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Today's Topics:

 Bay Area SIGGRAPH
  Public Domain Ray-Tracer
 3D Protein modelling packages/programs
 Administrivia: Change in hostname for Info-Graphics

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 86 12:51:19 PDT
From: stephan@wilbur.ARPA (Stephan Keith)
Subject: Bay Area SIGGRAPH


               San Francisco Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH Announcement

     - TITLE: A Recent History of Computer Animation
            From a Personal Perspective

     - WHO: Julian E. Gomez, Ph.D.

       _A_B_S_T_R_A_C_T:

       Computer animation has garnered much attention over the last few  years.
       Early computer animation was oriented towards assisting the animator and
       generally worked in multiple levels of two  dimensional  images.   Three
       dimensional  computer animation has always been fascinating, though, and
       recently computers have become inexpensive and powerful enough  to  make
       more  complex animation common place.  Nowadays it is not unusual to see
       a whimsical story telling animation such as "Snoot and Muttly" next to a
       scientific educational piece such as "Halley Flyby / Tempel 2 Rendezvous
       with Ion Drive.

       This talk will cover the speaker's  experiences  in  building  animation
       systems and doing animation at the JPL Computer Graphics Laboratory, The
       Ohio State University CGRG, and Cranston/Csuri  Productions.   Animation
       from  all  of  these  laboratories  will  be  shown  and  the techniques
       explained.


       _B_I_O_G_R_A_P_H_Y:

       Julian E. Gomez is a scientist at the Research  Institute  for  Advanced
       Computer  Science  (RIACS),  located  at  the NASA Ames Research Center.
       Prior to that he was at Cranston/Csuri Productions, Inc., after  a  stay
       at  the  Ohio  State  University  Computer  Graphics Research Group.  He
       started his graphics activity many years ago at the CalTech/JPL Computer
       Graphics   Laboratory.   He  received  an  AB  from  the  University  of
       California, Berkeley, and a  Ph.D.  from  Ohio  State  University.   His
       research  interests  are  computer  animation,  natural  phenomena,  and
       chaotic attractors.  He is a member of the IEEE  Computer  Society,  ACM
       and SIGGRAPH.

     -> WHEN: 8:00 pm, Tuesday, 24 June 1986.

     -> WHERE: The Exploratorium, Palace of Fine Arts
               San Francisco


     -> ADMINISTRATION: Want to get involved? Help in  any  capacity?  Want  to
     lecture  about a topic in Computer Graphics?  Please contact Dan Clarke at
     408/496-7302.

     -> ELECTRONIC THEATRE: The San Francisco Bay Area SIGGRAPH  is  sponsoring
     an  Electronic  Theatre  composed  of  work  submitted  by  Local Computer
     Artists.  You are invited to consider submitting work.  Format for artwork
     submitted  is  to be in one of the following forms only: 3/4" Video, Beta,
     VHS, 16 mm film, 35mm Slides.  Deadline for submissions is  mid-September.
     Show  date  is late-November.  For more information, please contact Helena
     as follows:

             Helena Anderson         415/849-9583
             Program Chair
             Bay Area SIGGRAPH
             P.O. BOX 3553
             Santa Clara, CA  95055


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Date:     Mon, 2 Jun 86 18:34:12 EDT
From: Mike Muuss <mike@brl.ARPA>
Subject:  Public Domain Ray-Tracer

BRL's solid modeling system, which includes a solid modeling
editor and a ray-tracing package, are available to interested
parties at no cost.

In addition, a variety of sophisticated analysis codes built
on this capability are available for qualified defense contractors.

The work is entirely in "C", and is highly portable.  The
ray-tracer has run on numerous serial machines, plus
a pure-parallel MIMD machine (Denelcor HEP) and
a parallel-vector MIMD machine (Alliant FX/8).

A paper ("Understanding the Preparation and Analysis of Solid
Models") is being published this summer which describes the system,
and discloses the fundamental mathematics and algorithms needed
to build a solid modeling system.

If you are interested in using RT (the ray-tracer) merely as a
benchmark, I have a fully-packaged benchmark test available now.
If you are interested in using the whole package as a CAD system,
things are not so well off, and what we currently have is best
though of as a "pre-release".  It is, however, available.
If you are interested, please write for more information.

Best,
 -Mike Muuss

(301)-278-6678
  AV  283-6678
  FTS 939-6678

ArpaNet:  <Mike @ BRL.ARPA>
UUCP:     decvax!brl-bmd!mike
Postal:
  Mike Muuss
  Leader, Advanced Computer Systems Team
  Computer Science and Mathematics Branch
  Systems Engineering and Concepts Analysis Division
  U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
  Attn: SLCBR-SECAD (Muuss)
  APG, MD  21005-5066

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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 86 12:47:37 EST
From: munnari!goanna.oz!gl@seismo.CSS.GOV (Geoff Leach)
Subject: 3D Protein modelling packages/programs




I'm looking for info on 3D DNA/protein modelling packages/programs for 
a Sun-2/160. Basically what are their names, who do I get them from and
how much do they cost. Any pointers to recent literature on such packages
would also be appreciated.


Thanks in advance.

Geoff Leach			UUCP   seismo!munnari!goanna.oz!gl	
Department of Computing		ARPA   munnari!goanna.oz!gl@SEISMO.ARPA	
Royal Melbourne Institute       ACS    gl@goanna	
	 of Technology		VOICE  (03) 660 2761 
GPO Box 2476V			
Melbourne 3001			
Australia.		 	

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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 86 23:00:00 pdt
From: Info-Graphics-Request@ADS.ARPA (Andy Cromarty)
Subject: Administrivia: Change in hostname for Info-Graphics


Commencing with this issue of Info-Graphics, the preferred addresses
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	Info-Graphics@ADS.arpa		-- articles for redistribution
	Info-Graphics-Request@ADS.arpa	-- requests, help, info, etc.


Our machine name is changing from AIDS-UNIX to ADS to catch up with
our corporate name change of last year.  These changes take a while 
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					Info-Graphics-Request@ADS.ARPA


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