Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl! From: @decwrl.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.graphics Subject: Info-Graphics Digest Message-ID: <8606082325.AA00467@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sun, 8-Jun-86 06:00:22 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8606082325.AA00467 Posted: Sun Jun 8 06:00:22 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Jun-86 23:51:50 EDT Sender: daemon@styx.UUCP Reply-To: Info-Graphics@aids-unix Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 185 Approved: info-graphics@aids-unix.arpa Info-Graphics Digest Sun Jun 8 03:00:22 PDT 1986 - Send submissions to Info-Graphics@AIDS-Unix - Send requests for list membership to Info-Graphics-Request@AIDS-Unix Today's Topics: Bay Area SIGGRAPH Public Domain Ray-Tracer 3D Protein modelling packages/programs Administrivia: Change in hostname for Info-Graphics ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 86 12:51:19 PDT From: stephan@wilbur.ARPA (Stephan Keith) Subject: Bay Area SIGGRAPH San Francisco Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH Announcement - TITLE: A Recent History of Computer Animation From a Personal Perspective - WHO: Julian E. Gomez, Ph.D. _A_B_S_T_R_A_C_T: Computer animation has garnered much attention over the last few years. Early computer animation was oriented towards assisting the animator and generally worked in multiple levels of two dimensional images. Three dimensional computer animation has always been fascinating, though, and recently computers have become inexpensive and powerful enough to make more complex animation common place. Nowadays it is not unusual to see a whimsical story telling animation such as "Snoot and Muttly" next to a scientific educational piece such as "Halley Flyby / Tempel 2 Rendezvous with Ion Drive. This talk will cover the speaker's experiences in building animation systems and doing animation at the JPL Computer Graphics Laboratory, The Ohio State University CGRG, and Cranston/Csuri Productions. Animation from all of these laboratories will be shown and the techniques explained. _B_I_O_G_R_A_P_H_Y: Julian E. Gomez is a scientist at the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS), located at the NASA Ames Research Center. Prior to that he was at Cranston/Csuri Productions, Inc., after a stay at the Ohio State University Computer Graphics Research Group. He started his graphics activity many years ago at the CalTech/JPL Computer Graphics Laboratory. He received an AB from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. His research interests are computer animation, natural phenomena, and chaotic attractors. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, ACM and SIGGRAPH. -> WHEN: 8:00 pm, Tuesday, 24 June 1986. -> WHERE: The Exploratorium, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco -> ADMINISTRATION: Want to get involved? Help in any capacity? Want to lecture about a topic in Computer Graphics? Please contact Dan Clarke at 408/496-7302. -> ELECTRONIC THEATRE: The San Francisco Bay Area SIGGRAPH is sponsoring an Electronic Theatre composed of work submitted by Local Computer Artists. You are invited to consider submitting work. Format for artwork submitted is to be in one of the following forms only: 3/4" Video, Beta, VHS, 16 mm film, 35mm Slides. Deadline for submissions is mid-September. Show date is late-November. For more information, please contact Helena as follows: Helena Anderson 415/849-9583 Program Chair Bay Area SIGGRAPH P.O. BOX 3553 Santa Clara, CA 95055 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 86 18:34:12 EDT From: Mike Muuss Subject: Public Domain Ray-Tracer BRL's solid modeling system, which includes a solid modeling editor and a ray-tracing package, are available to interested parties at no cost. In addition, a variety of sophisticated analysis codes built on this capability are available for qualified defense contractors. The work is entirely in "C", and is highly portable. The ray-tracer has run on numerous serial machines, plus a pure-parallel MIMD machine (Denelcor HEP) and a parallel-vector MIMD machine (Alliant FX/8). A paper ("Understanding the Preparation and Analysis of Solid Models") is being published this summer which describes the system, and discloses the fundamental mathematics and algorithms needed to build a solid modeling system. If you are interested in using RT (the ray-tracer) merely as a benchmark, I have a fully-packaged benchmark test available now. If you are interested in using the whole package as a CAD system, things are not so well off, and what we currently have is best though of as a "pre-release". It is, however, available. If you are interested, please write for more information. Best, -Mike Muuss (301)-278-6678 AV 283-6678 FTS 939-6678 ArpaNet: UUCP: decvax!brl-bmd!mike Postal: Mike Muuss Leader, Advanced Computer Systems Team Computer Science and Mathematics Branch Systems Engineering and Concepts Analysis Division U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Attn: SLCBR-SECAD (Muuss) APG, MD 21005-5066 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 86 12:47:37 EST From: munnari!goanna.oz!gl@seismo.CSS.GOV (Geoff Leach) Subject: 3D Protein modelling packages/programs I'm looking for info on 3D DNA/protein modelling packages/programs for a Sun-2/160. Basically what are their names, who do I get them from and how much do they cost. Any pointers to recent literature on such packages would also be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Geoff Leach UUCP seismo!munnari!goanna.oz!gl Department of Computing ARPA munnari!goanna.oz!gl@SEISMO.ARPA Royal Melbourne Institute ACS gl@goanna of Technology VOICE (03) 660 2761 GPO Box 2476V Melbourne 3001 Australia. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 86 23:00:00 pdt From: Info-Graphics-Request@ADS.ARPA (Andy Cromarty) Subject: Administrivia: Change in hostname for Info-Graphics Commencing with this issue of Info-Graphics, the preferred addresses for the Info-Graphics digest are Info-Graphics@ADS.arpa -- articles for redistribution Info-Graphics-Request@ADS.arpa -- requests, help, info, etc. Our machine name is changing from AIDS-UNIX to ADS to catch up with our corporate name change of last year. These changes take a while to percolate through the network, so if mail to ADS.ARPA is rejected because your machine doesn't know of any node by that name, try the old AIDS-UNIX.ARPA, which will remain viable for a few more months while the network host tables settle. Andy Cromarty Info-Graphics-Request@ADS.ARPA ------------------------------ End of INFO-GRAPHICS ********************