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From: webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Siggraph Course Notes (was re: Ray Tracing Bibliography ...)
Message-ID: <331@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 23:33:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: brandx.331
Posted: Thu Aug 20 23:33:04 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 15:09:12 EDT
References: <469@uoregon.UUCP> <194@caeco.UUCP>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Summary: doubtful

In article <194@caeco.UUCP>, john@caeco.UUCP (John Rigby) writes:
> in article <469@uoregon.UUCP>, markv@uoregon.UUCP (Mark VandeWettering) says:
> > ...
> > By the way, a much more complete bibliography appeared in this years
> > Siggraph course notes on raytracing.  If you can get a copy of the
> > Introduction to Raytracing notes, by all means do so.  They are an
> > EXCELLENT introduction to raytracing.
> 
> Is there any way that I can get a copy of these notes???

The Siggraph course notes are not publications, but are actually meant as
``course notes,'' i.e., notes handed out by a teacher to supplement 
a lecture.  By being such, they take on a different aspect under
copyright law and other agreements.  There is a printing of the notes
that is then sold to interested people who attend the conference.  Many
of the notes sell out at the conference.  I have heard that sometimes
leftovers have become available on some sort of spot market.  If you
want to investigate the possibility that there were leftovers, then
you should contact the ACM SIGGRAPH organization who recently sent
a news message containing the following:

   Mail sent to siggraph@waterloo.edu will be forwarded to the appropriate
   person within ACM SIGGRAPH.  Usually a direct response will be provided
   if the message is forwarded, so you know that someone is processing the
   request.

They should also be able to put you in contact with the people who did
that particular course who are probably on the net and doubtless also 
not in the business of printing off such notes.

Best of luck in your quest (and in the parallel quests of countless
others whose hypothetical existance is the reason this was posted to
the net).

------------------------ BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu)