woolstar@nntp-server.caltech.edu (John D. Woolverton) (05/25/91)
Well I've been hoping for something to happen with comp.graphics for many years now, so I guess it's high time to do something. Since there has been a reasonable period of discussion, that is now dwindling off in news.groups I'm making the official call. Send your votes, yes or no, to woolstar@cobalt.caltech.edu for comp.graphics.interesting moderated (by me) I felt comp.graphics.interesting was an appropriate name, because it leaves the discussion open to almost anything in computer graphics. Visualization, ray tracing, animation, hardware, interfaces, books, standards, algorithms, conferences, and many more things could be discussed here. I'm all for that. I feel it should be moderated, because there is an increasing number of people using news that aren't as careful about posting, and the zealous nuts that used to flame poor novice users out of existence are just spread too thin. (maybe this is good) Even when the posting is appropriate, sometimes the user doesn't use good form--like re-posting the entire article in the new article, going off on a new subject without changing the header, etc. Sometimes the property of the net amplifies a problem, like one hundred ways to calculate the normal of a polygon, including an encore. The tradeoff is a delay, but I'll address that in my platform :-) My qualifications, I am a long time news reader (I still remember net.humor). I have been involved in graphics for several years, and follow the field avidly (through SIGGraph and other means). I have quite a knowledge in some areas--3D object shading and manipulation, ray-tracing, rasterization, animation--and what I don't know about, I'm interesting in learning and exploring further. I am trying to make my living doing computer graphics (animation) as well as working on new research in the field. I stay up late at night, and drink lots of Mt. Dew. My platform (as moderator, I promise...) NUMBER 1 Fast responses, hopefully under a day. I only expect problems with that around SIGGRAPH time each summer. NUMBER 2 Minimal mucking with articles. I only ask for clear subject headers, not to much reposting of previous articles, and a little care for formatting. > it annoys me a lot when some strange news posting software > out there breaks up all the included lines from a > previous article and posts them in such a strange fashion. > > I have never figured out the cause of this. NUMBER 3 Almost any computer graphics topic covered. I will also consider questions or requests that may be more appropriate somewhere else and direct all follow ups in that direction, (example comp.sys.sgi, comp.graphics.visualization, or comp.windows.x, etc.) NUMBER 4 Any article I turn down for posting, I will make a reasonable effort to explain my reason, and will try to keep an open mind. Anyone trying to blackmail me into posting something (someone else mentioned sending 100 copies per day), will be met by judicious use of a kill file. Past that, if my sysadmin wants to take it up with there sysadmin, so be it. NUMBER 5 Continuing Frequently asked questions, hopefully with the help of Jef. The only change I'd like to make is to break it up into a few different parts, as the current one is very long. Then I would just rotate the parts through every couple of days so that there would be the same coverage as now. NUMBER 6 Screening of requests for such things as Speed Racer GIFFs, etc. I want this group to be about Computer Graphics, not images, hw answers or other questions. Recent articles I'd be likely to quash: TestPattern image Programming a Mah-Jongg type game Dr. Who GIF files Double Buffering on a ATI VGA Wonder ----- That's it. Questions, votes, flames and money to woolstar@cobalt.caltech.edu John D. Woolverton, Engineer Video Bits Please put the vote YES or NO in the subject.
adrianho@barkley.berkeley.edu (Adrian J Ho) (05/25/91)
In article <1991May24.221020.6321@nntp-server.caltech.edu> woolstar@nntp-server.caltech.edu (John D. Woolverton) writes: > Well I've been hoping for something to happen with comp.graphics >for many years now, so I guess it's high time to do something. Since >there has been a reasonable period of discussion, that is now dwindling >off in news.groups I'm making the official call. Wait a sec, is this related to the comp.graphics.research discussion? If so: 1) It's started up again. No kidding. Really. 2) The discussion period ends Jun 16 (as I stated in my CFD). 3) Given that the name you chose was never agreed on in the discussion, I believe you're supposed to issue a new Call For Discussion. (Although I'd be more than happy to discuss a change from comp.graphics.research -- more in a later article.) 4) A Call For Votes should also go to news.announce.newgroups. Folks, some of you may be pissed at me for being such a stickler for details, but I quote the "Guidelines for Usenet Group Creation": Any group creation request which follows these guidelines to a successful result should be honored, and any request which fails to follow these procedures or to obtain a successful result from doing so should be dropped, except under extraordinary circumstances. I believe Dave Lawrence (news.announce.newgroups moderator) or someone else has the authority to veto the creation of any newsgroup that does not go through the proper formal procedure. Let's not turn this promising start into a fiasco. If any of you are interested in the Guidelines I mentioned above, you can get it via anonymous FTP: barkley.berkeley.edu:/misc/u-startgroup.txt [128.32.142.237] Again, I appeal to everyone concerned to join in the discussion. The informal vote taken by Jamie Gulden indicated that there are quite a few of you who are against moderation -- let's hear your voices now! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Ho, EECS (pronounced "eeks!") Dept. Phone: (415) 642-5563 UC Berkeley adrianho@barkley.berkeley.edu
turk@Apple.COM (Ken "Turk" Turkowski) (05/31/91)
I don't think that .interesting is a good adjective. Comp.graphics.research is more descriptive. -- Ken Turkowski @ Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA Internet: turk@apple.com Applelink: TURK UUCP: sun!apple!turk