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Also, a little late, but congratulations to D. Travis North (aka Coplan / Fulcrum) on the birth of his baby daughter on July 29th! His European compadres even made a demo in his honor for Buenzli.

If you see something about “RVScene“, it’s not a typo…

(from the Demoscene.us NVScene forum)

Okay, so - if you’re living in the US (or, should we say: within traveling distance from California you should seriously get yourself a ticket for NVScene - just check out who is on the speaker list:
http://www.nvision2008.com/Enthusiasts/nvscene_speakers.cfm

“Deconstructing Demos - From Conception to Performance”
Presented by Konstantinos Pataridis (Navis from ASD)

“Exploring Chunks of Time - Interactive Elements in ‘Linger In Shadows’”
Presented by: Michal Staniszewski (Bonzaj from Plastic)

“From .kkrieger to debris. - Procedural Content Generation Taken to Extremes”
Presented by Dierk Ohlerich (Chaos from Farbrausch)

“Rendering Worlds with Two Triangles - Raytracing on the GPU”
Presented by Iñigo Quilez (IQ from RGBA)

“Expanding the Limits of 4K - History and Evolution of TBC Intros and Tools”
Presented by Rune Stubbe (Mentor from TBC)

“Understanding Realtime as Design Potential”
Presented by Thomas Mann (Pixtur from Still)

“The Other Side of Demo Coding - Translating Concepts into Code”
Presented by Martti Nurmikari (Preacher from Traction)

“The History of the Demoscene”
Presented by Bent Stamnes (Gloom from Excess, Portal Process and scene.org), Gergely Szeley (Gargaj from Conspiracy), Ekkehard Brüggemann (steeler from digitalekulture.ev and Breakpoint)

Created by Scene.org:

And don’t forget to come to NVision ‘08/NVScene!

Capped.TV will have a presence there, in the form of Capped.TV Authorized Juice Kiosks™. Which will include HD captures of many of the demos featured in the reel above, plus many more.

Don’t forget to register.

For those who enjoy both demos and computer animation, SIGGRAPH will host five days of both at their Computer Animation Festival, from August 11th-15th, 2008. On the 14th, Kevin Mack of Sony Pictures Imageworks will have a panel discussion on the demoscene in conjunction with the Zine diskmag crew. It all takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This Pouet.net thread has more info.

The pre-reg date for NVision/NVScene has been extended again, this time to July 31st.

So if you STILL haven’t registered, you now have another month to get the discount.

As of this writing, only 19 people have signed up for demoscene seats [according to the online seating chart]. Please register and support this party! In addition to the discount, if you register now you can select a good seat on the seating chart.

Register Here [ http://www.amireg.com/nvision08/intro.html ]

The “mini demoparty” (yes, that was the name), held in San Francisco on June 15th, attracted 25 visitors, including long-time scene veterans and some visitors/transplants from other countries. There were only three competition entries, and one of them was the voting form :). But the winner, Ledtro, made on an ATmega-powered a 25×25 LED display, is definitely worth checking out. There’s also a bit on Pfister’s blog. Head to the mini-demoparty website for results, attendee list (find out who had waffles!), and photo links, along with the info page humorously rewritten in past tense, and a novel idea of “unlocked” prizes depending on number of entries (in the end, GD, the organizer, decided to give them all out anyway). Let’s hope for some more productive mini parties!

The competition prizes for NVScene 2008 have been announced. For the winning demo, how does $5,000 and two GeForce cards (specific models not given yet, but we can assume high-end) sound? Not to mention what may be the largest prize ever for a 1st place 4k intro: $2,000 plus a GeForce card. The payouts extend to the top 5 entries in each compo. Finally, every ticket-holder at NVScene will receive a free academic copy of SoftImage XSI, just for registering.

nVision’s Early-Bird Registration has been extended to June 30th, for those who haven’t yet got a ticket to NVScene yet, you’re in luck!

Register Here [ http://www.amireg.com/nvision08/intro.html ]

NVidia is holding a programming contest to take the C source of the LAME MP3 encoder and rewrite it to be as fast as possible. The catch? It must be written in CUDA, NVidia’s GPU programming language, meaning it uses the graphics processor of a GeForce 8 or 9 series card. Top prize is $5,000. The contest is open only to US and Canada residents, and ends on July 25th, 2008. For more details:

cudacontest.nvidia.com

There will be a mini demoparty on June 15 in the SOMA district of San Francisco. The theme for the party compo is “bowling,” and there is a single wild competition for all entries, including demos, art, music, live performances, or whatever else gets submitted. The party has limited space, so only invited sceners are asked to attend.

The party sounds like good fun, and its neat to see things like this taking place. Plus, the bowling-themed compo should produce some… interesting prods. More information is available at the party website.

Update: If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and haven’t received an invitation yet, get in touch with gd.

Everyone who’s signed up for NVScene should be getting a e-mail right about now.

Inside you’ll find a login and key for the backend web interface where you can submit prods and also see if you’re getting any demokits! You’re also able to confirm the mailing address for the demokits. Unfortunately signups are closed for now, though you can still enter the compos if you haven’t signed up. Remember NVision registration is still open, and the $50 deal is going through the end of the month.

Big thanks to the party organizers and Nvidia for the kits.

Remember there is still 2 months+ before the party! Let us know you’re coming, by signing the Who’s Attending list.

Hope to see you all there!