Last update:
Tue Jun 21 13:16:47 MDT 2011
Richard Fichera Low-End Workstations Force Market
Barriers down . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35, 37, 42
Mark Trueblood Highlighting Halley's . . . . . . . . . 44--46, 48
Arielle Emmett Do Managers Believe What They See? . . . 50--52, 54, 57
Peter Keep Segments: a Natural Approach to Graphics 60--62, 64
Anonymous CDI's Industrial Design Goes from Art to
Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Peter Johnston From Computer to Page . . . . . . . . . 28
Tom McMillan Desktop Color Publishing . . . . . . . . 36
Peter Sorensen Hair-Raising Graphics . . . . . . . . . 44
Barbara Robertson The Tangled Web of HDTV . . . . . . . . 52
Audrey Vasilopoulos Cartoon Animation . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Alliant Sets Standards with
Supercomputers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Rita Shoor Targeting Treatment . . . . . . . . . . 38
Renee LeWinter and
Cynthia Baron Artistic Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Jack Sculley and
Inge Hutzel Playing Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Audrey Vasilopoulos Graphics on Trial . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous IBM's New Unix Line . . . . . . . . . . 25
Gregory MacNicol 2D Animation: Alive and Well . . . . . . 40
Barbara Robertson The Changing Face of AEC Presentations 52
Michael L. Sena Do-it-Yourself Mapping . . . . . . . . . 62
Terry T. Wohlers Practical Prototypes . . . . . . . . . . 73
Kathryn Winiarski X Terminal Displays . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Apple Unveils its ``Wicked Fast''
Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Stephen Porter FEA Faces a Changing Role . . . . . . . 38
Greg Freiherr PACS: A Premature Paradise . . . . . . . 52
Debra Rosenberg What's Ahead for PC CAD? . . . . . . . . 63
Audrey Vasilopoulos Shopping by Computer . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Digital Enhances its DECstation Family 25
Michael Sena Computer-Aided Dispatching . . . . . . . 34
Tom McMillan Interactive Video Bolsters Health Care
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Peter Sorensen The Fruits of Fractals . . . . . . . . . 54
Gary Pfitzer Streamlining PCB Design . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous Amiga 3000, AmigaVision Heat Up
Multimedia Market . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Barbara Robertson Sculpting the Scenery . . . . . . . . . 48
Lisa Stapleton Visualizing Math . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--60, 63--64
Phillip Robinson Stereo 3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Debra Rosenberg and
Audrey Vasilopoulos Smart Prototypes . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Anonymous HP/Apollo Team Rolls Out its First
Workstation Line . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Rebecca Hansen Breaking the Color Barrier . . . . . . . 38
Phillip Robinson The Emergence of Smart CAD Software . . 55
Gregory MacNicol Film Recorders: The Marketplace Myths 62
Rodney Stock The Super Chip . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Autodesk Premieres 3D
Animation/Photo-Realism . . . . . . . . 31
Richard Mark Friedhoff and
Thomas Kiely The Eye of the Beholder . . . . . . . . 46
Stephen Porter Made for the Stage . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Renee LeWinter and
Cynthia Baron Bold Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Rodney Stock and
Barbara Robertson The Next Wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Stephen Porter and
Richard Fichera Super Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Gregory MacNicol Film Recorders at the High End . . . . . 102
Anonymous And Now, MacVisualization . . . . . . . 141
Anonymous Tektronix Adds Imaging to its XD88
Repertoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Gregory MacNicol Wild and Woolly Theme Park Rides . . . . 34
Greg Freiherr Getting Small with Image Processing . . 44
Peter Sorensen From the Computer Screen to the Silver
Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Rick Cook Image Compression Squeezes to the Fore 70
Anonymous Stardent Enters the Desktop
Supercomputer Market . . . . . . . . . . 25
Laura Lang and
Vicki Speed A New Tool for GIS . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Barbara Robertson Bridging the Photo-Retouching Gap . . . 52
Tom McMillan Multimedia and Education . . . . . . . . 68
Gary Pfitzer Designing Made Easy . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Cadam Launches its PC-based 3D Package 19
Rick Cook Designing Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . 42
Greg Freiherr CAD on the High Frontier . . . . . . . . 54
Ken Anderson Workstation Roundup . . . . . . . . . . 69
Peter Sorensen Animation Across the Airwaves . . . . . 80
Barbara Robertson Photo-Retouching Technology: Friend or
Foe? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Silicon Graphics Straddles PC\slash
Workstation Market . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Laura Lang Designer Interiors . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Diana Phillips Mahoney The Art of Medicine . . . . . . . . . . 47
Rita Shoor Pouring Plastic . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Audrey Vasilopoulos Atlanta Gets the Gold . . . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous A Mac Animation Option . . . . . . . . . 99
Anonymous Movable Mannequins . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Renee LeWinter and
Cynthia Baron Output Options for Artists . . . . . . . 34
Greg Freiherr and
Gary Pfitzer Visualization's New Breed . . . . . . . 44
Bob Cramblitt A Love/Hate Relationship . . . . . . . . 55
Jacqueline Emigh Managing Engineering Data . . . . . . . 67
Audrey Vasilopoulos Mix-and-Match Animation . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous The Amiga 3000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Anonymous Sony Launches Unix Laptop . . . . . . . 21
Stephen Porter Winds of Change . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Arielle Emmett In Search of the Miracle Hologram . . . 44
Gregory MacNicol Video Meets PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Nina Keery and
Gary Pfitzer and
Audrey Vasilopoulos Broadening the Boundaries of Graphic Art
and Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous A Real-Time Stroll . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Anonymous Designing in a New Dimension . . . . . . 23
Rita Shoor Hollywood Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Peter Sorensen Making Waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Peter Sorensen Water, Water, Everywhere . . . . . . . . 48
Caren Potter The Human Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous The Video Toaster . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Anonymous 76 MIPS on a Desktop . . . . . . . . . . 19
Barbara Robertson A Painting Revolution . . . . . . . . . 34
Philip LoPiccolo and
Diana Phillips Mahoney and
Audrey Vasilopoulos and
Stephen Porter The Visible Volume . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Peter Sorensen Exploring the Cosmos . . . . . . . . . . 86
Anonymous Autocad 11 Scores . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Anonymous Desktop Video Contender . . . . . . . . 105
Anonymous IBM Gets Serious with Graphics . . . . . 19
Diana Phillips Mahoney Rebuilding the Past . . . . . . . . . . 30
Richard Mark Friedhoff Microvisualization . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Daniel Gross Merging Man and Machine . . . . . . . . 47
Ellen Beal Smart Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Diana Phillips Mahoney Seeing Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous 3D from the Ground Up . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous Stardent Targets the Desktop . . . . . . 21
Arielle Emmett Guardians of Style . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Peter Sorensen Algorithmic Advancements . . . . . . . . 42
Dwight B. Davis Reality Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Gregory MacNicol Spotlight on Animation . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Mac Painting Venture . . . . . . . . . . 107
Anonymous Color Printing on Plain Paper . . . . . 25
Greg Freiherr Rediscovering the Outer Planets . . . . 36
Barbara Robertson The Electronic Theatre . . . . . . . . . 46
Renee LeWinter and
Cynthia Baron Artistic Animation . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Gary Pfitzer Music and Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Audrey V. Doyle Environmental Protection . . . . . . . . 78
Anonymous MGM on the Desktop? . . . . . . . . . . 119
Anonymous SGI Redefines the Blues . . . . . . . . 25
John G. Maguire Interactive Magazines . . . . . . . . . 33
Diana Mahoney It's All Relative . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Caren Potter A Solid Solution? . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Tom McMillan New Tools for Package Design . . . . . . 62
Anonymous Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous Product Spotlight . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Anonymous Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Renee LeWinter and
Cynthia Baron The Professional's Touch . . . . . . . . 30
Barbara Robertson Biz Viz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Arielle Emmett The ABCs of LCDs . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Anonymous CAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Anonymous Imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Diana Phillips Mahoney Reading Minds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Front End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Product Spotlight . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Audrey V. Doyle Cruise Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Barbara Robertson Painting in 3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Stephen Porter Educating Our Engineers . . . . . . . . 46
Peter Sorensen Terminator 2: A Film Effects Revolution 56
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Anonymous AEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Is it Live? Or is it Prime Time Live? 6
Anonymous Apple's Quadra: The Juiciest Mac Yet . . 17
Anonymous A Healthy MCAD Market . . . . . . . . . 23
Stephen Porter Designing by the Rules . . . . . . . . . 28
Barbara Robertson 3D Modeling for Print . . . . . . . . . 36
Wesley Iversen Animation Takes the Stand . . . . . . . 48
Clifford A. Pickover The Ultimate Survey . . . . . . . . . . 57
Anonymous Swirling, Whirling Life Forms . . . . . 66
Anonymous Designer Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous The PC's True Colors . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous An Emphasis on Rendering . . . . . . . . 101
Anonymous Reordering Priorities . . . . . . . . . 124
Peter Sorensen Morphing Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Jim Cavuoto Picture-Perfect Printing . . . . . . . . 44
Wes Iversen The Sound of Science . . . . . . . . . . 54
Gary Pfitzer Computer Carpentry . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Arielle Emmett Optimized Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Diana Phillips Mahoney Designing for Health Care . . . . . . . 39
John G. Maguire Movies on Your Screen . . . . . . . . . 51
Wesley R. Iversen Digital Photography . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous A graphics market overview . . . . . . . 23
Barbara Robertson Roll Over Rodin . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Stephen Porter and
Arielle Emmett Virtual Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous Creativity Par Excellence . . . . . . . 55
Laura Lang Technology Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Anonymous Multimedia Development . . . . . . . . . 69
Wesley R. Iversen Photo Finish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Meat-and-Potatoes CAD . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous The ``Most Principle'' . . . . . . . . . 112
Gregory MacNicol Video Editing Hits the Desktop . . . . . 32
Gary Pfitzer The Lawnmower Man . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Louis M. Brill Facing Interface Issues . . . . . . . . 48
