Conference Themes



Distributed Graphics:

The rise of internet computing has changed the way we do graphics. Increasingly applications are distributed, involving the transfer of graphics data over the World Wide Web. VRML has grown from being a simple means of transferring 3D scenes across the Web, into a powerful tool for describing 3D worlds with objects that can have behaviours. What will be the next step? One development already emerging is for these worlds to be inhabited by multiple people, represented in the scenes as avatars.

Graphics for Simulation:

Graphics has always been a powerful aid in simulation - flight simulators being a very early application of high performance graphics. Today the application of graphics to simulation have spread out widely into other areas of transport simulation, and also to medicine, where there is the promise of significant advances.

Advanced Interfaces:

Two major developments in computing mean that 3D interfaces are increasingly important. One is the rise of synthetic environments - recreations of reality as virtual worlds: we need intuitive techniques for moving and working in these synthetic worlds. The other is the growth of information - distributed around the Internet: we need good metaphors to allow us to traverse these large abstract spaces.
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