samackay@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Stephen MacKay) (04/25/91)
Graphics Interface '91 - Preliminary Program ================================= June 3-7, 1991. Calgary, Alberta, Canada This is the preliminary program for the technical sessions at Graphics Interface '91, held in conjunction with Vision Interface '91. To get your registration kit or more information, contact: Billie Summers phone: (403) 220-4987 fax: (403) 289-7287 Alternatively, send a message to e-mail address: camille@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (including your full postal address), and your request will be forwarded. Early registration deadline is May 1. Wednesday, June 5 ================= 8:30 PARAMETRIC AND STOCHASTIC MODELING Chairman: Brian Wyvill, U. of Calgary Parametrizing Singularly to Enclose Data Points by a Smooth Parametric Surface Jorg Peters, IBM - T. J. Watson Research Ctr. Algorithms for B-patches Hans-Peter Seidel, U. of Waterloo Drawing Parametric Curves Using Chebyshev Polynomials John Buchanan and Alain Fournier, U. of British Columbia A Multiple-Scale Stochastic Modelling Primitive Jos Stam and Eugene Fiume, U. of Toronto 11:00 INVITED TALK Gamut Mapping Computer Generated Imagery Maureen Stone and William Wallace, Xerox PARC and U. of Waterloo 13:30 SHADING AND TEXTURE Chairman: Marceli Wein, National Research Council A Piecewise Polynomial Approach to Shading Using Spectral Distributions Maria Raso and Alain Fournier, Alias Research Inc. A Spectral Database for Realistic Image Synthesis Gary Meyer and Richard Hale, U. of Oregon The Filtering of 3d Textures John Buchanan, U. of British Columbia 15:30 INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES 1 Chairman: Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, U. of Regina Differential Manipulation Michael Gleicher amd Andrew Witkin, CMU. LEFTY: A Two-view Editor for Technical Pictures D. Dobkin and E. Koutsofios, AT&T Bell Laboratories Design Issues for Line-Driven Text Editing/Annotation Systems Gary Hardock, U. of Toronto Graphical Interaction Techniques in Constraint-Based Geometric Modeling Steve Sistare, Harvard U. Thursday, June 6 ================ 8:30 RAY TRACING Chairman: Kellogg S. Booth, U. of British Columbia Automatic Termination Criteria for Ray Tracing Hierarchies K. R. Subramanian and Donald S. Fussell, U. of Texas at Austin Spatio-Temporal Coherence in Ray Tracing J. Chapman, T. Calvert and J. Dill, Simon Fraser U. Expoliting Shadow Coherence in Ray Tracing Andrew Pearce and David Jevans, Alias Research Inc. and U. of Calgary 10:30 RENDERING Chairman: Dave Forsey, U. of British Columbia A Ray Tracing Framework for Global Illumination Systems Peter Shirley, Kelvin Sung and William Brown, U. of Illinois Shape and Texture Generation by Neural Network Creation Algorithm John Lewis, New York Institute of Technology An Efficient Scanline Visibility Implementation Andrew Woo and Steve Chall, Alias Research Inc. 13:30 INVITED TALK Shading in Two Dimensions Lance Williams, Apple Computer 15:00 GEOMETRIC MODELING I Chairman: Brian Barsky, U. of California, Berkeley Sculpting with the "Ball & Mouse" Metephor Andre LeBlanc, Prem Kalra, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann and Daniel Thalmann, Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. Fast display of Octree Representations of 3D Objects Jiangong Zhao and Wayne A. Davis, U. of Alberta Complementary Integration of PHIGS and a Geometric Modeling Utility Paul Elletson and Mukul Saxena, GE-Corporate Research and Development A Frame Buffer Architecture for Parallel Line Drawing Xiaolin Wu, U. of Western Ontario Interaction Paradigms for Human-Computer Cooperation in Graphical-Object Modeling S. Kochhar, J. Marks and M. Friedell, Harvard U. Friday, June 7 ============== 8:30 INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES II Chairman: Alain Fournier, U. of British Columbia Perceiving Window Geometry: An Experimental Study William Cowan and Sandra Loop, U. of Waterloo Hardware Support for Multitasking Graphics William Cowan, Christopher Wein, Marceli Wein and Kellogg S. Booth, U. of Waterloo GroupSketch: A Multi-User Sketchpad for Geographically Distributed Small Groups Saul Greenberg and Ralph Bohnet, U. of Calgary Fitt's Law Studies of Directional Mouse Movement James Boritz, Kellogg S. Booth and William Cowan, U. of British Columbia 11:00 INVITED TALK New Paradigms for Computing in the Nineties Ronald Baecker, U. of Toronto 13:30 GEOMETRIC MODELING II Chairman: Mark Green, U. of Alberta Shape Control in Implicit Modeling Baining Guo, Cornell U. Controlled Blending of Procedural Implicit Surfaces Zoran Kacic-Alesic and Brian Wyvill, U. of Calgary Surfaces From Contours: The Correspondence and Branching Problems David Meyers, Shelly Skinner and Kenneth Sloan, U. of Washington 15:30 ANIMATION Chairman: Eugene Fiume, U. of Toronto Modeling Liquids and Solids Using Thermal Particles David Tonnesen, U. of Toronto Animation and Collisions between Complex Deformable Bodies Marie-Paule Gascuel, Anne Verroust and Claude Puech, Ecole Normale Superieure Establishing Correspondences by Topological Merging: A New Approach to 3-D Shape Transformation James Kent, Richard Parent and Wayne E. Carlson, Ohio State U. An Application of Motion Design and Control For Physically-Based Animation David Haumann, Jakub Wejchert, Kavi Arya, Bob Bacon, Al Khorasani, Alan Norton and Paula Sweeney, IBM T. J. Watson Research Ctr.