Stephen Porter Interview: Jaron Lanier . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous The market for virtual reality . . . . . 27
Caren D. Potter Mechanism Analysis Moves with the Times 30
Rick Cook Serious Entertainment . . . . . . . . . 40
Diana Phillips Mahoney Let the Games Begin . . . . . . . . . . 54
Barbara Robertson Those Amazing Flying Machines . . . . . 67
Anonymous Fun with Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous A trio of Windows-based presentation
packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Protecting purchasers of digital spatial
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Arielle Emmett A New Dynamism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Barbara Robertson Disc-O-Mania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
James Cavuoto and
David Pope Digital Proofs on Demand . . . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Review: Modelling and rendering with
Alias Sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Arielle Emmett Something for Everybody . . . . . . . . 29
Dwight Davis Big-Time Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Gary Pfitzer Inside the Rain Forest . . . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Steven Schultz High Marks for Multimedia . . . . . . . 61
Terry Wohlers 3D Digitizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous SIGGRAPH '92 Preview . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Mark Fritz Rousing Presentations . . . . . . . . . 31
Bryan Hastings Taking the Show on the Road . . . . . . 38
Bill Flynn A New Age in Color Hard-Copy . . . . . . 45
Laura Lang and
Vicki Speed Environmental Consciousness . . . . . . 57
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Tom McMillan The Promise of Portable Color . . . . . 30
Diana Phillips Mahoney Picture This . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Anonymous Portifolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Barbara Robertson Shades of Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Laura Lang GIS Comes to Life . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Barbara Robertson Moving Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Jon Leland and
Cliff Johnson The Tangled World of Desktop Video . . . 46
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Caren D. Potter Modeling Made Easy . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Tim Forcade Engineering Visualization . . . . . . . 37
Gary Pfitzer Ancient Tale, Modern Impact . . . . . . 46
Diana Phillips Mahoney Campus Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Anonymous AEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Dianna Phillips Mahoney Moviemaking in the Research Lab . . . . 19
Barbara Robertson An Art Unto Itself . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Patricia Barnes-Svarney Galactic Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . 36
CGW Staff A Peek Into the Future . . . . . . . . . 42
CGW Staff Images of Graphics Past . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Barbara Robertson Prime-Time Proving Ground for 3D
Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
B. J. Novitski Visiting Lost Cities . . . . . . . . . . 48
Rita Shoor The Erasable Optical Option . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Caren D. Potter Removing Barriers to Electro-Mechanical
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Diana Phillips Mahoney Artificial Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Ross Milburn Flying High . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Anonymous Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Gary Pfitzer State of the Arts . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Barbara Robertson Physical Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Anonymous Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Tim Forcade Striving for Realism with RenderMan . . 24
Gregory MacNicol 3D Animation: Inexpensive and Effective 37
Sheldon Liebman Video on a Network . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Diana Phillips Mahoney Drug Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Cad/Cam Predicting the impact of Windows NT on
Unix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Caren D. Potter FEA to the Core . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Gaye L. Graves The Magic of Metaballs . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Barbara Robertson Board Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Bobby-Jo Novitski Sketch Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Applications Interactive exhibit teaches scientific
concepts; Designing and modeling the car
of the future . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
B. Novitski Constructive Communication . . . . . . . 35
Louis M. Brill Kicking the Tires of VR Software . . . . 40
Diana Phillips Mahoney The Stuff of Life . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Rita Shoor Trapping on the Desktop . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Tech Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Barbara Robertson Powerful Particles . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Diana Phillips Mahoney Seeing Order in Chaos . . . . . . . . . 51
L. Stephen Wolfe Freeform Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Gaye L. Graves Hell-Bent on Adventure . . . . . . . . . 71
B. Novitski Students Who Mean Business . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Anonymous Tech Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Rick Cook The Amiga: Is it Time You Took a Second
Look? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Gregory MacNicol Sorting Through Large-Screen Monitors 42
Renee LeWinter The Objects on Your Desire . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Tech Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Laura Lang Terrain Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous The Quest for ``True'' 3D . . . . . . . 35
Barbara Robertson Dinosaur Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Ted Krum More Power on the PC . . . . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Barbara Robertson Rendering in the '90s . . . . . . . . . 28
Diana Phillips Mahoney Time Travels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Tim Forcade Evaluating 3D on the High End . . . . . 44
Kristy Holch Scanning in a Colorful World . . . . . . 59
Elizabeth Wood A Beginner's Guide to Multimedia . . . . 71
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
John MacKrell Making Sense of a Revolution . . . . . . 26
Douglas King Heads Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Mike Morrison Ready\ldots and Action! . . . . . . . . 49
Tim Forcade Evaluating 3D on the High End . . . . . 57
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Laureen Belleville The Games People Play . . . . . . . . . 22
Barbara Robertson Easy Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Diana Phillips Mahoney Movies That Move Us . . . . . . . . . . 40
Gary Pfitzer A Year in Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Erik Holsinger Finding Success With Desktop Video
Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Barbara Robertson Fascinating Filters . . . . . . . . . . 33
Diana Phillips Mahoney And the Winner Is . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Anonymous Model Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Evan Marc Hirsch 3D CAD on the Desktop . . . . . . . . . 22
Barbara Robertson Ready for a Wild Ride? . . . . . . . . . 30
Bruce Haase The Neon: A Shining Example of Design
Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Diana Phillips Mahoney Driving a New Design Mode . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous Model Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Gaye L. Graves Don't Touch That Dial! . . . . . . . . . 17
Barbara Robertson 3D Characters on Parade . . . . . . . . 28
Diana Phillips Mahoney Avant-Garde Architects Look to CAD . . . 36
Donna Coco Squeezing Video Onto the Desktop . . . . 45
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Caren D. Potter A Select Few Push the Edge of Design . . 20
Gary Pfitzer Thumbelina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Diana Phillips Mahoney Cityscapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Anonymous Model Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Barbara Robertson The Magical Art of Digital Matte
Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Bridget Mintz Testa Building a Space Station . . . . . . . . 24
Avi Bar-Zeev and
Robert Jacobson Looking Back From the Virtual Future . . 30
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Anonymous Model Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Diana Phillips Mahoney Walking Through Architectural Designs 22
Donna Coco Developing Programs for Interactive TV 33
Barbara Robertson Digital Toons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Anonymous Model Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous Product Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
D. P. Mahoney Virtual Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
B. Robertson Studios on the Cutting Edge . . . . . . 29
G. Pfitzer Wildebeests on the Run . . . . . . . . . 52
B. Robertson Disney Lets CAPS Out of the Bag . . . . 58
B. Cramblitt Rendering on a Network: With the
exception of animators who are taking
advantage of the multiplatform
capabilities of Pixar's NetRenderMan,
users of commercial animation packages
have been pretty much excluded from the
network-rendering revolution . . . . . . 28
A. V. Doyle Playing with the Music: With today's
interactive music CD-ROMs, which combine
sophisticated computer graphics and
multimedia technologies, people can not
only play the music created by some of
their favorite recording artists, they
can play with the music in ways never
before available . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
B. Robertson Unbelievably Real: For the new feature
film The Mask, the team of award-winning
special-effects artists at Industrial
Light and Magic got their first chance
to work with a comedy . . . . . . . . . 52
B. Robertson Caught in the Act: The ability to
capture motion from live beings is
finding wide acceptance as a pragmatic
and artful solution to many types of
animation problems . . . . . . . . . . . 23
A. Emmett Transcending Photorealism: Computer
artists are expressing new optimism for
the future, as they take a variety of
approaches in an effort to achieve a
more flowing, expressive style in their
work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
T. Reveaux Interacting With the Gods . . . . . . . 40
R. Sprince The Making of an Interactive Press Kit:
A behind-the-scenes look at how ABC
Television used multimedia technology to
create an interactive, CD-ROM-based
press kit to promote a television
miniseries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
D. Coco Inside the Game Developer's Toolbox . . 18
B. Robertson Kid's Stuff: Today, multimedia
technology has become sophisticated
enough to support some rather
interesting children's software designed
to teach as it entertains . . . . . . . 32
J. Alofs Coping With Copyright Law . . . . . . . 40
S. Porter Engineering Visualization: The number of
players in the visualization market is
surprisingly large for a market that's
still relatively small . . . . . . . . . 23
B. M. Tests Graphical Treasures on the Internet . . 34
D. Pope Exploring the Options Beyond 3D Studio 44
D. Oliver Enriched Video Editing: As hardware
advances have enriched the quality of
captured video, the tools used to edit
video have improved as well . . . . . . 20
B. Robertson Fresh Paint: Like word processing,
page-layout, and image-editing programs,
3D painting software-which enables
artists to paint texture maps directly
and interactively onto 3D models-is one
of those technologies that seems
impossible to imagine ever having been
without . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
G. MacNicol The Art of Lighting: The lighting of a
scene is pivotal to the power of an
image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
H. Garrett DeYoung Photo finishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Michael Jay Tucker Workstation warriors . . . . . . . . . . ??
