IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Currently living and working in Toronto, cover artist Diane Vetere studied studio art and was primarily a painter at first. When she and her husband purchased Apple's first Macintosh computer, everything changed. Vetere explains the creation this issue'...

Jane Wilhelms, a well known researcher in computer graphics died of cancer on 26 March 2005. Brian Barsky discusses Janeýs unusual educational background and her career in graphics.

Researchers have recently investigated the problem of rendering the contact forces and torques between 3D virtual objects. This problem is known as 6-DOF haptic rendering, as the computed output includes both 3-DOF forces and 3-DOF torques. This article ...

The author presents a revised and extended version of the top unsolved problems of information visualization that he outlined in an IEEE Visualization 2004 panel. These problems are not necessarily imposed by technical barriers; rather, they are ...

Most people think of using large-display installations for highly technical visualization work such as scientific visualization of a large data set, process control, or technical design. In the past several years, researchers at Alias have investigated ...

The emergence of large displays holds the promise of basking us in rich and dynamic visual landscapes of information, art, and entertainment. How will our viewing and interaction experiences change when large displays are introduced in our workplace, ...

The Princeton Scalable Display Wall project explores how to build a high-quality, large-format display system with inexpensive commodity components and to effectively utilize it in a collaborative environment. The goal is to develop techniques, software ...

The canvas portals framework supplies alternative-view-based space-management techniques on large displays. After demonstrating how this framework encompasses existing techniques, the article describes its use in creating three view and space management ...

As large displays become more affordable, researchers are investigating the effects on productivity, and techniques for making the large-display user experience more effective. Recent work has demonstrated significant productivity benefits, but has also ...

Humanýcomputer interaction using large-format displays is an active area of research that focuses on how humans can better work with computers or other machines. For this to happen, there must be an enabling technology that creates the interface between ...

Casual piling of paper-based media during traditional tabletop collaboration is an important practice that helps coordinate task and group interactions. Previous research has shown that the ability to move piles around on a table plays a critical role ...

Texture mapping, bump mapping, and displacement maps are central instruments in computer graphics aiming to achieve photorealistic renderings. In all these techniques, the mapping is typically one-to-one and every surface location is assigned a single ...

Representing color by three numbers, whether physical values, such as the colors of a computer display, or perceptual values, such as the CIE tristimulus values, is fundamental to the science and industry of color. It is used implicitly in computer ...

Editor's Note:As our readership diversifies and computer graphics technologies and applications increasingly penetrate into many areas of research, education, society, industry, and government, the breadth of software and hardware products that can be ...