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EGUK2000 Advance Programme
Celebrating 30 Years of Computer Graphics in the UK
Tuesday, 4th April 2000
| 12:00 |
EGUK Computer Graphics Pioneers' Lunch |
| 14:00 |
Opening Address |
Dag Lundervold, Managing Director, SGI UK |
| 14:10 |
Picture Imperfect - Running Away from Realism |
Professor Phil Willis, Bath |
| 15:00 |
People, Packages and Events |
Professor David Duce, Oxford Brookes |
| 15:50 |
Tea and Coffee |
| 16:10 |
VR in Europe, 10 Years On... but the Best is Yet to Come |
Professor Bob Stone, Virtual Presence |
| 17:00 |
Industrial Sessions |
| 18:00 |
EGUK EGUK AGM |
| 19:00 |
Conference Reception |
Wednesday, 5th April 2000
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Plenary Session 1 |
| 09:00 |
Simplifying 3D polygon clipping and hidden surface removal |
Dyke and Hewitt |
| 09:30 |
Lightning strikes: an installation |
Evans, Jones and Mallinder |
| 10:00 |
Emergent Modelling of Complex Systems in VRML |
Jankovic and Dumpleton |
| 10:30 |
Tea and Coffee |
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Parallel Session 1A: UCL Stream - Populating the Virtual Cities |
| 11:00 |
Real-time Visualisation of Densely Populated Urban Environments |
Tecchia and Chrysanthou |
| 11:25 |
Crowd Control: lightweight actors for populating virtual landscapes |
Smith, Pettifer and West |
| 11:50 |
SQUIDS: Interactive Deformation of Superquadrics for Model Matching in Virtual Environments |
Sinnott and Howard |
| 12:15 |
A simple model for visually realistic running waters |
Thon, Dischler and Ghazanfarpour |
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Parallel Session 1B: Research Student Forum - Rendering and Image Compression |
| 11:00 |
Approaches to Rendering Using Global Adaptive Importance Sampling |
McCabe |
| 11:25 |
Ray Tracing Advanced Optical Effects in Direct Volume Rendering |
Rodgman |
| 11:50 |
A Framework for Accurate Modelling and Rendering of Volumetric Scenes |
Winter |
| 12:15 |
Subjective and Objective Stereo Image Compression Analysis |
Karim and Turner |
| 12:45 |
Lunch |
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Parallel Session 2A: User Interface Design |
| 14:00 |
Towards the Manipulable User Interface |
Baber, Wing and Jankovic |
| 14:30 |
The mat as a non-conventional interface |
Mallinder and Jones |
| 15:00 |
Human Centred UI Design for Remote Interviews |
Kiddell, Chen, Oborne and Slater |
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Parallel Session 2B: Research Student Forum - Virtual Environments |
| 14:00 |
Virtual Environments for the Education of Patients |
Furnish and Day |
| 14:25 |
The Design of Usable Interfaces for Non-immersive Virtual Environments |
Sayers, Wilson, Myles and McNeill |
| 14:50 |
Nomad a toolkit for the Development of Collaborative Virtual Environments |
Wilson, Sayers, Myles and McNeill |
| 15:15 |
Virtual Reality as a Tool for Visualising Four Dimensional Objects |
Wellard and Chapman |
| 15:45 |
Tea and Coffee |
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Plenary Session 2 |
| 16:00 |
Real Time Implicit Bulging and Volume Preservation |
Linden, Reynolds and O Sullivan |
| 16:30 |
Proton Therapy Concepts Demonstrator |
McDerby, John, Brunt, Kacperek and Hewitt |
| 17:00 |
Local optimisation approach for finding largest inscribed objects in simple planar polygons |
Strnad |
| 17:30 |
Polynomial Evaluation using Affine Arithmetic for Curve Drawing |
Zhang and Martin |
| 19:00 |
Conference Dinner |
Thursday, 6th April 2000
| 09:00 |
Panel Session - The Future of Computer Graphics, topics include:
- Collaborative data navigation,
- Collaborative work environments,
- Communications research,
- Computer graphics in Industry,
- Computer graphics on the Web (SGV, VML),
- Geophysical applications,
- Graphics hardware at the high end,
- Graphics hardware for the home and professional desktop,
- High-Performance Visualization,
- Interactive visual electronic documents,
- The Visual ASP Concept,
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Mr. Chris Henn, SGI;
Prof. Bob Hopgood, RAL;
Prof. Mikael Jern, AVS;
Mr. Chris Thornborrow, PixelFusion;
Dr. Doug Traill, BT Advanced Communications Research;
Dr. Rob Treloar, Unilever;
Dr. Howard Watkins, Schlumberger GeoQuest. |
| 11:10 |
Tea and Coffee |
| 11:30 |
Keynote Speech: Participatory Fiction: Authors, Audiences, and Computers |
Dr Andrew Glassner, Microsoft Research |
| 12:30 |
Award of Ken Brodlie Prize for Best Paper
Conference Close |
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