From mibaraki@cgribm.UWaterloo.ca (Motomu Ibaraki x2544)
Subject: background colour
Message-ID: <C1s9KB.Mv7@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Keywords: postscript 
Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 18:48:10 GMT
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Hi!

I would like to change the background colour of my object from
black to white on printed paper.

I have used 'geometry viewer, camera, background colour'
and change the colour to white, but when I printed out the background
the colour was not white... it was gray. (I used postscript format)
Is there any way to get "real" white colour? (the same colour as
paper, that is, no printing of background)

thank you

    Motomu Ibaraki

  mibaraki@cgribm.UWaterloo.ca
 
  Waterloo Centre for Groundwater Research
  University of Waterloo
  Waterloo, Ontario
  Canada   N2L 3G1


From rel@mtu.edu (Robert Landsparger)
Subject: UCD, Geometries and color
Message-ID: <1993Feb1.212954.697@mtu.edu>
Followup-To: rel@mtu.edu
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 21:29:54 GMT
Lines: 36

This weekend I installed AVS4.0 on our Sparc 10 and it is nice.  Now
the fun part.  I have some digital elevation information, and some
color information for the area.

The verticies are labeled vx and the cells cx.

	v1    v2    v3
           c1    c2
	v4    v5    v6 
           c3    c4  
	v7    v8    v9 

I have created a UCD file to represent this, and have cell data
that I can apply to each cell that will indicate the color
I want the cell (square) to be.  I've got a surface up, and
it is using the default color scheme.  I want to add my color
to each of the cells.  This is the part that I am having prolems
with.  Can someone suggest a network that will do this?

The original data is in a binary format that I convert to UCD
format:

	DEM:	420*380 interger-data
	red:	420*380 byte-data
	green:	420*380 byte-data
	blue:	420*380 byte-data


Thanks,
	rel
--

-- 
= Robert E. Landsparger, rel@mtu.edu
= Department of Geology  - OFFICE (906) 487-2167 / FAX 487-3371
= My comments do not represent those of my employer.


From katie@doppler.ncsc.org (Katie Mohrfeld)
Subject: AVS93 Advance Program
Message-ID: <C1sL05.KFE@doppler.ncsc.org>
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 22:55:16 GMT


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			Visualization.  
			   Imaging.  
	              Computer Graphics.
****************************************************************


		INTERESTED IN SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION??

The following information is the complete preliminary advance
registration for the "2nd Annual International AVS User Group Conference"
which is being held May 24-26, 1993 at the WALT DISNEY WORLD
Dolphin Hotel at Lake Buena Vista, Florida.  It includes over 100 lectures,
tutorials, workshops and panels in Scientific Visualization using the
AVS (Application Visualization System) environment.  Users from around
the world will present their work in six different tracks:

Biomedical/Medical
Chemistry/Molecular Modeling
Geographical Information Systems (GIS)/ and Remote Sensing
Earth Sciences
General Tracks A and B that include;
	Distributed computing
	Parallelization
	Holographic display
	Sonification
	CFD and FE
	AVS in manufacturing
	and many other topics 

In addition, there will be a video theater of AVS users work.

The Exhibition floor will be technology oriented and provide
examples of hardware and software using AVS.  Make sure to see
VISION DOME, a Virtual Reality environment that is the central 
demonstration of our "Emerging Technologies" exhibit.

This information is also available in hardcopy and in
electronic format on the International AVS Center's public domain
ftp site.  To get an online copy, ftp to 128.109.178.23 and
login as anonymous, give your email address as the password and
cd to the avs93 directory.  For ASCII format, type ascii and then
type get AVS93_prog.txt.  We hope to have PostScript format available
soon.  To get hardcopy, send email to avs93@ncsc.org or write to:

	International AVS Center
	3021 Cornwallis Road
	Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
	Phone (919) 248 1182
	FAX   (919) 248 1101

************************************************************************
**A detailed listing of the titles to be presented is included below.**
			COMPLETE PROGRAM FOLLOWS
************************************************************************

AVS '93, the 2nd Annual International AVS User Group 
Conference and Exhibition, is presented by the 
International AVS Center and the North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center (NCSC), a division of MCNC, in 
cooperation with the AVS Consortium.  The AVS Consortium 
consists of Advanced Visual Systems Inc., CONVEX Computer 
Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-
Packard Company, IBM, Kubota Pacific Company Inc., and 
SUN Microsystems Inc.

AVS '93 provides a one-of-a-kind, international forum 
for AVS users and developers to share information and 
exchange ideas for the advancement of AVS.  The conference 
features technology-oriented exhibitions, tutorials, 
workshops, lectures, panels, and video screenings.  
Conference topics include computational chemistry, 
computational fluid dynamics, earth sciences, education 
and research, geographic information systems and remote 
sensing, image analysis, medical imaging, molecular 
modeling, oil and gas exploration, scientific visualization, 
structural analysis, and more.

Proceedings

MCNC publishes the proceedings volume for distribution to 
AVS '93 registrants at the conference.  Extra copies can be 
purchased for $50 after the conference.

Program Committee

Program Chair 
DAVID BENNETT,
International AVS Center/North Carolina Supercomputing 
Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Co-Chairs  
KATHERINE MOHRFELD,
International AVS Center /North Carolina Supercomputing 
Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

STEVE THORPE, 
International AVS Center/North Carolina Supercomputing 
Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Medical/Biomedical Chair
MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Ann Arbor, MI

Earth Sciences Chair
THERESA RHYNE, Martin Marietta/
U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC

Geographic Information Systems Chair 
CHUCK HANSEN,
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 

General Track A Chair
TOM PALMER, Cray Research/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Chemistry and Molecular Modeling Chair
DOUGLAS SMITH, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 

General Track B Chair
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California at Irvine, 
Office of Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Sessions

Panels

Panelists offer candid and provocative discussion 
and debate on trends, controversies, and viewpoints in 
the visualization industry and address a broad range of 
AVS topics, including virtual reality, packet video, and 
education.

