I was wondering how SIGGRAPH's "sexiness" paper criterion played out with all consequences, but never really sat down and looked into it, being satisfied with all the highlights and cool results.
Rejecting "systems papers" despite being valuable and novel definitely seems like an oversight this could produce. As "flashiness" is a key part of SIGGRAPH, I'm wondering whether there could be an alternative conference, or maybe a subconference that's as competitive/prestigious but is a bit more friendly to stuff like graphics systems?
Actually, that was one of the goals of High Performance Graphics. We explicitly merged the low brow Ray Tracing Symposium and Graphics Hardware, precisely so we could publish and discuss interesting systems-ey things that move the world forward but often aren't really broad or sexy enough for a general SIGGRAPH audience. I don't think there's a great way for it to be considered equally prestigious, but as an author you know (for better or for worse) that you'll have more sympathetic readership.
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I was wondering how SIGGRAPH's "sexiness" paper criterion played out with all consequences, but never really sat down and looked into it, being satisfied with all the highlights and cool results.
Rejecting "systems papers" despite being valuable and novel definitely seems like an oversight this could produce. As "flashiness" is a key part of SIGGRAPH, I'm wondering whether there could be an alternative conference, or maybe a subconference that's as competitive/prestigious but is a bit more friendly to stuff like graphics systems?
Actually, that was one of the goals of High Performance Graphics. We explicitly merged the low brow Ray Tracing Symposium and Graphics Hardware, precisely so we could publish and discuss interesting systems-ey things that move the world forward but often aren't really broad or sexy enough for a general SIGGRAPH audience. I don't think there's a great way for it to be considered equally prestigious, but as an author you know (for better or for worse) that you'll have more sympathetic readership.