M. J. Tucker The Workstation Warriors: Even for
people who have been using workstations
for years and who are familiar with the
issues of workstation/server computing,
deciding what to buy today can be a
major headache . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
H. Garrett DeYoung Photo Finishes: Whether they utilize
dye-sublimation, inkjet, or thermal
wax-transfer technology, today's
low-cost photorealistic printers offer
numerous design and marketing advantages
to hundreds of companies . . . . . . . . 46
Caren D. Potter Animation for Engineers: While the use
of animation by engineers is not new, a
handful of vendors have recognized a
growing demand for animation as a design
review or engineering communications
tool and have created products tailored
specifically for these purposes . . . . 54--59
Diana Phillips Mahoney Facial Animation: According to freelance
animator Rod Altschul, speech involves
not just lip movement, but also myriad
facial muscles as well as those of the
throat and tongue . . . . . . . . . . . 60--62
Donna Coco 3D conquers the PC . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Tim Forcade and
Mark Anderson Feeling frustrated? explode something ??
D. Coco 3D on the PC: Recent technological
advances in both hardware and software
are making cost-effective 3D
accelerators for the PC a reality . . . 22
Barbara Robertson Behind the Scenes of Disclosure: How IL
and M created the virtual-reality
environment for Warner Bros.' hot hit
Disclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--38
Diana Phillips Mahoney Rapid Prototyping in Medicine . . . . . 42
Douglas King Modeling virtual worlds . . . . . . . . 67--68
Anonymous Special CAD/CAM Supplement: 3D
Digitizing for Engineering . . . . . . . S1
Tony Simerman Anatomy of an animation . . . . . . . . ??
Caren D. Potter The Allure of Pretty Pictures: As solid
modeling becomes more widely used in
engineering circles and rendering
technology drops in price, the
mechanical engineering community begins
to see the value in using ``pretty
pictures'' as a communications medium 26
T. Simerman Anatomy of an Animation: Technical
hurdles, time constraints, and high
costs are often cited as obstacles to
the generation of more sophisticated 3D
characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Donna Coco Interactivity Goes Big Screen: NYC-based
Interfilm brings new meaning to the term
interactive as its all-digital,
big-screen films come to theaters
nationwide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Diana Phillips Mahoney CAD in toyland . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Barbara Robertson Untamed Animation . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Craig Lyn Storage Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Diana Phillips Mahoney CAD in Toyland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous Portfolio --- Russian photographer
Vladimir Pcholkin . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous User Focus --- Interactive walkthrough
helps San Diego clinch '96. Republican
National Convention bid. Dynamic
animations rev up Detroit Pistons fans 58
Anonymous User Snapshots --- Animations help sell
cereal. Creating cartoon characters for
new CD-ROM game. 3D illustrations
brighten pages of Money Magazine for
Kids. Analyzing the structure of the
Golden Gate Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Anonymous Model Shop --- Creating a robot in Hash
Inc's Animation Master . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Digital Workshop --- Recycle an old
image using Xaos Tools' Pennello . . . . 79
Anonymous Reviews --- In:Sync Corp's Razor Pro
desktop video editor Digimation's LenZFX
1 3, on optical-effects generator for 3D
Studio. Corel's Photo-Paint 5 Plus image
editing and paint program . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous Products --- Special NAB product preview 92
Diana Phillips Mahoney Driving VR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Special CAD/CAM Supplement: Designing
With Low-Cost 3D CAD Software . . . . . 1
Anonymous Tech Watch --- A computer connection to
the mind. A roving virtual reality van.
VR glove uses conductive sense
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Diana Phillips Mahoney Driving VR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Barbara Robertson Plug-Ins Electrify 3D Studio . . . . . . 36
Donna Coco Compositing and Special Effects . . . . 46
Anonymous Portfolio --- 3D illustrator Rob Magiera 54
Anonymous User Focus --- Designing snowboards with
AutoCAD and Pro/E Visualization aids
infertility research . . . . . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Model Shop --- Designing a watch with
Alias Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Reviews --- The Volis Group's PixelPutty
Solo V1.2. Data Translation's Media 100
V2.0. BeInfinite's InfiniteFX . . . . . 69
Anonymous Product Guide --- 16-bit sound cards . . 74
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- The language of
CAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Caren D. Potter Architectural CAD on the Desktop . . . . 25
Barbara Robertson The Magic Behind Casper . . . . . . . . 38
Arielle Emmett Color Laser Printing Technology . . . . 46--50
Anonymous Portfolio --- Some winners of
Intergraph's Golden Mouse Awards
Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous User Focus --- Planning for the '96
Olympics with 3D CAD. CAD aids in
car-collision analyses . . . . . . . . . 58
Anonymous Model Shop --- Modeling a slide with
PTC's Pro/Engineer . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Digital Workshop --- Simulating sunlight 70
Anonymous Reviews --- Bentley Systems'
MicroStation Modeler. Positron
Publishing's MeshPaint 3D. Strata's
Vision 3d Version 4.0 . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Product Guide --- Digital cameras . . . 78
George Maestri 3D animation on the Mac . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Tech Watch --- Virtual playground for
seriously ill children . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- Broad support for
the STEP data-exchange standard . . . . 19
Diana Phillips Mahoney Unlocking the Mysteries of Science --- A
variety of tools, including colors,
textures, and animation, combine to help
scientists better understand complex
natural phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Barbara Robertson What a Set-Up!\ldots. Virtual sets ---
3D computer graphics environments synced
to real cameras, rendered in real time,
and populated with real people and CG
characters who interact with each other
--- are generating excitement in the
broadcast world . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
George Macstri 3D Animation on the Mac\ldots Animators
creating complex effects should be
critical about the feature sets of the
software they choose. Thankfully, the
Mac offers a wide range of 3D animation
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Barbara Robertson Direct Action --- By improving on its
motion-capture system Boss Film created
an animation tool that enabled the
director of the new sci-fi adventure
film species to work in real time with a
textured CG creature that was moving
within an environment . . . . . . . . . 52
Ken Milburn Shopping for Scanners --- Part of the
art of picking a scanner is
understanding what you need it for and
how that need matches up with the
capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Audrey Doyle SIGGRAPH '95 Preview --- This year's
conference and exhibition, to be held
next month in Los Angeles. promises to
challenge, fascinate, and enlighten . . 65
Anonymous Portfolio --- Summer movie showcase . . 70
Anonymous User Focus --- CAD and CFD contribute to
America's Cup win. Live theater uses
computer generated scenery . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Model Shop --- Modeling a dinosaur with
metaballs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Reviews --- Caligan's trueSpace 2.0.
