Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ADS.ARPA!Info-Graphics-Request From: Info-Graphics-Request@ADS.ARPA (Info-Graphics moderator Andy Cromarty) Newsgroups: comp.graphics.digest Subject: Info-Graphics Digest Message-ID: <8705241123.AA24708@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sun, 24-May-87 06:00:26 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8705241123.AA24708 Posted: Sun May 24 06:00:26 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 24-May-87 19:36:56 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-Graphics@ADS.ARPA Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 236 Approved: info-graphics@ads.arpa Info-Graphics Digest Sun May 24 03:00:26 PDT 1987 - Send submissions to Info-Graphics@ADS.ARPA - Send requests for list membership to Info-Graphics-Request@ADS.ARPA Today's Topics: Graphics Metafile Curve Smoothing Sources wanted. SIGGRAPH '87 Attendees 5/26 Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH meeting fast rendering on iris ReGIS for MACs & AMIGAs SURFMODL 1.2 Now Available ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 May 87 16:10 EDT From: LAUZZANA%ecs.umass.edu@RELAY.CS.NET Subject: Graphics Metafile X-Vms-To: COINS::IN%"info-graphics@ads.arpa" That was a very nice list of where to get specs for various standards. But, what about CGM, Computer Graphics Metafile? Eurographics will be having a conference in Maryland, next September. Where do we get the specs? Ray Lauzzana ------------------------------ From: Nancy Yavne Date: Sun, 17 May 87 13:18:03 -0200 info-graphics@ads.arpa Subject: Curve Smoothing Sources wanted. I am looking for sources of Curve Fitting algorithms both Polynomial Interpolation and Spline Interpolation implementations are welcomed. The problem at hand is to connect 4 or 5 points with aesthetically pleasing curves. Thank You Alex Polyak uucp: ihnp4!talcott!WISDOM!nancy ARPA: nancy%wisdom.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu BITNET: nancy@wisdom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Petchalnee net povesti na svete Chem povest o Romeo i Julete !" | Shakespeare ---- | ---- | ---- ---- -+- ----- ----- | ---- | ---- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 May 1987 10:27:28 EDT From: (William J. Joel) Subject: SIGGRAPH '87 Attendees Once again the annual SIGGRAPH conference is approaching and it is time to create a list of attendees for distribution to Info-Graphics. If you plan to attend SIGGRAPH '87 in Anaheim, CA, just drop me a note stating - the dates you'll be there - which courses, if any, you'll attend (including the Educator's Workshop on Monday evening) - whether you'd like to get together or not Send this info, with your name and institution, to William J. Joel Bitnet: jzem@marist I will post a compiled list sometime in the beginning of July. Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: 19 May 1987 15:49:26-WET From: malcolm Hello , Does anyone out there know of the existence of a Tekronix 4100 series emulator for a PC/XT compatible. ( PD would be rather nice ) Thankyoueversomuch, Malcolm John Fforbes-Smythe-Taylor Polytechnic of Central London 115 New Cavendish St London W1M 8JS PS. If anyone can offer any help I'll buy them a beer at Eurographics at Amsterdam in August. Try these addresses :- malcolm%uk.ac.pcl.lynx@ukacrl.bitnet BITNET malcolm%ib.rl.ac.uk EARN malcolm%uk.ac.pcl.lynx@cs.ucl.ac.uk ARPA mcvax!ukc!uk.ac.pcl.lynx!malcolm UUCP ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 87 11:35:16 pdt From: Siggraph Subject: 5/26 Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH meeting Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH meeting Earcon and Eyecons Non-Verbal Communication in sight and sound Dr. Meera Blattner UC Davis and LLNL Tuesday May 26, 1987 at 8:00 PM Exploratorium, McBean Theater Topic: Icons show us how to structure graphics messages non-verbally. The iconic equivalent to messages in sound are called "earcons." Icons and earcons are used in the user interface to provide information and feedback to the user about computer entities. This information can be designed in a similar fashion to impart the same information. Dr. Meera Blatter will present a set of design guidelines for a syntax of icons and earcons. Speaker Meera Blattner is on the University of California - Davis faculty and is currently teaching at the Department of Applied Sciences in Livermore thought a joint appointment between the UC and LLNL. Her speciality involves user interfaces and data conversion and has been work working with sound and interfaces for about 5 years. Dr. Blattner taught at Rice University in Texas and was Program Director for the National Science Foundation's Theoretical Computer Science section. She received her PhD from UCLA. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 87 17:19:36 cet From: NSHIRAL3%UA1VM.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu Subject: fast rendering on iris I AM WORKING ON ANIMATION USING AN IRIS 2400 WITH C CALLABLE GRAPHICS LIBRARY . I WOULD APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS ON FAST POLYGON RENDERING AND BENCHMARKS THEREOF IF ANY . THANKS. NAGESH SHIRALI ( NSHIRAL3@UA1VM BITNET ) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 87 09:07 EDT From: LAUZZANA%ecs.umass.edu@RELAY.CS.NET Subject: ReGIS for MACs & AMIGAs X-Vms-To: COINS::IN%"Info-Graphics@ads.arpa" Does anyone out ther know where to get a VT-240/ReGIS terminal emulator for MACs & Amigas? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 87 15:09:03 EDT From: Kenneth Van Camp -FSAC- Subject: SURFMODL 1.2 Now Available SURFMODL version 1.2 is now available from SIMTEL-20, INFO-IBMPC, and on diskette. The major enhancements over version 1.1 are that it is now fully functional on the Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) and the Heath/Zenith Z-100, thanks to Russ Nelson. Those versions now also compile without the Turbo Graphix Toolbox. As before, SURFMODL also runs on the standard CGA, Hercules (still not fully functional, though), Sanyo MBC-55x, AT&T 6300 and IBM 3270. The files to get from SIMTEL-20 are: PD:SURFMVS2.ARC CRC = BE 5C PD:SURFMOD2.ARC CRC = B5 A5 These files contain all source files and executables, as well as sample data files and documentation. Alternatively, you can get just the source, documentation, and data files from C.ISI.EDU (USC-ISIB). I uploaded the new files to: UNDIGEST.PAS SURFMODL.DIG Version 1.2 is also (finally!) available on diskette, for those of you who have trouble downloading electronically. For $11.50 (in the U.S.) or $15.50 (foreign), you can order all three of the SURFMODL release disks from: MicroCom Systems P.O. Box 51657 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Ask for diskettes GRAPHICS-2a, b and c. There is also now the beginnings of a C version of SURFMODL, thanks to Dave Forslund's efforts in converting it. Right now it only runs on the SUN workstation under NEWS, so I am not really "releasing" it. However, anybody who wants to tool around with it to try and make it run on other systems is welcome to a copy. I have packaged it all up in 6 digests, just like I did for the Pascal version, and I will e-mail the source to anyone who requests it. (Total about 280K.) And finally, for those of you who don't know what SURFMODL is, it is a public domain surface modeler (some would call it a "solids modeler"), written in Turbo Pascal, that does 3-D wireframe, hidden line, or shaded image drawings from any perspective, with single or multiple light sources. I have also started a small "routing list", so that people who are interested in SURFMODL can keep abreast of the latest developments. Let me know if you would like your name added to the list. --Ken Van Camp ------------------------------ End of INFO-GRAPHICS ********************