[comp.graphics] Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH monthly mtg 9/26

julian@riacs.edu (Julian E. Gomez) (09/14/89)

From Softies to Knots:  The Graphicsland Animation System

Brian Wyvill
The University of Calgary

The Exploratorium
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
September 26, 8PM


Over the last 5 years the Graphicsland Animation system has been
constructed as a research testbed for ideas in modelling, motion
control and rendering.    Methods for modelling and animating implicit
surfaces have been developed as well as work on combining such models
with skeletons driven from dynamic simulations.   Ray tracing
algorithms for multi-processor environments have been developed along
with fast methods for finding ray - surface intersections.  Work on
facial animation driven from synthesised speech along with recent
results using generalised cylinders to produce models of knots and
woven cloth will be presented.  Various animation sequences have been
made and the talk will be illustrated with slides and video including a
preview of the forthcoming, yet to be finished movie: "Lunch at First
Sight".

Brian Wyvill is a professor of computer science at the University of
Calgary and is currently on leave at Xerox PARC.
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	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez   julian@riacs.edu