HSC's Live Picture 2.0,. Autodesk's
Animator Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Product Guide --- 21-inch color monitors 92
Caren D. Potter Digital tools for collaborative
engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Caren D. Potter Special CAD/CAM Supplement: Digital
Tools for Collaborative Engineering . . S1
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- Some traps and
pitfalls to watch out for . . . . . . . 25
Barbara Robertson Toy Story: A Triumph of Animation . . . 28
Donna Coco Breathing life Into 3D Humans . . . . . 40
Arielle Emmett Preparing for a Career in Animation . . 55
Stephen Porter NT Hardware Power . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Anonymous Portfolio --- A sneak peek at this
year's SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre
Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Anonymous User Focus --- VR effects in Lawnmower
Man II. Photorealistic renderings make
the grade for proposed student center 77
Anonymous Model Shop --- Modeling a believable
tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous Reviews --- Fractal Design's Poser.
Matra Datavision's Strim V6.0. Dynamic
Realities' Impact plug-in for LightWave 89
Anonymous Product Guide --- Head-mounted displays 101
Anonymous Products --- SIGGRAPH '95 Preview . . . 105
Anonymous Spotlight: News and Products . . . . . . 8
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- The need for
specialized CAID software . . . . . . . 19
Joanne Schechter The Spin on CD-ROM Drives . . . . . . . 23
Stephen Porter What's Up With ACIS? . . . . . . . . . . 30
Donna Coco Water, Water Everywhere . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Portfolio --- Ultra-realistic CG humans 42
Anonymous User Focus --- Computer analyses help
engineers optimize heart-valve design 47
Diana Phillips Mahoney Medical researchers take simulations to
heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--49
Anonymous Model Shop --- The benefits of shaded
graphics modeling . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Anonymous Reviews --- Parametric Technology's
Pro/JR. Virtuality's Elysium. VR
development system. form. Z2.7
RenderZone from auto.des.sys . . . . . . 57
Anonymous Product Guide --- Video/graphics
accelerators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Joanne Schechter Accelerating 3D graphics . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- Is ``fancy''
rendering really necessary? . . . . . . 19
Barbara Robertson Hair-Raising Effects --- Techniques for
putting hair on humans and fur on ani
als are moving out of custom effects
houses and into commercial software . . 24
Joanne Schechter Accelerating 3D Graphics --- 3D graphics
accelerators are promising to bring
workstation-quality 3D graphics to
Pentium PCs. But can you really get
workstation-level 3D graphics on the PC
at PC prices? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Diana Phillips Mahoney Modeling for Virtual Reality --- When
developing virtual environments,
modelers must follow a set of rules that
are more complex than those adhered to
by creators of passive animations . . . 45
R. Shamms Mortier A Second Chance for the Amiga --- How
long a life the Amiga can sustain
depends on the direction in which German
computer manufacturer ESCOM AG takes the
technology, how quickly it can bring new
products to market, and how users and
developers respond . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous Portfolio --- Some works from Disney
animator Lee Lanier . . . . . . . . . . 56
Anonymous User Focus --- A virtual tour of
France's Lascaux Cave. CAD gives
handcrafted look to ceramic dinnerware 61
Anonymous Model Shop --- Some tips for designing a
3D database for simulation applications 67
Anonymous Reviews --- Microcadam's solid models.
AnimaTek's World Builder. The MGA
Millennium from Matrox . . . . . . . . . 73
Caren D. Potter Special CAD/CAM Supplement --- Best
Practices in Solid Modeling --- What is
it about solid modeling that makes it so
difficult to do well, and how might it
be better utilized? . . . . . . . . . . S1
Jack Thornton From model to mold . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Spotlight: News and Products . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Tech Watch --- Intel's Indeo Video
Interactive. Pacific Bell's enhanced
Media Park. ADAMS\slash Car for advanced
vehicle simulation . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- The challenges of
3D digitizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Jack Thornton From Model to Mold --- Developments in
computer-aided manufacturing software
are helping to speed up the
design-to-manufacturing process for
plastic parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Arielle Emmett 3D Type --- With today's animated 3D
titling packages, which offer an array
of typography, compositing, and
post-production features, conjuring up
something more than just the jaded
flying font is fairly easy . . . . . . . 35
Evan Yares Planning Your Choice of Inkjet Plotters
--- Inkjet plotters not only dominate
the CAD output market, they're also
gaining popularity with graphic artists.
What makes them so popular? And what
should you consider when purchasing such
a device? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
B. J. Novitski QuickTime VR Opens Doors for Architects?
With Apple's QuickTime VR, architects
--- even those relying on relatively
modest equipment --- can ``navigate''
photographic-quality scenes . . . . . . 50
Anonymous Portfolio --- Toy Story's believable
hair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Anonymous User Focus --- Architects use familiar
tools in a new way Canadian television's
ReBoot cartoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous Model Shop --- Modeling a
picture-perfect fly . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Product Guide --- LCD projection panels 70
Anonymous Reviews --- 3D/Eye's TriSpectives.
Linker Systems' Animation Stand.
Specular's Infini-D V3.0 . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Products --- Autofact '95 Preview . . . 78
George Maestri Capturing motion . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- Emphasizing the
value of innovative design engineers . . 19
Donna Coco Real-Time 3D Games Take Off --- The
skills needed to create a real-time 3D
game are a bit different from those
best-suited to 2D or to prerendered 3D
development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Diana Phillips Mahoney Architecture for the Fun of It --- The
burgeoning digital entertainment market
represents some exciting new
opportunities for a growing number of
architects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
George Maestri Capturing Motion --- Motion-rapture
systems are quickly entering the front
lines of digital animation production,
capturing motion for characters in
everything from video games to feature
films. But how do you go about
implementing the technology? . . . . . . 47
Anonymous Portfolio --- Roy Dream's Modern Masters
of 3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Anonymous User Focus --- Homer and Bart Simpson go
3D. Animations highlight downtown Las
Vegas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Anonymous Model Shop --- Creating cool effects
with KPT Gradient Designer . . . . . . . 68
Anonymous Reviews --- NewTek's LightWave 3D V4 0.
Knowledge Revolution's Working Model
V3.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Product Guide --- 3D model libraries . . 80
Anonymous Sun, SGI, and Macromedia to Extend Java 8--8
Anonymous Tech Watch --- New system for 3D motion
capture. Time multiplexing enables
``perfect'' 3D display . . . . . . . . . 19
Caren D. Potter Sorting Through the Bargain Bin of 3D
CAD --- Looking for a 3D mechanical CAD
program, but all you've got is USD 1500?
Take heart: a little money goes a long
way in the world of low-cost mechanical
CAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Barbara Robertson Jumanji's Amazing Animals --- ILM's
visual-effects team has done it again.
The creators of the believable dinosaurs
in Jurassic Park have performed their
magic once again for Jumanji, TriStar
Pictures' new action-adventure film,
which stars hundreds of 3D, animated
animals you'd swear are living,
breathing creatures . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Hottest Products of 1995 --- CGW's 2nd
Annual Editors' Choice Awards honor the
most innovative products introduced and
shipped in 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Arielle Emmett Vendors Streamline Large-Format Scanners
--- The increasing use of large-format
scanners is driving improvements in
technology as well as software . . . . . 46
Anonymous Portfolio --- Animator ``sculpts'' Iron
Man poster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Anonymous User Focus --- Going back in time in Las
Vegas for Casino. AEC company relies on
realtime virtual reality . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous Model Shop --- Modeling the human face
with Alias' PowerAnimator . . . . . . . 66
Gil Bruvel Making faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--69
Anonymous Reviews --- MetaReyes' Metaballs V2.01.
