woolstar@nntp-server.caltech.edu (John D. Woolverton) (06/05/91)
After cleaning up the comp.graphics.interesting stuff and discussing this darn news thing with Adrian Ho, I am making a clear bid as moderator of this new group: comp.graphics.I 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. For now, I would like to see if there is any serious support for the following, or any other news group names. Some people probably don't care, but others seem to have strong views. A partial list of names that have currently been brought up and discussed are: comp.graphics.research comp.graphics.interesting comp.graphics.development comp.graphics.programmer comp.graphics.mod comp.graphics.theory comp.graphics.software I'd like to compile a list of possible names, so that we can call a preliminary vote for the name before it's time for the final vote. woolstar@cobalt.caltech.edu "Proofread carefully to see if you any words out." "I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a bookmark." -- Steven Wright
jk87377@cc.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia) (06/06/91)
In article <1991Jun5.150157.14003@nntp-server.caltech.edu> woolstar@nntp-server.caltech.edu (John D. Woolverton) writes: > >I'd like to compile a list of possible names, so that we can >call a preliminary vote for the name before it's time for >the final vote. And then we should call a preliminary vote for the moderator. You, Murray,... others? Juhana Kouhia