samackay@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Stephen MacKay) (06/25/91)
Another fine Graphics Interface Conference has come and gone. For those who missed it, here is the Table of Contents for the Proceedings of Graphics Interface '91, held 3-7 June, 1991 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. If you would like to order a copy, send Canadian requests to CIPS and all others to Morgan Kaufmann at the following addresses: Canadian Information Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Processing Society Order Fulfillment Center 430 King St. W., Suite 205 P.O. Box 50490 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Palo Alto, CA 94303 M5V 1L5 USA Tel: (416) 593-4040 (415) 965-4081 FAX: (416) 593-5184 (415) 578-0672 Price: Cdn$35.00 - Canada US$40.00 - USA US$44.00 - all other countries ISSN number: 0713-5424 ISBN number: 0-9695338-0-2 If you require any additional information about the proceedings or the conference please feel free to contact me. Graphics Interface '92 will be held in Vancouver, B.C., 11-15 May 1992; draft papers are due 31 October 1991. ...Stephen MacKay Proceedings Editor, GI '91 mackay@iit.nrc.ca (613) 993-6553 T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S PARAMETRIC STOCHASTIC MODELING Chairman: Brian Wyvill, University of Calgary Parametrizing Singularly to Enclose Data Points by a Smooth Parametric Surface J. Peters, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York Algorithms for B-patches H.-P. Seidel, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Drawing Parametric Curves Using Chebyshev Polynomials J. Buchanan and A. Fournier, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia A Multiple-Scale Stochastic Modelling Primitive J. Stam and E. Fiume, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario INVITED PAPER Gamut Mapping Computer Generated Imagery M.C. Stone, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, California, and W.E. Wallace, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario SHADING AND TEXTURE Chairman: Marceli Wein, National Research Council of Canada A Piecewise Polynomial Approach to Shading Using Spectral Distributions M.G. Raso and A. Fournier, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario A Spectral Database for Realistic Image Synthesis G.W. Meyer and R.E. Hale, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon The Filtering of 3d Textures J. Buchanan, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES I Chairman: Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, University of Regina Differential Manipulation M. Gleicher and A. Witkin, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania LEFTY: A Two-view Editor for Technical Pictures D. Dobkin, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, and E. Koutsofios, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey Design Issues for Line-Driven Text Editing/Annotation Systems G. Hardock, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Graphical Interaction Techniques in Constraint-Based Geometric Modeling S. Sistare, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts RAY TRACING Chairman: Kellogg S. Booth, University of British Columbia Automatic Termination Criteria for Ray Tracing Hierarchies K.R. Subramanian and D.S. Fussell, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Spatio-Temporal Coherence in Ray Tracing J. Chapman, T.W. Calvert, and J. Dill, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia Exploiting Shadow Coherence in Ray Tracing A. Pearce, Alias Research Inc., Toronto, Ontario, and D. Jevans, Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, California RENDERING Chairman: David Forsey, University of British Columbia A Ray Tracing Framework for Global Illumination Systems P. Shirley, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, and K. Sung and W. Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Shape and Texture Generation by Neural Network Creation Paradigm J.P. Lewis, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, New York An Efficient Scanline Visibility Implementation A. Woo and S. Chall, Alias Research Inc., Toronto, Ontario INVITED PAPER Shading in Two Dimensions L. Williams, Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, California GEOMETRIC MODELING I Chairman: Brian Barsky, University of California at Berkeley Sculpting with the "Ball and Mouse" Metaphor A. LeBlanc, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, P. Kalra and N. Magnenat Thalmann, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, and D. Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland Fast Display of Octree Representations of 3D Objects J. Zhao and W.A. Davis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Complementary Integration of PHIGS and a Geometric Modeling Utility P.A. Elletson and M. Saxena, GE - Corporate Research and Development, Schenectady, New York A Frame Buffer Architecture for Parallel Vector Generation X. Wu, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario Interaction Paradigms for Human-Computer Cooperation in Graphical-Object Modeling S. Kochhar, J. Marks, and M. Friedell, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES II Chairman: Alain Fournier, University of British Columbia Perceiving Window Geometry: An Experimental Study W. Cowan and S. Loop, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Hardware Support for Multitasking Graphics W. Cowan and C. Wein, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, M. Wein, National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, and K.S. Booth, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia GroupSketch: A multi-user sketchpad for geographically-distributed small groups S. Greenberg, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, and R. Bohnet, MPR TelTech Ltd., Burnaby, British Columbia Fitt's Law Studies of Directional Mouse Movement J. Boritz, K.S. Booth, and W.B. Cowan, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario INVITED PAPER New Paradigms for Computing in the Nineties R. Baecker, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario GEOMETRIC MODELING II Chairman: Mark Green, University of Alberta Shape Control in Implicit Modeling B. Guo, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Controlled Blending of Procedural Implicit Surfaces Z. Kacic-Alesic and B. Wyvill, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta Surfaces From Contours: The Correspondence and Branching Problems D. Meyers and S. Skinner, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, and K. Sloan, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama ANIMATION Chairman: Eugene Fiume, University of Toronto Modeling Liquids and Solids using Thermal Particles D. Tonnesen, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Animation and Collisions between Complex Deformable Bodies M.-P. Gascuel and A. Verroust, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, and C. Puech, Stanford University/Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Stanford, California Establishing Correspondences by Topological Merging: A New Approach to 3-D Shape Transformation J.R. Kent, R.E. Parent, and W.E. Carlson, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio An Application of Motion Design and Control For Physically-Based Animation D. Haumann, J. Wejchert, K. Arya, B. Bacon, A. Khorasani, A. Norton, and P. Sweeney, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York