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Info-Graphics Digest	Sun Oct 19 03:00:32 PDT 1986

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Today's Topics:

 Request for info on new and exciting color monitors.
  GKS INFO for user TAMURA @ HLERUL5
 CALL FOR PAPERS, FOR DISTRIBUTION
 Local Bay Area NCGA Computer Video Animation Gala
 10/29 Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH meeting: Careers in Computer Graphics

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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 86 10:09 PDT
From: mbr@nprdc.arpa
Subject: Request for info on new and exciting color monitors.
Organization: Intelligent Systems Group
Postal-Address: C-015, La Jolla, CA  92093

We are thinking of purchasing a new color monitor for one of our systems.
It must accept analog rgb, sync on green at a resolution of 1280x1024,
60hz interlaced.

We currently have some 3 year old monitors which are ok, but are not
very bright, and the colors aren't too wonderful. So, the question
is, "Has anyone had any experience with monitors that meet the above
specs and 'blows your socks off?'*"

Thanks.

Mark Rosenstein

*'blows your socks off' means looks really, really good, doesn't have
much maintance problems, and is all and all a nice monitor.

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From: BRINKMAN%HLERUL5.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
  at 15:17:46 CDT
Date:     Mon, 13 Oct 86 21:15 N
Subject:  GKS INFO for user TAMURA @ HLERUL5
X-Original-To:  INFO-GRAPHICS@ADS.ARPA, BRINKMAN

From:   RULCRI::TAMURA       "Tamura" 13-OCT-1986 21:04
Subj:


Hi, Help!

 Here ( at Leyden University ) we are using a c-implementation of GKS.
 It is ONLY! capable of running under Lattice C v 2.14 ( not even under
Lattice 3.00 ! ).
 Lattice 2.14 is BAD. ( THIS IS MY PERSONAL OPINION,although I must say
that many people here share that opinion. )

 I've heard that somewhere it should be possible somehow to obtain a
C-source of a GKS implementation.

If ( that's true ) then
 please inform me - as soon as possible
 about the where-and how abouts.


We here would like to implement GKS for ECO-c88., a compiler much
better than Lattice, and easier to work with ( turbo-like 0

 Tamura.

 TAMURA @ HLERUL5 (BITNET/EARN)



 Sir_Mur





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Date: Tue 14 Oct 86 17:26:14
From: Roland Hjerppe <enea!liuida!rhj@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS, FOR DISTRIBUTION
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                      CALL FOR PAPERS

                   IEEE Computer Society 

             1987 Workshop on Visual Languages

           August 19 - 21, 1987, Linkoping, Sweden


Papers are invited on theory, methodology, and applications of visual
languages, including both languages that have a heavy visual component
and languages designed for operating on visual objects. Areas related
to visual languages, such as Man-Machine Interface, Office Automation,
Computer Aided Design, Computer Hardware, and Knowledge Based Systems
are also of interest if the visual language aspect is in focus.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Visual Data Structures              
Formal, Cognitive and Semantic Models for Visual Languages  
Shape Grammars
Visual Programming
Visual Support for Software Production
Visualization of Programs and their Behavior
User Interfaces Using Visual Objects
Representation and Acquisition of Visual Knowledge
Icon and Iconic System Design
Animation Research
Multimedia Systems


Important Dates

        Submission Deadline       February 20, 1987
        Acceptance Notification   April 20, 1987
        Final Copy Due            May 20, 1987
        Conference                August 19-21, 1987

Three copies of each paper - maximum length 5 000 words - should be
submitted to:

Erland Jungert 
FFV Elektronik AB
Agatan 122
S-582 22 Linkoping
Sweden

Conference Chairman: Prof. Robert Korfhage, Dept. of Information
Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Program Chairman: Erland Jungert, FFV Elektronik AB

Organizers: Roland Hjerppe, Christian Krysander, Dept. of Computer and
Information Science, University of Linkoping, S-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden
 
For details, contact the the Organizers at: 

UUCP:RHJ@LIUIDA
ARPA: RHJ%LIUIDA.UUCP@SEISMO
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 86 16:18:59 pdt
From: Eugene Miya N. <eugene@ames-pioneer.arpa>
Subject: Local Bay Area NCGA Computer Video Animation Gala


The Local National Computer Graphics Association is having their
yearly film show on Friday (you guessed it), Oct. 24, at 7 pm.
Admission is $2.50.  The Gala is being held at :

	Golden Gate University
	536 Mission St.
	Auditorium A and B
	San Francisco, CA
For information contact Inge Hutzch (415)-928-4329.  NCGA is asking
that you spread the word.

