lsu-cctLSU’s Center for Computation and Technology (CCT) has a booth at SIGGRAPH to showcase the results of their new AVATAR initiative.  AVATAR stands for Arts, Visualization, Advanced Technologies and Research, and is a multidisciplinary group focused on merging art, technology, and computation into new areas.  Some of the things they’ll be showing include:

Xin Li, a professor with CCT and the LSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will display examples of his research into shape mapping, which analyzes similarities between two unlike shapes. Shape-mapping is a useful tool to help scientists and artists alike analyze geometric data for patterns. Li has developed a shape-mapping paradigm that allows researchers to make comparisons between two objects in different dimensions, such as 1-D curves, 2-D surfaces, or 3-D solid objects.

and this:

Robert Kooima, a CCT post-doctoral researcher who conducts research as part of AVATAR, is the LSU instructor. He recently built a 52-inch TacTile LCD touch table that students can use to play and display their video games, giving them a place to experiment with multi-touch gaming. Kooima will display the table and some of the top video games students produced this semester at the CCT booth during SIGGRAPH.

They’ll also have some audio projects such as the Immersive Computer Controlled Audio Sound Theater (ICAST), a 27-channel surround sound system.

via HPCwire: CCT to Present at SIGGRAPH 2009.