Strata's StudioPro Blitz V1.75. Positran
Publishing's Dynamic Motion Module . . . 73
Anonymous Product Guide --- PC-based video-capture
cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- Windows: a threat
to Unix? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Diana Phillips Mahoney Riding the Wave of Motion-Based Movies
--- Producers of ride-simulation films
are increasingly looking to
computer-generated imagery to create
scenes that films are increasingly
looking to computer-generated imagery to
create scenes that are either
technologically impossible or
impractical to achieve . . . . . . . . . 30
Bill McCloskey Let's Make a Deal --- The secrets to
negotiating a great deal on high-end
animation software and hardware --- and
maintaining good post-sales and
technical support --- as revealed by a
former software salesperson . . . . . . 38
Arielle Emmett Tuning In to Tablets --- Choosing which
2D digitizer is right for your
application requires careful analysis of
such subtleties as ergonomics, weight,
and size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Anonymous User Focus --- 3D models for medical
education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Anonymous Model Shop --- Modeling faces that exude
personality when animated . . . . . . . 58
Anonymous Reviews --- Visual Software's Visual
Reality 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Anonymous Product Guide --- High-end scan
converters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Caren D. Potter CAD/CAM Special Report: New CAD
Architectures --- As established CAD
software vendors revise their product
offerings, they're devising underlying
architectures that differ significantly
from those of previous releases. One
common ingredient in these newly
architected CAD systems is the
incorporation of object-oriented
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S1
Caren D. Potter New architectures: a blueprint for CAD's
future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Tech Watch --- 3D scenes from visual
databases. NASA eases way through huge
databases. Vote America sorts out
presidential campaign issues and
candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- More CAD traps
and pitfalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous Renault's Quest for Realism ---
Renault's design and visualization
expertise shines in Les Citadines, the
latest in a string of videos the French
automaker has produced to not only
showcase its graphics expertise but also
to play a valuable role in its design
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Barbara Robertson Battling for Dominance --- Vendors
claiming their workstations are ``the
price-performance leaders'' or ``the
honest 3D machines'' battle for
dominance in the midrange of the market 52
Anonymous Portfolio --- Amblin animators give
Balto a hand-drawn look . . . . . . . . 62
Anonymous User Focus --- Magnet Pictures
re-creates action figure for toy
commercial. Animators re-create Arizona
fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Model Shop --- Some modeling tips for
the Boolean-shy . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Anonymous Reviews --- Adobe's After Effects V3.0.
Ray Dream's Studio Avid's Beyond Reality 71
Anonymous Product Guide --- Direct-imaging
plotters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Anonymous Spotlight: News and Products . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Digital Studio --- 3D chip powers arcade
game. Low-end 3D chips proliferate. Free
3D models on the Web . . . . . . . . . . 17
Evan Marc Hirsch A Changing Landscape --- The animation
marketplace has undergone some dramatic
changes over the past few years. Here,
we try to make sense of these changes
and help determine the impact they will
have on the animation industry . . . . . 21
George Maestri A Window of Opportunity? Given the
dramatic promises being touted for the
Windows NT operating system, the
question for many animation houses is
whether now is the right time to invest
in NT machines. To help answer that
question, we take a look at the first 3D
animation programs that attempt to take
advantage of NT: NewTek's LightWave 3D,
Microsoft's Softimage 3D, and Autodesk's
3D Studio MAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Tam Harbert A/V Drive Vendors Expand Their Offerings
--- Today's product offerings provide
video and animation professionals with
such benefits as increased storage space
and uninterrupted data flow . . . . . . 43
Anonymous Portfolio --- The work of graphic artist
Richard Bucci . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous User Focus --- The ``Great American
Virtual Home''. CAD plays role in design
of DarkStar military aircraft . . . . . 53
Anonymous Model Shop --- Some modeling tips for
game developers . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Reviews --- Microsoft's Softimage 3D for
NT. Fractal's Painter 4. MetaTools'
Kai's Power Tools V3.0 . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Products --- NAB Product Preview . . . . 71
Diana Phillips Mahoney Virtual reality on the PC . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Tech Watch --- VR simulates surgery.
Forum addresses multimedia options.
Digital archive of the Earth . . . . . . 17
Adele Hars CAD in Europe --- Many Americans feel
Europeans are 10 years behind in their
use of CAD technology, while numerous
Europeans believe the Americans will
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Caren D. Potter Achieving the Optimal Design --- Because
the design optimization capabilities in
most finite-element analysis programs
have traditionally been difficult to use
for a number of reasons, designers and
engineers haven't really been making use
of the tools. But as vendors enhance
their design optimization offerings,
previous objections to the use of this
technology are beginning to disappear 21
John R. Vacca 3D Worlds on the Web --- Thanks to the
stabilization of the Virtual Reality
Modeling Language (VRML), the tools
needed to create and view 3D worlds on
the Web are becoming more widely
available . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Diana Phillips Mahoney Virtual Reality on the PC ---
Significant enhancements in PC hardware
are prompting many vendors of
virtual-reality software to develop more
user-friendly interfaces to enhance the
appeal of their PC-based offerings . . . 53
Anonymous Portfolio --- Lower-end tools produce
high-end results . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Anonymous User Focus --- Simulating a facelift for
the Royal Albert Hall 3D simulation key
evidence in leaky-roof lawsuit . . . . . 69
Anonymous Model Shop --- Dealing with details . . 73
Anonymous Reviews --- Alias: Wavefront's
PowerAnimator V7. Speed Razor Mach 111
from in:sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Product Guide --- Presentation monitors 82
Caren D. Potter CAD/CAM Special Report: CAD Contracts
Won and Lost --- Why do companies buy
the CAD systems they buy, and what
factors might prompt users to replace an
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- The real value of
3D rendering to architects . . . . . . . 19
B. J. Novitski Adventures in Architecture ---
Architects who find photorealism too
expensive and time-consuming to achieve
are experimenting with novel techniques
for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Barbara Robertson Texture Tactics --- Even though the
quality differs from product to product,
hardware acceleration for texture
mapping is showing up on everything from
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Gregory Pyros Outputting Animation to Video --- There
are a variety of methods available for
outputting animation to video. But to
decide which method is best for you and
your application, you must understand
several concepts related to the . . . . 41
Anonymous Portfolio --- Intergraph's Golden Mouse
Award winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Anonymous User Focus --- AEC firm wins design bid
with help of interactive simulation.
CD-ROM re-creates one of China's lost
treasures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Model Shop --- Sony Pictures Imageworks
creates CG butterflies for feature film
The Craft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Reviews --- SolidWorks 95 solid modeler.
Macromedia's Extreme 3D. Hash Inc's
Animation Master V4.0 . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Product Guide --- CRT projectors . . . . 90
Anonymous Tech Watch --- Mapping wound-healing
progress. Reality meets virtual reality.
Telemedicine debuts at Summer Olympics 17
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- RenderWare vs.
OpenGL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Diana Phillips Mahoney The Art and Science of Medical
Visualization --- In conjunction with
dramatic advances in scanning
technologies, computer-aided
visualization tools are . . . . . . . . 25
Barbara Robertson He's Back! T2 3D, the third installment
of the fast-action, science-fiction
Terminator saga, combines elements from
the theater, virtual-reality,
theme-park, and feature film worlds to
create an immersive, sensory experience 36
Donna Coco Desktop Special Effects --- Today's
desktop special-effects market is quite
diverse, boasting a range of packages
offering not only enhanced morphing
functionality but also the ability to
warp and distort images and video as
well as create digital-video effects and
transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Amy Rowell The 2D CAD Option --- Despite the
growing popularity of solid modeling
software, the demand for ZD CAD software
continues to be strong. And whether
you're a technical illustrator, an
engineer, an architect, or a hobbyist,
chances are good that you can find a
package perfectly suited to your
particular needs . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous Portfolio --- CG magic in Disney's
Hunchback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Anonymous User Focus --- Reverse engineering
elevates science of saddle making . . . 63
Anonymous Model Shop --- Creating a convincing
composite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Reviews --- Kinetix's 3D Studio Max.
Bryce 2.0 from MetaTools . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Product Guide --- Under-USD 10,000
desktop film recorders . . . . . . . . . 76
Anonymous Digital Studio --- ``CG'' movies and
their Web sites. James and the Giant
Peach. Amazing Studio's Heart of
Darkness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- Unix workstations
will prosper despite Windows NT's
success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Diana Phillips Mahoney The Fabric of Animation --- Due to a
variety of factors, realistically
animating CG clothing is extraordinarily
difficult. As such, most of the
significant work being done in this area
is taking place in university-based
research facilities . . . . . . . . . . 29
Ian Ashdown Lighting for Architects --- How do you
model light within a computer graphics
program? The answer encompasses two
basic approaches: ray tracing and
radiosity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Caren D. Potter Engineering on the Internet --- A few
years ago, few CAD vendors were talking
publicly about the Internet and its
graphical showpiece, the World Wide Web.
