murray@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (John Murray) (06/04/91)
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Yuck! this reminds me of writing a resume.
After discussions with Adrian (he is, after all, the person who had the
wherewithal to make the newgroup discussion offical) I am officially
submitting my bid as moderator of comp.graphics.research. (or .whatever --
I favor .research, but think .theory is just as good/just as bad)
What I Do:
I am a graphics and Scientific Visualization programmer and support-
type person for a scientific research organization. I help scientists
in a wide variety of fields produce visualization and presentation graphics
animations, with a strong emphasis on the former. We have resident and
visiting scientists working in theoretical, high-energy, nuclear and
other areas of physics, meteorology, geophysical fluid dynamics, materials
sciences, chemistry, biology, genetics, chaos theory, and more. The
challenges for a graphics person are unusual and interesting here.
I am also 2nd author (of three) of a scientific visualization and
animation program, that also supports automatic video recording. It is
currently running on our Silicon Graphics 4D-240/GTX and our pseudo-
GL-compatible IBM RS6000's. The program is scheduled for beta-release
near the end of this year, and will be released into the public domain
Real Soon thereafter. (depending on results from the beta-release, of course)
If any net.graphics.gurus happened to be there, preliminary results from
in-house and limited external use of this package were discussed by the
first author, Eric Pepke, at the DoE Graphics Forum in Berkeley last month.
Feel free to quiz me further on general terms, but please excuse me if I
avoid the specifics.
So, you might or might not consider me a graphics researcher, (IMO I am..)
however I am definitely a graphics professional, with a strong interest in
what's developing out there in my field.
Former ACM SIGGRAPH member. Egad, the prices! Besides, SCRI's located
on the top floor of the FSU Science Library.. and courtesy of SCRI I am
headed for my second SIGGRAPH in a row, and work for Eric who has been
there yearly since '85.
The Site:
FSU is an ESnet T1 site.
Our News admin did the same thing for other people on campus before
he came here, giving him 3 years as an admin.
We have two separate news sites here on campus, i.e. if our (SCRI's)
news site goes down, there's another one I can use as an NNTPServer to
post through from my workstation.
Comments? Questions? Got a better rap-sheet, or am I still the only
person crazy enough to volunteer for this?...
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