ack@glasgow.UUCP (Alistair Kilgour) (06/20/84)
Advanced Course on 3D Computer Graphics ======================================= An advanced course on 3D computer graphics, sponsored jointly by SERC in the UK and the CREST-ITG committee of the EEC, is being held at the University of Glasgow from Mon 27th August to Fri 7th Sept 1984. Speakers include Ed Catmull Rob Cook, Frank Crow, Turner Whitted, David Clark and Robin Forrest. Topics covered will be 3d viewing and modelling transformations, solid modelling, design and display of curves and surfaces, TV technology for graphics, colour specification and control, anti-aliasing, illumination and shading, animation, stochastic modelling and high performance graphics hardware. The course fee is 360 pounds, and meals and accommodation cost 260 pounds. Fee scholarships are available for well-qualified candidates from universities colleges or research institutes,and there are also a limited number of travel scholarships for delegates from EEC countries other than the UK. For course brochure and application form write to Mr R Hurley, CREST Course Secretariat, CEP Consultants Ltd, 26 Albany Street, Edinburgh EH1 3QH. (Tel 031-557 2478). For further information contact Alistair Kilgour, CREST Course Director, Dept of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 14 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK. (Tel 041-339 8855 ext 7458) or at USENET address ...!decvax!mcvax!ukc!edcaad!edee!glasgow!ack (omit "!decvax" in Europe) or ...!vax135!ukc!edcaad!edee!glasgow!ack (omit "!vax135" in UK) or via CSNet (in US) glasgow!ack%edee%rco%ucl-cs%@CSNet-Relay