Xref: utzoo comp.graphics:18495 comp.graphics.visualization:656 alt.graphics.pixutils:1223 news.groups:32749 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!agate!agate!adrianho From: adrianho@barkley.berkeley.edu (Adrian J Ho) Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.graphics.visualization,alt.graphics.pixutils,news.groups Subject: Where Is Everybody? (RFD: comp.graphics.???) Message-ID: Date: 8 Jun 91 06:04:48 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 145 X-Priority: URGENT!!!!! Subject sez it all -- I haven't seen any posts in two days! I guess it's time for a summary: What We've Got: 1) Two bids for moderator from John Murray (murray@vsjrm.scri.fsu.edu) and John Woolverton (woolstar@cobalt.caltech.edu). Any other volunteers should sign up by Jun 10, so that we can take a straw poll to determine who will be the moderator of the new group. Don't forget to post a resume of sorts, similar to what you see below. (Sorry for the tight deadline, but this discussion is due to terminate Jun 16, and I for one would rather not go into overtime.) For those of you who missed it, the current candidates' introductions are included at the end of this message. What We've Not Got: 1) A name for the newsgroup. At this point, we have the following suggestions (as compiled by John Woolverton): comp.graphics.research comp.graphics.interesting comp.graphics.development comp.graphics.programmer comp.graphics.mod comp.graphics.theory comp.graphics.software As I see it, there's been one heck of a discussion on the above topic, so I guess it's time to take a vote. Send your vote for newsgroup name to: groupname@barkley.berkeley.edu You may place the name you choose anywhere in the message. Voting for the groupname begins now and ends 11:59 pm, Jun 14. I will post a summary of votes around 11:59 pm, Jun 12, and a complete list of who voted which way, along with a tally up the votes, after the voting deadline (if you feel strongly against having names listed against groupname votes, send me email). There will then be 2 days during which you may choose to discuss matter further or correct my summary. 2) A charter. Obviously, this depends on the group name. I'll draw up a charter based on the group name and submit it as early as possible for general approval. C'mon, net.folks! Let's hear some more voices out there -- I can't go this alone!! 8-) Anyway, as promised, a repost of the introductions of our two moderator candidates: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Murray (murray@vsjrm.scri.fsu.edu): What I Do: I am a graphics and Scientific Visualization programmer and support- type person for a scientific research organization. I help scientists in a wide variety of fields produce visualization and presentation graphics animations, with a strong emphasis on the former. We have resident and visiting scientists working in theoretical, high-energy, nuclear and other areas of physics, meteorology, geophysical fluid dynamics, materials sciences, chemistry, biology, genetics, chaos theory, and more. The challenges for a graphics person are unusual and interesting here. I am also 2nd author (of three) of a scientific visualization and animation program, that also supports automatic video recording. It is currently running on our Silicon Graphics 4D-240/GTX and our pseudo- GL-compatible IBM RS6000's. The program is scheduled for beta-release near the end of this year, and will be released into the public domain Real Soon thereafter. (depending on results from the beta-release, of course) If any net.graphics.gurus happened to be there, preliminary results from in-house and limited external use of this package were discussed by the first author, Eric Pepke, at the DoE Graphics Forum in Berkeley last month. Feel free to quiz me further on general terms, but please excuse me if I avoid the specifics. So, you might or might not consider me a graphics researcher, (IMO I am..) however I am definitely a graphics professional, with a strong interest in what's developing out there in my field. Former ACM SIGGRAPH member. Egad, the prices! Besides, SCRI's located on the top floor of the FSU Science Library.. and courtesy of SCRI I am headed for my second SIGGRAPH in a row, and work for Eric who has been there yearly since '85. The Site: FSU is an ESnet T1 site. Our News admin did the same thing for other people on campus before he came here, giving him 3 years as an admin. We have two separate news sites here on campus, i.e. if our (SCRI's) news site goes down, there's another one I can use as an NNTPServer to post through from my workstation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Woolverton (woolstar@cobalt.caltech.edu): What I do, I am a Senior Programmer with Video Bits, a computer graphics animation software company, where I design ray tracing and animation tools for Unix and personal computers. I have designed several generations of our current software, as well as adapting it for X, Motif, and the Mac windowing systems. I work with other computer graphics programmers, evolving our product, and with animation artists in Los Angeles, trying to meet their performance and production needs. My goal to learn about everything in computer graphics, and to use what I know to write the best rendering software that is practical. I'm an expert in ray-tracing, modeling, sampling and 3d math; while I'm a learner in Radiosity, CSG, and artificial reality. I graduated from the Caltech Graphics Lab, home of many "big names" like Jim Kajia, Jim Blinn, and Al Barr (my advisor). Current member of ACM SIGGRAPH. Egad, the prices! I have been religiously attending SIGGRAPH since it came to Los Angeles five years ago. The road trip to Siggraph in Atlanta was an adventure in itself... My home machine is a Silicon Graphics 4d35 Personal Iris. Ha! The site, The local sysadmin has agreed to create a specific account for submissions to this group on the system: nntp-server.caltech.edu Caltech is connected on the west coast NSF backbone, and I have access to it both by TCP and modem backup. This site and account could well exist longer than I, the original VAX BSD system was in place before I got here, and operations migrated to sparc stations seemlessly. My goal, To manage a forum for computer graphics discussion. New ideas, old ideas, what people are using, what's being worked on, what hasn't worked, ... everything. I don't consider the PC hardware and GIFFLE in comp.gr to be computer graphics discussion. (I like the term GIFFLE btw.) I hope to keep a fast turn around. Most of the time I am on the system and can respond quickly. I don't imagine wanting to edit postings, except perhapse the subject line to maintain consistancy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------