Now, all of them have formulated
Internet strategies, and a handful have
already announced Internet-related
products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Stefen Fangmeier Designing Digital Tornados --- How the
artists and designers at Industrial
Light and Magic overcame the many
challenges they encountered when
creating Twister's tornados . . . . . . 58
Michael Jay Tucker Have High-End Monitors Gone Vanilla? If
you're interested in purchasing a 1- to
21-inch, high-end color monitor, your
choices are broader than ever . . . . . 65
Anonymous Portfolio --- A sampling of works from
this year's SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre 74
Anonymous User Focus --- New interface puts
filmmakers inside scientific wonderland 81
Anonymous Model Shop --- Create a walking alien
with Character Studio . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous Reviews --- UnReal Pictures/Kinetix's
Character Studio. Pixar's RenderMan
Artists Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Anonymous Products --- SIGGRAPH '96 Product
Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Anonymous CAD/CAM Special Report: Workgroup vs.
Enterprise-Wide PDM --- Should
prospective buyers of product data
management systems purchase and install
enterprise-wide systems or local
(workgroup) systems? What are the
benefits and limitations of each? . . . S1
Anonymous Tech Watch --- A virtual emergency room 17
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- Defining new CAD
standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Susan Smith Hybrid Modeling --- If this new approach
to solid modeling does everything
vendors claim it does, then it's no
wonder that some companies are touting
it as the wave of the future . . . . . . 25
Arielle Emmett Scanners and Film Recorders at the High
End --- Thanks to the explosion in the
use of CG technology in films, high-end
film scanners and film recorders . . . . 53
Tam Harbert Sorting Out RAID Storage --- The need
for faster data transfer and more
storage space is driving many graphics
professionals to use RAID systems . . . 61
Anonymous Portfolio --- Graphisoft contest sparks
architecture students' creativity . . . 68
Anonymous User Focus --- Redesigning SyQuest with
CAD. Exploring Olympic locale with
simulated flythrough . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Model Shop --- The modular approach to
modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Reviews --- Intergraph's Solid Edge.
Autodesk's Mechanical Desktop.
Macromedia's Director 5.0 . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Product Guide --- Low-cost 3D
accelerators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Anonymous Digital Studio --- Quake the 3D sequel
to Doom. Experiencing the Vatican's
``Raffaello Rooms''. A virtual trip to
Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- Focusing
technology on business benefits . . . . 23
Adele Hars Masters of Motion Capture --- One of the
leaders in performance animation
technology is Medialab, an animation
production house based in Paris. Its
real time characters perform on
television and serve as corporate
mascots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Diana Phillips Mahoney Feature Prototyping --- Today, comfort
and ease of use are top priorities when
it comes to designing technology-rich
products, such as avionics control . . . 38
Arielle Emmett Dye-Sublimation Printers --- Dye-sub
devices stand alone in terms of their
ability to deliver true photo-quality
output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Anonymous Portfolio --- The art of industrial
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous User Focus --- The challenge of creating
a new kind of VR experience . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Model Shop --- Modeling an airplane with
Hash's Animation Master . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Reviews --- NewTek's LightWave 5.0.
Positron Publishing's MeshPaint 3D V1.5 69
Anonymous Product Guide --- LED plotters . . . . . 74
Caren D. Potter Designing Large Assemblies --- Pushed by
the sophisticated demands of the
aerospace and automotive industries,
CAD/CAM technology is finally becoming
adept at handling complex assemblies
containing thousands and even tens of
thousands of parts . . . . . . . . . . . S1
Anonymous Tech Watch --- A virtual retina display.
Healing with holograms. Group VR
environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Susan Smith The Challenges of Complex Surfaces ---
While some argue that surfaces have not
progressed nearly enough, others point
to developments in surface modeling that
make working with complex surfaces just
a little easier . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Diana Phillips Mahoney L5: First City in Space --- This new
Imax 3D film is a futuristic adventure
that combines 3D computer graphics and
live-action footage with actual space
imagery-provided by NASA . . . . . . . . 39
Mark Clarkson 3D Accelerators, Round Two --- A new
generation of 3D graphics accelerator
boards for Windows NT are coming to
market just a little over a year after
the first generation hit the streets.
And for just about the same price as
last year's models, you can get a lot
more functionality . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Portfolio --- The imagery of Henk Dawson 74
Anonymous User Focus --- A bold opener for MTV
features on animated fetus . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Model Shop --- Animating displacement
maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Reviews --- SolidWorks 96. PTC's Pro/E
Rel 17.0. ElectricImage V2.7 . . . . . . 91
Anonymous Product Guide --- Rapid prototyping
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Anonymous Digital Studio --- The ultimate racing
game. Motion-captured characters.
Creating digital life . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- What does VRML
have to offer design engineers? . . . . 22
Ralph Grabowski Will VRML 2.0 Let Me Design a Bolt
Faster? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 24
Donna Coco New Tools for 3D Gamers --- In the last
year, vendors of 3D software took a
particular interest in game developers,
bringing to market a wealth of new
products with modeling and animation
features geared specifically at their
needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Diana Phillips Mahoney Animating Nature --- It's not easy to
mimic Mother Nature. Yet that's not
stopping computer artists and animators
from striving to create ever more
believable digital versions of oceans,
mountains, forests, hurricanes, and
avalanches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Davois S. Cohn Reading Computer Benchmarks --- Although
flawed, computer benchmarks provide one
of the few ways of quantifying system
performance. But you've got to be able
to analyze the test results correctly,
or you'll be fooled into making
assumptions about performance that will
be entirely misleading . . . . . . . . . 49
Anonymous Portfolio --- Stunning room designs . . 58
Anonymous User Focus --- A new ride film goes
underground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous Reviews --- Corel CAD. HiJaak Pro 4.0 67
Anonymous Product Guide --- CD recorders and
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Tech Watch --- A unique collaborative
environment for scientists. A virtual
trade show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Troy Dunniway 3D Paints a Broader Stroke . . . . . . . 18
Raymond Kurland Mid-Range Mechanical CAD: A Comparison
--- High-end CAD/CAM programs are
starting to feel the heat from low-cost,
production-worthy, mid-range CAD
packages. But just how sophisticated are
those programs, and how do they compare
in their modeling capabilities? This
benchmark comparison provides some clues 29
Doug King Picture-Perfect Models --- Are you still
creating 3D models the old-fashioned
way? Now there are a handful of
commercial software packages that employ
photogrammetric algorithms that enable
you to create 3D models from
photographs. True, they're not the
perfect solution for every application,
but for\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Anonymous The Hottest Products of the Year ---
It's time once again to recognize the
most impressive products of the year.
The winners of this year's CGW
Innovation Awards are a select group of
25 new products that stood out from the
crowd. These are products that are truly
pushing the leading edge of computer . . 46
Anonymous Portfolio --- The architect as artist 56
Anonymous User Focus --- FEA plays a role in
medical imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Reviews --- Softimage 3D V3.51. Speed
Razor 3.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- The Web promises
to bring sweeping changes . . . . . . . 15
Amy Romwell The Design Benefits of Group VR ---
What's the best way for engineers and
scientists to share their ideas with one
another? For some, the best solution
might be to use virtual reality. From VR
theaters to shared virtual space via the
Internet, virtual reality is becoming an
increasingly important medium in project
design, presentation, and collaboration 21
Tim Forcade 3D Plug-Ins Proliferate --- Once the
province of 3D Studio, plug-in fever has
spread to numerous other 3D modeling and
animation packages. In fact, the frantic
pace at which 3D plug-ins are appearing
is outstripping and driving the
previously centralized 3D software
development process . . . . . . . . . . 32
Joanne Schechter The Workstation Explosion --- Dramatic
advances in PC and graphics technology
have effectively married the
full-featured graphics workstation to
the ordinary PC. The result? The
powerful NT workstation. As the market
for these new machines explodes, vendors
scramble to claim their slice of the pie 40
Anonymous Portfolio --- The imagery of Versailles 52
Anonymous User Focus --- Japanese music video
features CG characters . . . . . . . . . 55
Anonymous Model Shop --- Creating a lost temple
with 3D Studio Max . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous Reviews --- Side Effects' Houdini . . . 67
Anonymous Product Guide --- Removable disk drives 71
Amy Rowell and
Jeffrey Rowe CAD/CAM Special Report: Industrial
Design --- Industrial design is a
complex field of activity that straddles
the worlds of both art and engineering.
