The community I work in, revisited

I am in Austin this week for IEEE Visualization. This is a far friendlier conference than SIGGRAPH was. It's also vastly smaller: about 700 people, whereas SIGGRAPH this year was about 27,000. This lends it a much more personable atmosphere. It also leaves room for some fun. Here are a couple of excerpts from the networking handout...

( Are you happy, citizen? )

I wish things like this would show up more often. It's a nice change of pace.