the morning (a situation that...