4.7 General Library Material

1. Conferences:
   1. Symposium on Computational Geometry (SCG): This is the leading Computational Geometry conference. It is quite theoretical.

   2. Symposium on the Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), and
   3. Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC): These are the leading theoretical computer science conferences. They publish a few geometry papers.

   4. SIGGRAPH: The major conference in graphics is the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH). The proceedings from the past several years' conferences, and the notes from short courses given at the conference are in the library. I have been buying the course notes on the library's behalf for several years. The course notes (30 volumes this year) are EXCELLENT. They range from basic to state-of-the-art, and contain material not in the texts and not even in the journals sometimes. Here is the Infotrax entry.

      BY : Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (16th : 1989 : Boston, Mass.) SIGGRAPH. IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee-Computer Graphics.
      TITLE : ACM SIGGRAPH '89 course notes : 16th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Boston, Massachusetts 31 July-4 August 1989
      TITLE-NOTE : sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics in cooperation with the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Graphics.
      PUBLISHED : (New York? : Association for Computing Machinery, 1989)
      SUBJECT : Computer graphics - Congresses. Interactive computer systems - Congresses.
      CALL NO : T 385 S53x 1989 / HOLDINGS: v. 1-30
      CALL NO : SOFTWARE T 385 S53x 1989
      CALL NO : GRAPHIC :VIDEO T 385 S53x 1989
      OCLC NO : 20256549
      MATERIAL : conference
      DESCRIPTION : 30 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. + 1 videotape + 3 computer disks
      NOTES : Cover title. System requirements for computer disks: Macintosh with 256 color capabilities; 1 MB; color monitor.
      

      Includes five monographs: Lindenmayer systems, fractals, and plants by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, James Hanan; An introduction to ray tracing edited by Andrew S. Glassner; The science of fractal images edited by Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Dietmar Saupe; Curves and surfaces for computer aided geometric design by Gerald Farin; PostScript language reference manual by Adobe Systems, Inc. - 20. Solid modeling: architectures, mathematics, and algorithms - 21. Fractals: analysis and modeling - 22. State of the art in facial animation - 23. Math for SIGGRAPH - 24. Stereographics - 25. The computer graphics interface - the next international graphics standard - 26. X3D-PEX (PEX): three-dimensional graphics in a distributed window system - 27. The PostScript page description language - 28. State of the art in data visualization - 29. Implementing and interacting with real-time microworlds -30. Topics in physically-based modeling. Includes bibliographical references. CONTENTS: 1. Perceptual discrepancies in color production technology - 2. Artists' and designers' introduction to computer graphics - 3. Desktop computer animation - 4. 3-D character animation by computer - 5. Fundamentals and overview of computer graphics - 6. Applications programming for the X window system - 7. Experiential computer art - 8. Emerging user-interface media: potentials and challenges - 9. Introduction to computer animation -10. Introduction to practical issues in color reproduction and selection - 11. Introduction to window management - 12. An Introduction to ray tracing - 13. Two and three dimensional visualization workshop - 14. Contemporary approaches to geometry for computer graphics & computer-aided design - 15. Usability testing and design guidelines for graphical user interfaces - 16. Parallel processing and advanced architectures in computer graphics - 17. Introduction to visual programming environments - 18. Radiosity - 19. Curve and surface design: from geometry to applications

2. Here are some journals with articles relevant to geometry or graphics. They can provide ideas for projects. Not all are in the RPI library.
   • IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
   • ACM Transactions on Graphics
   • Anderson Report
   • Communications of the ACM
   • Computer Aided Design
   • Computer Aided Geometric Design
   • Computer Graphics World
   • Computer Graphics and Art
   • Computers & Graphics
   • Discrete & Computational Geometry
   • IEEE Computer
   • Int. J. on Computational Geometry and Applications
   • J. Parallel & Distributed Computing
   • Visual Computer

3. SIGGRAPH Video Review: (OK, so this is viewing not reading material.) SIGGRAPH also publishes videotapes showing the best in computer graphics and animation. I'll show a few in class. They are physically, but not logically in the reserve room in the library basement. They are not cataloged in Infotrax (last time I checked). However, if you know they exist, you can request them, and take them home for 2 weeks even though they are marked 'reserve'.