SIGGraph Prices -- Jason Gallicchio

Prices at SIGGraph 2000

 

A room at the Marquette House youth hostile

Cost:  $100/week

 

 

Full student SIGGraph registration and irreplaceable badge

Cost:  $230

 

My research group's infamous "Big TV"

Cost:  $15,000

 

3D Face Scanner (basically what Dan did for an EOH project)

Cost:  $10,000 (0.66 Big TVs) 

 

3D force feedback input device, one of which the neighboring research group owns and our research group is always jealous of

Cost:  $15,000 (1 Big TV) 

 

Unusual unmanned both with 1 Big TV, not counting floor space cost

Cost:  $15,000 (1 Big TV) 

 

Semi-circle projection display

Cost:  $20,000 (1.33 Big TVs) 

 

System to capture 3D motion of hot women and cute animals

Cost:  $30,000 (2 Big TVs) 

 

Cheapest 3D plastic resin printer

Cost:  $50,000 (3.33 Big TVs) 

 

Computed Hologram of Ford containing 3 terabytes of information

Cost:  $56,000 (3.73 Big TVs) 

 

Big Ugly Bug in SIGGraph booth

Cost:  $75,000 (5 Big TVs) 

 

Nice force feedback input device

Cost:  $100,000 (6.67 Big TVs) 

 

Just the floor space for SGI booth at SIGGraph for 3 days

Cost:  $150,000 (10 Big TVs) 

 

SIGGraph booth with 10 big TVs, not counting floor space or computers

Cost:  $150,000 (10 Big TVs) 

 

Portable 3D human laser scanner used, a modified version of which was used by a Stanford team to scan Michelangelo's David.

Cost:  $450,000 (30 Big TVs)

 

Escalator Races

Priceless