The job of the industrial designer is to
create innovative products and help
bring them to market quickly. . . . . . S1
Anonymous Tech Watch --- Stanford researchers use
lasers to create color in a cube;
Developing Virtualized Reality at
Carnegie Mellon; Chemists create
teeny-tiny monitors; High-speed video on
the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Caren Potter Analysis for Design Engineers --- The
push is on to move analysis up to the
front of the design process, and one way
vendors are trying to accommodate that
trend is by developing analysis tools
that can be put directly into the hands
of designers. But can such tools ever
really be used safely by anyone other
than specialized analysts? . . . . . . . 23
Terry Wohlers The Technology Behind 3D Digitizing ---
One of the most common misconceptions is
that 3D digitizers somehow magically
covert an object to computer model data.
In truth, there's nothing magical about
it. Making 3D digitizing work is as much
an art as it is a science . . . . . . . 47
Anonymous Portfolio --- Visible Humans . . . . . . 56
Anonymous User Focus --- Scientists employ a
unique visualization display. The stage
itself comes alive in this theatrical
production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Model Shop --- Designing a personal
pager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Reviews --- Rhino 3D offers NURBS;
MicroScribe digitizer SolidView 2.0 . . 71
Anonymous Product Guide --- Wide-format ink jet
plotters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Digital Studio --- The magic behind The
Relic; A new game from Psygnosis . . . . 13
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- Architects need
to think like filmmakers . . . . . . . . 19
Diana Mahoney Face Tracking --- Recreating the subtle
and not-so-subtle expressions of the
human face is no trivial task. Even a
simple smile involves the interplay of
myriad muscles. Yet given the booming
market for animated characters, the push
is on to create reliable face-tracking
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Donna Coco Developers Embrace VRML 2.0 --- With the
arrival of VRML 2.0, Web developers are
creating 3D environments that are more
exciting and robust than ever. But that
doesn't mean there aren't problems. The
technology's still new, and working with
it requires patience, understanding, and
a healthy degree of creativity to
navigate around obstacles . . . . . . . 32
Barbara Robertson Animation Special Report: Making Motion
Easy --- Computer animation programs
have not always been easy to use. But
that's starting to change as vendors
bring out an ever-increasing number of
clever tools that make the art of
animation a little faster, a little
easier, and maybe even a little better 42
Lisa Vincenzi Buying Motion --- One way to create
animated characters is to use
motion-capture technology. And if you
don't have the tools or the resources to
do it yourself, there's a growing number
of motion-capture service bureaus who'll
gladly step in to help you out . . . . . 42
Caren Potter Can AutoCAD Fight Back? It's been a
tough year for Autodesk. Its stock price
has taken a beating, its last release of
AutoCAD software was soundly criticized,
and its competitors are licking their
chops. Is this the beginning of a gloomy
future, or is the once high-flying
company poised to make a comeback? . . . 61
Anonymous Portfolio --- The City of Lost Children 68
Anonymous User Focus --- Training simulation on a
PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Model Shop --- Create your own 3D
digitizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Reviews --- Fractal's Poser 2.0;
DeBabelizer Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous Tech Watch --- The world's tiniest
display; A new VR installation; Motion
capture for medicine; Reproducing 3D
surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- Solid modeling
for industrial design . . . . . . . . . 19
Diana Phillips Mahoney All Fired Up --- On average, it takes
from three to five years to design and
produce a new fire truck. But the
engineers and designers at Freightliner
managed to reduce that process to just
nine months through some skillful use of
its digital tools . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Caren Potter The Engines of Mechanical CAD --- As
modeling kernels such as ACIS,
Parasolid, and DesignBase continue their
battle for market share, the debate
rages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Diana Phillips Mahoney Procedural Animation --- Procedural
animation techniques, which use
algorithms or mathematical expressions
to drive the movement of objects or
volumes over time, already are
delivering some significant benefits to
animators. But the technology continues
to advance, and tomorrow's animation
programs will make even greater use of
these techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Sandra Helsel High-Res VR Displays --- Today, the
range of displays for virtual reality
runs the gamut from head-mounted
displays to virtual-model displays. Each
of these different types of displays has
their own unique advantages, and for
those who want to understand the
potential of VR, a good place to begin
is to understand the various VR display
options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Anonymous Portfolio --- A modeler with a mission 58
Anonymous Reviews --- SolidWorks 97; Allplan FT;
Extreme 3D 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous Product Guide --- Windows-based solid
modelers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Anonymous Digital Studio --- Creating an LBE
experience. A unique real-time character 11
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- The future of 3D
graphics boards . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Diana Phillips Mahoney Moving Beyond CAD . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Diana Phillips Mahoney Philadelphia 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Barbara Robertson Something Has Survived . . . . . . . . . 34
Donna Coco Interacting with Dinosaurs . . . . . . . 42
Joanne Schechter Selecting a Projector . . . . . . . . . 51
Amy Rowell CAD/CAM Interoperability . . . . . . . . 57
Anonymous Portfolio --- Creating landscapes . . . 74
Anonymous Reviews --- I-DEAS Artisan Series.
Strata StudioPro 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Tech Watch --- A floating display.
Real-time motion capture. Designing a
bridge. A virtual lab . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- Displaying large
assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Donna Coco Creating Intelligent Creatures . . . . . 22
Barbara Robertson Virtual Humans at Work . . . . . . . . . 33
Diana Phillips Mahoney Visualizing Volumes . . . . . . . . . . 42
Joanne Schechter Flat Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Anonymous Portfolio --- A winning student
animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Anonymous User Focus --- Chrysler embraces VR . . 61
Anonymous Reviews --- Intergraph's Solid Edge 3.0.
Caligari's trueSpace3 . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Spotlight: News and Products . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Digital Studio --- The invisible effects
of ``roar''. A cross-cultural
edutainment title . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- Displaying large
assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Barbara Robertson Read My Lips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Diana Phillips Mahoney The Power of Touch . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Amy A. Rowell CAD Meets Hollywood at TFX . . . . . . . 53
Donna Coco Animation Special Report: Choosing the
``Right'' Animation System . . . . . . . 62
Barbara Robertson Pushing the Envelope . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Portfolio --- Hot summer movies . . . . 88
Anonymous User Focus --- Simulating emergency
medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Anonymous Reviews --- Second Nature's Hypermatter.
PowerAnimator 8.0 . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Anonymous Tech Watch --- Pattern-recognition
system. Piecing together history. 3D
semiconductor simulation. Multi-threaded
architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- Feature-based
virtual prototyping . . . . . . . . . . 23
Barbara Robertson Real Troopers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Joanne Schechter Update Your Thinking of Stereoscopic
Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Jeffrey Rowe Surface Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Amy Rowell Prototyping in a Digital World . . . . . 55
Ann Meyer Virtual Prototypes . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Portfolio --- A digital cell
reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous User Focus --- Animating biological
defenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Reviews --- Vellum 3D Version 3.0.
AutoCAD Rel. 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Digital Studio --- An intergalactic
adventure. It's back to Zork . . . . . . 17
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- Getting the most
from models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Donna Coco Creating Humans for Games . . . . . . . 26
Joanne Schechter Unix Workstations Stand Their Ground . . 36
Evan Yares Photo-quality Printers . . . . . . . . . 50
Barbara Robertson 3D Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Portfolio --- Starship Titanic . . . . . 74
Anonymous User Focus --- Surgeon gets 3D insight 77
Anonymous Reviews --- 3D Studio Viz. Ray Dream 5.0 81
Anonymous Tech Watch --- A Canadian Odyssey.
CG-enhanced brain research. A new
semiconductor design. High-end rendering
option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- Common-sense
Rules for CAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Amy Rowell Engineered to Look Real . . . . . . . . 26
Donna Coco Motion Capture Advances . . . . . . . . 37
Barbara Robertson Pioneers and Performers . . . . . . . . 46
George Maestri Affordable Animation . . . . . . . . . . 54
Caren Potter Web-enabled Engineering . . . . . . . . 64
Anonymous Q and A: Web-enabled Engineering . . . . 71
Anonymous Portfolio --- Zork Grand Inquisitor . . 78
Anonymous User Focus --- The house that Wright
(could have) built . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Reviews --- Cadkey 97/FastSOLID.
