***QuickNews
By Rob Glidden
KINETIX SEMINAR
Kinetix's (Multimedia) Developers pre-SIGGRAPH Conference will be on 8/4
in New Orleans. It is aimed at Autodesk Developer network members, 3D
Studio MAX Users, animators, game developers, motion picture
professionals, web page content developers, and videographers, and is
free to Autodesk Registered Developers.
Kathy Koepke, 415-507-5252, mailto:kathy.koepke@autodesk.com,
www.ktx.com
SOFTIMAGE SEMINAR
Softimage is offering technical seminars before SIGRAPH on 8/2 and 8/3 in
New Orleans: one day on Softimage SDKs (Mental Ray and SAAPHIRE), one day
on motion capture. $250 per day. (800) 206-3000,(612) 550-6390,
mailto:seminars@softimage.com
SF CHRON KICKS SGI
SF Chron's 6/27/96 "Engineers Exit Silicon Graphics" article paints a
sinking ship picture: 600 of 3000 engineers have left in the last 9
months. The article quotes Neil Trevett of 3Dlabs: "With a $5,000
Pentium-based machine and our Glint graphics card, users have the
functionality of a $30,000 to $40,000 workstation". If you have some
empty SGI blue boxes there may be a business opportunity here.
VRML STUFF
Still trying to grok VRML? Check Richard Tilmann's MeshMart, which posts
a regular VRML update at http://cedar.cic.net/~rtilmann/mm/vrmlup.htm.
More VRML, academic bent: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, July
1996, Karen Whitehouse on VRML: "Building Cyberspace" and "VRML Adds a
New Dimension to Web Browsing".
www.computer.org/pubs/cg&a/cg&a.htm
SNOBS BASH COMPUTER ART
Architectural Digest, July 1996 - "Are Computer Graphics Running Amok" by
Nicholas von Hoffman generally bemoans the new computer ways:
"photoshopped" is, well, tacky.
OOPS
Josh White noted we got phone and web site wrong for Computer Game
Artists in WAVE #601: should be 510-420-0454, http://www.vectorg.com/cga.
Detective-skilled artists still managed to track CGA down.
WRITERS GUILD
Looking for a writer for interactive media? Check Writers Guild of
America, whose new web site is at http://www.wga.org.
Wave Issue 9602 7/3/96 Article 1-01