Conference Proceedings

Proceedings of Graphics Interface '93

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 19-21 May 1993

© 1993. Published by Canadian Information Processing Society. ISBN 0-9695338-2-9.

Overview

The nineteenth Graphics Interface conference featured invited speakers Michael Deering from Sun to talk on his work on Virtual Reality, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz from Calgary talking on Visualization of plants and Steve Feiner from Columbia talking on the application of AI to graphics. In addition, this year the conference introduced a Poster Session and six poster abstracts are included in the Proceedings.

Chairs

  • Tom Calvert

Speakers

Acceptance Rate

Total Accepted35

Proceedings (263 pages total)

    Proceedings of Graphics Interface '93: Front Matter
Animation I / Animation I
    Constructing physics-based facial models of individuals
    Straight line walking animation based on kinematic generalization that preserves the original characteristics
    Interactive animation of personalized human locomotion
Surface Modelling / Modélisation de la surface
    Orientation interpolation in quaternion space using spherical biarcs
    Low degree approximation of surfaces for revolved objects
    Projective reparameterizations of rational Bézier simplices
Invited Paper / Présentateur invité
    Knowledge based design of 3D graphics and virtual worlds
Rendering / Rendu
    A ray tracing accelerator based on a hierarchy of 1D sorted lists
    Random-edge discrepancy of supersampling patterns
    Ray tracing with adaptive supersampling in object space
    An adaptive discretization method for progressive radiosity
User Interface / Interface avec I'usager
    Comparing fisheye and full-zoom techniques for navigation of hierarchically clustered networks
    Investigating the effectiveness of direct manipulation of 3D B-spline curves using the shape-matching paradigm
    Harnessing preattentive processes for multivariate data visualization
    Automated presentation planning of animation using task decomposition with heuristic reasoning
Invited Paper / Présentateur invité
    Modelling and visualization of biological structures
Systems / Systèmes
    Supporting numerical computations in interactive contexts
    A window architecture providing predictable temporal performance
    A simple, flexible, parallel graphics architecture
Poster Session / Session d'affiches
    Image representation using finite state automata
    Relative effectiveness of virtual environment desensitization and imaginal desensitization in the treatment of acrophobia
    Sarah: An information exploration and visualization interface for direct manipulation of databases
    ls-x: An information visualization tool for attributes presentation of objects
    An adaptable user interface for tolerating naive users' error behavior: A prototype design and an empirical study
Algorithms / Algorithmes
    Conservative visibility preprocessing for efficient walkthroughs of 3D scenes
    A fractal model of mountains and rivers
    Constructing good partitioning trees
Animation II / Animation II
    Multi-resolution surface approximation for animation
    Interactive control of interpolations for animation and modeling
    The use of relations for motion control in an environment with multiple moving objects
Invited Paper / Présentateur invité
    Making virtual reality more real: Experience with the virtual portal
Illumination / Illumination
    Geometric simplification for indirect illumination calculations
    Computing illumination from area light sources by approximate contour integration
    Spatially nonuniform scaling functions for high contrast images
    Common illumination between real and computer generated scenes