tom@alias.UUCP (Tom Burns) (11/05/89)
There will be a meeting of the local Toronto Siggraph group Nov 21. What: Toronto Siggraph Meeting When: 8 pm, Tues Nov 21, '89 Where: Rm 2103, Sanford Fleming Building, U of T 10 King's College rd (north of College St, west of McCaul St) (we won't be able to fit in this room so come a little early and there will be a map on the door of 2103). All interested are urged to attend, as this meeting will include: (1) the voting which was delayed from last month, here are the nominees: John Faichney - President (The Arts Television Centre) Eugene Fiume - Vice President (Faculty, CSRI) Andrew Woo - Treasurer (SAS Institute) Tom Burns - Secretary (Your humble correspondent) and (2) a presentation on "Dynamics in Animation" with examples of physically-based constraints in animation systems, and a videotape with neat things like using collision detection to trigger sound effects. Possible discussions: An interesting idea was presented by Marilyn Mantei (CSRI Faculty, I believe) about integrating SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH. Perhaps two local groups, incorporated separately but sharing meeting facilities, or two executive councils for business but an undifferentiated membership, or ??? I may have some 8mm video of Nicograph '89 (the Japanese Siggraph) ready by then to show as I'm travelling to Tokyo on the 5th. Otherwise I'll save it for a future meeting. Upcoming events include a visit to a major Toronto post-production house (reservations required). If you are unable to make it, and wish to be placed on the mailing list, please e-mail me your name & address, and I will send out a summary of the meeting. If you have responded to an earlier announcement and have not received a mailed summary of last month's meeting, try again. (I am new at managing mailing lists). See you, -- Tom Burns, aka "The Video Guy" at: | "Ebben ne'andro lontana" - La Wally Alias Research Inc. (416) 362-9181 | UUCP: tom%alias@csri.toronto.edu |