Volume 40, number 2

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Cover — by westman — last modified 30 November 2006 10:38 PM

Focus: Education - Finding Your Way In Computer Graphics

Table of Contents — by westman — last modified 30 November 2006 10:38 PM

ToC Volume 40, Number 2, August

From the Editor — by westman — last modified 30 November 2006 10:38 PM

Finding Your Way in Computer Graphics

High School Graduate Refines Gyromouse Interface For Virtual Reality; Pre-teens Play Crucial Role — by westman — last modified 30 November 2006 10:38 PM

Matt Duncan was a graduating senior at Yorktown High School in Arlington Virginia when he visited our university for a three-week for-credit internship. The goal was for him to learn about 3D graphic design and interaction design while helping us develop our Virtual Reality (VR) technology. The result was beneficial for everyone. He learned how to build virtual environments and to compare and refine VR navigation and selection techniques though collaboration with users. We got a virtual obstacle course for VR navigation training and a very intuitive interaction for VR navigation with the Gyromouse.

Ben Fry Finding Methods of Visualizing Data Accepts Nierenberg Chair of Design at Carnegie Mellon — by westman — last modified 30 November 2006 10:38 PM

The Carnegie Mellon School of Design has appointed graphic designer Ben Fry as the Nierenberg Chair of Design in its School of Design for 2006-2007. Widely regarded as the one of most prestigious appointments in design education in the U.S., the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design’s Nierenberg Chair of Design is a visiting professorship at established through the generosity of Carnegie Mellon alumnus and Emeritus Life Trustee Theodore D. Nierenberg.

The Animated Short – A Student’s Perspective — by westman — last modified 30 November 2006 10:38 PM

To the fledgling, painfully green animation students of the world, the universe of film making and production oriented projects can seem profoundly mysterious and annoyingly inaccessible...and in the real world, “working man” sense of things...it is. It was to my surprise, honor, hint of fear, and “helping” of confusion then, when, upon learning of a recent victory of The National Team Animation Competition (sponsored by HP and Saytek) my Department Director at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Hans Westman, asked myself and another fellow teammate to write an article talking about the production experience as a whole.