[bd]

If you like physics simulations, there were some very cool papers at this year's SIGGRAPH:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMsc48e41AQ (A Practical Simulation of Dispersed Bubble Flow)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyfB_vQHMAo (Physics-Inspired Topology Changes for Thin Fluid Features)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Who8EpbvCY (A Multiscale Approach to Mesh-based Surface Tension Flows)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHH8N_lNZzI (Rigid-Body Fracture Sound)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx80u6hJT6o (Efficient Yarn-based Cloth with Adaptive Contact Linearization)

[smackfu]

I'm so happy that YouTube now has HD options so that researches don't feel the need to post 100 MB Quicktime videos of their presentations, hosted on sad servers that can't handle it.

[maximilian]

Whats the deal with the rabbit that keeps popping up? Is it the physics simulation's Lena?

[JabavuAdams]

It's the Stanford Bunny.

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/bunny/bunny.html

It was preceded by the Utah Teapot. There's also the Cornell Box, for global illumination testing.

So, yeah, like Lena.

[rbanffy]

> It was preceded by the Utah Teapot

Teapotahedron, please. It's the sixth platonic solid.

[Gibbon]

I also vaguely remember one of the popular 3d software packages having a bald eagle as one of the primitives.

[shalmanese]

The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository: http://graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Dscanrep/

I've seen the bunny and the happy buddha the most often.

[sparky]

Were? SIGGRAPH hasn't even happened yet! :P

[aw3c2]

http://kesen.realtimerendering.com/sig2010.html