Meeting Agenda

November 21st, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Michael McCool

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Anne Jiwen Huo
Coffee hour this week:: ?
Coffee hour next week:: ?

3. Next meeting

Date:: Wednesday, November 28th, 2001
Location:: DC 1304
Time:: 1:30 p.m.
Chair:: Joanne McKinley
Technical presentation:: Stephen Mann

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

Kevin Moule (December 5th)
Wayne Olive (December 12th)
Guillaume Poirier (December 19th)

Tech Presenters:

Joanne McKinley (December 5th)
Michael McCool (December 12th)
Kevin Moule (December 19th)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Tim MacPherson

Title: Reflection from Layered Surfaces due to Subsurface Scattering

Abstract: I will present a paper from Siggraph '93 wherein an analytical method for simulating reflection from layered surfaces (such as human skin and plant leaves) is presented, and then discuss the Monte Carlo method of implementation the paper also presents.

6. General Discussion Items

CS 488 T-shirts for sale. A bargain at half the price!

7. Action List

The making of up-to-date demos - Demo group
UT visit - Kevin
- November 24th Saturday
- Volunteers?

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Graphics Interface 2002

paper submission deadline: November 18, 2001
General URL: www.graphicsinterface.org
Conference URL: www.cs.yorku.ca/~gi2002
Venue: May 27-29, 2002, University of Calgary
Contact: Michael McCool

SIGGRAPH 2002

Paper submission deadline: 9 January 2002
Art gallery deadline: 6 February 2002
Computer Animation Festival: 6 March 2002
Sketches: 13 March 2002
General URL: www.siggraph.org
Conference URL: www.siggraph.org/s2002
Venue: 21-26 July 2002, San Antonio, TX

CFP: COMPUTER GRAPHICS IN ART HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY

Submissions due: January 15, 2002
Acceptance notices: April 20, 2002
Final Revisions due: June 1, 2002

Third International Conference -- Virtual Reality and its Application in Industry

in cooperation with EUROGRAPHICS
Call for papers: ???
April 10-12, 2002, Hangzhou, China
http://www.hziee.edu.cn/VRAI2002

Graphics Hardware 2002

Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2002 (after SIGGRAPH rejections...)
General URL: www.graphicshardware.org
Venue: Saarbruecken, Germany (hosted by the MPII), right before Eurographics, which will be held in the same place (a two-for-one special).

Eighth Europgraphics Workshop on Virtual Environments (EGVE) 2002

May 30-31, 2002. Bacerlona, Spain
Paper submission deadline: December 16, 2001
General URL: http://www.lsi.upc.es/ve2002

Curves and Surfaces

June 27-July 3, 2002. Saint-Malo, France
Abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2002
General URL: http://www-lmc.imag.fr/saint-malo/