SolidDesigner 5.1. Cinema 4D . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Spotlight: News and Products . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Digital Studio --- Constructing Lego
Island. Dilbert Does 3D . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous CAD/CAM Connection --- The Changing
Landscape of Mechanical CAD . . . . . . 21
Barbara Robertson Different Strokes . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Donna Coco Tools for VRML 2.0 Development . . . . . 37
Caren Potter Concept Modelers: The Latest Trend in
Rapid Prototyping --- Smaller, faster,
cheaper siblings of conventional
rapid-prototyping tools, concept
modelers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Diana Phillips Mahoney Virtual Therapy Nets Real Results . . . 52
Anonymous Portfolio --- Anastasia . . . . . . . . 60
Anonymous User Focus --- Babylon 5's Last Hurrah 65
Anonymous Reviews --- World Builder 2.0. Infini-D
4.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Anonymous Tech Watch --- Modeling life's
complexities. VR in medicine 3D camera
technology. Blue lasers for optical
storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Barbara Robertson The Grand Illusion . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous 1997 CGW Innovation Awards . . . . . . . 36
Joanne Schechter Richer Ride Films . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Richlard Spohrer Making CAD Models Shine . . . . . . . . 51
Anonymous Portfolio --- Artist ex Machina . . . . 60
Anonymous User Focus --- A geological adventure 63
Anonymous Model Shop --- Creating organic models 67
Anonymous Reviews --- 3D Studio Max 2.0.
Alias/Wavefront Composer 4.5 . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Digital Studio --- Developing Kingsley 15
Barbara Robertson Meet Geri: The New Face of Animation . . 20
Barbara Robertson Crowd Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Arny A. Rowell Product Data Management Sports a New
Look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Tim Forcade Unraveling Riven . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Hal Glatzer CD or DVD? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Anonymous Portfolio --- Flubber's emotional range 62
Anonymous User Focus --- A new bike design . . . . 67
Anonymous Model Shop --- Animating a scorpion's
sting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Reviews --- Lightscape 3.1, Michanicol
Desktop 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous TechWatch --- From Bones to Clones . . . 17
Anonymous TechWatch --- Walking Through VR . . . . 17
Anonymous CAD/CAM --- Connection --- Digital
Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Barbara Robertson Sav A-h-h-h-h . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Diana Philips Mahoney Merging CAD and GIS . . . . . . . . . . 45
Donna Coco CG that Gives You the Creeps . . . . . . 52
Amy A. Rowell Virtual Vehicles Set the Pace . . . . . 61
Evan Hirsch New Technology in the Old Country . . . 70
Jeffrey Rowe Tools for the Digital Stylist . . . . . 73
Joanne Schechter 3D Digitizers Make Their Mark . . . . . 79
Anonymous Portfolio --- Digital Set Design . . . . 86
Anonymous User Focus --- The Thrill of the Chase.
Spinal Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Anonymous Reviews --- Catalyst V 1.1. IntelliCAD98 97
Anonymous Digital Studio --- Top Secret Ride Film.
The Riddler's Revenge . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous CAD/CAM --- Connection: Making CAD/CAM,
CAE Easier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Barbara Robertson Brushing Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Donna Coco 3D Stars on TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Mark Hodges Visualization Spoken Here . . . . . . . 55
Diana Phillips Mahoney Commercial Success . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Lorraine Savage The Anime Invasion . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Portfolio --- Making Movies, Pronto . . 78
Anonymous User Focus --- Time Travels . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Reviews --- Bryce 3D. SolidWorks 98 . . 85
Anonymous Tech Watch --- A movie with heart. The
NICE way to Learn . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Connection --- Sharing CAD models on the
Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Caren D. Potter CAD Makes a Play in Sports . . . . . . . 24
Arielle Emmett Virtual Journeys . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Lane Boyd Digital Factories . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Barbara Robertson Right on Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Richard Hollander 3D Tracking: A user's View . . . . . . . 60
Anonymous Portfolio --- Natural Beauty . . . . . . 68
Anonymous User Focus --- Virtual Dancers Get
Moving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Reviews --- Piranesi. Design Wave 2.0 77
Anonymous Resources and Events . . . . . . . . . . 86
Anonymous Digital Studio --- 3D Goes to the Opera.
Cool Looks for Barbie . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous CAD/CAM --- Connection. Kernel Wars . . 19
B. J. Novitski An Architectural Awakening . . . . . . . 22
Caren D. Potter Battlinq for the Midranqe . . . . . . . 42
Randall Warniers Dirty Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Gregory Pyros Designing Virtual Sets . . . . . . . . . 63
Anonymous Portfolio --- A Light Touch . . . . . . 70
Anonymous User Focus --- Simulating a tragic
crash. A spokescharacter with attitude 75
Anonymous Reviews --- ArchiDesign. DataCAD 8.0 . . 83
Anonymous Spotlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Market Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Tech Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Barbara Robertson A New Cast of Characters: From Antz to
'Zillas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Anonymous Bingo!: A short film puts new animation
software to the test . . . . . . . . . . 33
Anonymous Small Soldiers: The characters are
short, but animating them was a tall
order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Godzilla: See what it took to bring this
giant lizard and his babies to life . . 49
Ben Long Character Building . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Anonymous A Bug's Life: The team behind Toy Story
collaborates on a ``buggy'' animation 56
Anonymous Antz: Proprietary character-animation
software helped launch this critter
invasion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Diana Phillips Mahoney Brainstorm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Donna Coco Stimulating Simulations . . . . . . . . 92
David Cohn Digital Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Anonymous Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous User Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Anonymous Events and Resources . . . . . . . . . . 132
Anonymous Insight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Anonymous Spotlight --- News and Products . . . . 10
Anonymous Market Outlook --- PC Graphics Grows Up 17
Anonymous Tech Watch --- Music and Graphics in
Harmony. Averting Aviation Disasters.
Visualization Drives Mars Exploration 20
Anonymous Viewpoint --- Making CAD Pay . . . . . . 27
Donna Coco Space: An Artistic Exploration of the
Final Frontier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Mark Hodges Virtual Reality in Training . . . . . . 45
Donna Coco A Web Developer's Dream . . . . . . . . 54
Diana Phillips Mahoney Launching a Construction Simulation . . 60
Anonymous Portfolio --- Prix Ars Electronica
winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Anonymous User Focus --- Simulating Eye Surgery.
Deep Impact's Tidal Wave Building.
Smithsonian Exhibits with CAD . . . . . 69
Anonymous Events and Resources . . . . . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Insight --- Magnetic Attraction . . . . 92
Anonymous Spotlight --- News and Products . . . . 10
Anonymous Market Outlook --- Moving to MCAD's
Midrange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Tech Watch --- A New Way to View
Volumes. Realistic Facial Animation . . 18
Tom Copeland and
Donna Coco Leaders of the Pack . . . . . . . . . . 22
Lane Boyd Collaborative Efforts . . . . . . . . . 33
Anonymous Taking Collaboration into Orbit . . . . 34
Anonymous International Airport Design . . . . . . 38
Anonymous DARPA Pushes for an Engineering Internet 42
Anonymous Collaborative 3D Simplifies Plant Design 44
Anonymous A STEP in the Right Direction . . . . . 48
Dave Blackburn and
Karen Moltenbrey Moonstruck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
B. J. Novitski Digital Design Reaches New Heights . . . 54
Anonymous Portfolio --- Art Lessons . . . . . . . 60
Anonymous User Focus --- Analyzing Jet Fighters.
Virtual World Cup Coverage. 3D Printers
in Toyland. Cyber Athlete Meets the
Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Anonymous Events and Resources . . . . . . . . . . 76
Anonymous Insight --- Mixing Oil and Water . . . . 84
Anonymous Departments --- Spotlight --- News and
Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Departments --- Market Outlook --- A
Hungry Animation Market . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Departments --- Tech Watch ---
Dissection on the Web. An Interface for
Large Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Departments --- Viewpoint --- Benchmark
Myths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Randall Warniers Every Picture Tells a Story . . . . . . 25
Barbara Robertson Antz-piration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
David Cohn Reversing the Process . . . . . . . . . 42
Mark Hodges It Just Feels Right . . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous Departments --- Portfolio --- Unlocking
the Subconscious . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Anonymous Departments --- User Focus --- Adding
Harmony to 3D. Creating Prehistoric
Sharks. CAD Toolmaker Turns User. How
Drafting Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Anonymous Departments --- Events and Resources . . 68
Anonymous Departments --- Insight --- Space
Bananas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76