The Bay Area ACM SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater announcement will be posted
in a couple of weeks.  OUR SHOW is FREE.  It will be held in two
locations: The Exploratorium on Nov. 18 and Stanford U. in Terman Aud
on Nov. 20 (more later).

For further information on the latter, write me.

--eugene miya
  President
  Bay Area ACM SIGGRAPH

  eugene@ames-aurora

and shortly:

	siggraph@ames-pioneer.arpa

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From: eugene@AMES-NAS.ARPA (Eugene Miya)
Date: 15 Oct 1986 1635-PDT (Wednesday)
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        bboard@ads.ARPA, Colloquiums^.pa@xerox.ARPA, csmsgs@berkeley.ARPA,
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        msgs%ucsc@csnet-relay.ARPA, csustan!msgs@lll-crg.ARPA
Subject: 10/29 Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH meeting: Careers in Computer Graphics

Normally Steve Keith would post this, but he is briefly off the net.

Bay Area ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH)

October 29, 1986 meeting (Wednesday, note shift in day)

Topic:	Careers in
	Computer Graphics

For the October meeting, Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH has assembled a distinguished
panel of speakers who will discuss the various aspects of having a career
in computer graphics.  Whether you're preparing a career or planning a career
move, this meeting is sure to be of interest.  Topics to be discussed are:

EDUCATION/BACKGROUND:

In less than a decade, computer graphics has developed from a laboratory
curiousity to an effective medium found in nearly all realms of traditional
graphics and animation.  Dr. Franklin Crow will discuss how the scope and
number of possible careers has changed from a few research positions to a
broad range of possibilities.  He will talk about the various career paths
that are all available and also areas of specialization.  He will also cover
the education/background necessary for these positions.

THE JOB SEARCH:

John Baker will discuss the questions that job hunters need to ask themselves
before starting their job search, and how to start their search.  He will
compare the job opportunities found at a start-up company vs. an established
firm.  He plans to cover what computer graphics fields are hot in the Bay Area,
and what's not.

THE JOB!!!

John Lasseter will talk about his background as an animator and how it lead to
his job in computer graphics.  He will share his experiences and views on
being an animator and artist working in the computer graphics/entertainment
industry, and also show some example of his work.  Finally, he plans to
project how artists will fit into the industry of the future.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

John Baker has spent the last seven years recruiting engineers and executives
for the electronics industry in the Bay Area.  As owner of BRI-TIN, a personnel
placement agency, he has recruited engineers with software, hardware,
electrical, etc. backgrounds.  In computer graphics, he has recruited people
software, hardware/electrical backgrounds, technical writers/editors, and
graphics artists to work in the video game industry.  Mr. Baker is a director
of CAPC, California Association of Personnel Consultants (Santa Clara Valley
Chapter).

Dr. Franklin Crow received his PhD in Computer Science at the University of
Utah.  He was on the Computer Science faculty at the University of Texas at
Austin and Ohio State University.  He has acted as a consultant in the
computer graphics industry for such companies as Cranston-Csuri Productions,
Digital Productions, and the NYIT Computer Graphics Lab.  Currently, Dr. Crow
is on the research staff at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center).

John Lasseter joined the Pixar (formerly Lucasfilm) Computer Animation Group
in 1984, after five years as an animator at the Walt Disney Studios.  His
introduction to computer graphics came at Disney while designing and directing
the "Wild Things Test."  This production was the first to combine hand drawn
Disney character animation with computer generated backgrounds.  At Lucasfilm
and Pixar, he has designed and animated the stained glass computer generated
knight for "Young Sherlock Holmes," and also the characters in the "The
Adventures of Andres and Wally B."  John received his BFA in Film from the
California Institute of the Arts.

DATE: Wednesday, October 29, 1986
PLACE: Hewlett-Packard Auditorium, 3000 Hanover St. Palo Alto
	(Just off Page Mill Road)

Requests for information to:

	siggraph@ames-pioneer.arpa

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--eugene miya
  President
  Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH
  NASA Ames Research Center
  eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA
  Gee, what do you think I do, arrange talks all the time?

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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 86 14:08:02 PDT
From: ihnp4!floyd!phw5!phw@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU



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