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Esports is a growing worldwide phenomenon now rivaling traditional sports, with a deep dependence on real-time graphics technology. Despite this, the SIGGRAPH research community has largely ignored it. This panel brings together esports experts in engineering, medicine as well as cognitive and data science to argue that this must change. Like film, esports is an important problem for computer graphics, and could give rise to technologies and techniques benefitting not only esports, but society more broadly. With a series of moderated and audience questions, this panel will sketch the research challenges and potential benefits of esports, while also considering its risks.

Many graphics applications, and interactive systems in particular, rely on hierarchical surface representations to efficiently process very complex models. Considerable attention has been focused on hierarchies of surface approximations and their construction via automatic surface simplification. Such representations have proven effective for adapting the level of detail used in real time display systems. However, other applications such as ray tracing, collision detection, and radiosity benefit from an alternative multiresolution framework: hierarchical partitions of the original surface geometry. We present a new method for representing a hierarchy of regions on a polygonal surface which partition that surface dinto a set of face clusters. These clusters, which are connected sets of faces, represent the aggregate properties of the original surface at different scales rather than providing geometric approximations of varying complexity. We also describe the combination of an effective error metric and a novel algorithm for constructing these hierarchies. CR Categories: I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and Object Modeling—surface and object representations