Pacific Graphics '99
Description:... Annotation Seoul, Korea hosted the Pacific Graphics 99 Conference, a major Asian forum in the field. Culled from 81 submissions are 30 papers, as well as three extended abstracts for the keynote address and two invited talks. The keynoter, T. Kunii of Hosei U., Japan, frames the science of computer graphics. Session papers address: rendering, computer animation, geometric computation, swept volume, geometric compression, visualization, subdivision surfaces, surface reconstruction, virtual reality, geometric modeling, and geometric processing. Invited papers are on opportunities for subdivision-based multiresolution modeling, and modeling and rendering methods of clouds. Color plates (17 pages worth) enliven the proceedings. Future conferences are planned for Hong Kong (2000) and China (2001). Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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