Lectures and Workshops

International experts from industry and academia 
present lectures and conduct hands-on workshops on 
emerging visualization techniques and AVS uses in such 
areas as medical imaging, molecular modeling, geographic 
information systems, and chemistry. 

Note:  Workshops require basic AVS user knowledge.

AVS Video Review Theatre

The AVS Video Review Theatre showcases everyday 
examples of completed works and works in progress by 
AVS users from around the world.  Questions and 
submissions should be forwarded to Steve Thorpe, 
NCSC, Post Office Box 12889, 3021 Cornwallis Road, 
Research Triangle Park, NC  27709-2889,  telephone 
919-248-1161, email avs@ncsc.org.  

Special-Focus Groups

Special-focus groups bring together people with 
mutual interests to meet, exchange ideas, and share and 
compare information on a wide variety of visualization 
topics.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide hands-on training by experts who 
offer beginning and basic courses on AVS use as well as 
how to use third-party, AVS-compatible software.  
Tutorials require basic knowledge of AVS except 
courses in the AVS Animator, the Geometry Viewer, the 
Network Editor, and the Overview of AVS 5.

Exhibition

The exhibition features technology-sharing demonstrations 
by the AVS Consortium members and other AVS product-
related vendors and users.  The exhibition is held Monday 
and Tuesday, May 24 and 25, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
and Wednesday, May 26, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 
Exhibition admission is included as part of the AVS 
93 registration fee.  Tickets to attend only the exhibition 
may be purchased for $25 at the 
AVS 93 registration booth.

For additional  information and a copy of the exhibitor 
prospectus, contact Ann Cadran, Conference Associate, 
MCNC, Post Office Box 12889, 3021 Cornwallis Road, 
Research Triangle Park, NC  27709.
Telephone:  919-248-1432
Fax:  919-248-1445 
Email: cadran@mcnc.org


********************************************************************  
         AVS '93 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: SUBJECT TO CHANGE
********************************************************************

Medical/Biomedical and Image Synthesis

Chair: MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Ann Arbor, MI

Lectures

Design and Simulation of 3-D Conformal Radiotherapy Using AVS 
(#ML9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Radiation Oncology, Ann Arbor, MI

New Methods for Visualizing the Structure of Biological Molecules 
(#ML10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
DAN PEISACH, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Visualizing Physiological Data 
(#ML3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
STEPHEN PRICE, Loma Linda University Medical Center, 
Loma Linda, CA

Interactive Data Exploration and Telecollaboration in 
Biomedicine Using AVS 
(#ML4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday) GUDRAN J. KLINKER, 
Cambridge Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment 
Corporation, Cambridge, MA

Hyperspectral Imaging Spectrometer Data Analysis Using AVS 
(#TL9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
JEFF COCHAND, TASC, Reading, MA

Visualization of Air Flow of a Rats Nasal Airway Using AVS 
and FIDAP 
(#TL10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
JULIA S. KIMBELL, Chemical Industry Institute of 
Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, NC

Building Medical Imaging Applications Using Khoros Modules 
Ported into AVS
(#TL3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday) JOHN RASURE AND TOM SAUER, 
The Khoros Group, University of New Mexico, Department 
of EECE, Albuquerque, NM

AVS and Radiotherapy Treatment Planning  
(#TL4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
E. LOREN BUHLE JR., University of Pennsylvania, School of 
Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 

Holographic Display of Medical Image Data 
(#WL9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday) MICHAEL DALTON, Voxel, 
Laguna Hills, CA

Simultaneous Usage of Homologous Points, Lines, and Planes for 
Optimal 3-D Linear Registration of Multimodality Imaging Data 
(#WL10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
GREGG LEICHTMAN, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, The Laser 
Research Center, Los Angeles, CA

3-D Image Segmentation in MR Images 
(#WL2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
LLOYD MYERS, University of Washington, School of 
Medicine, Department of Biological Structures, 
Seattle, WA

Workshop

Visualization and Analysis of Multidimensional Biomedical 
Images Using ANALYZE 
(#MW9-1, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; 
#TW9-1, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Tuesday; 
#WW9-1, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday) 
RICHARD ROBB AND DENNY HANSEN, 
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.
  
Earth Sciences

Chair: THERESA RHYNE, Martin Marietta/  
U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC

Lectures

Developing an AVS-Based Training Program for Environmental 
Researchers at the U.S. EPA
(#ML9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
THERESA RHYNE, Martin Marietta/
U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC

Basin Modeling with AVS (#ML10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
ANNETTE WALSH, Mobil Exploration and Producing 
Technical Center, Dallas, TX

Flood Plane Visualization for the Snake River Plain 
(#ML3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
L. ERIC GREENWADE, Visualization and Imaging Team, Idaho 
National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID

Circulation and Plume Tracking in the Massachusetts Bay 
(#ML4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
EVELYN WRIGHT AND RICHARD P. SIGNELL, 
U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA

UAMworld:  A User-Friendly Distributed Environment for 
Execution Analysis and Visualization of the Urban Airshed Model 
(#TL9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday) STEVE CHALL, 
North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC 

The Weather on Jupiter 
(#TL10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
TIM DOWLING, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Science, 
Cambridge, MA

Use of AVS in Meteorology 
(#TL3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
BILL BAUMAN, U.S. Air Force/ North Carolina State 
University, Raleigh, NC

A User's Perspective of AVS in an Engineering Analysis 
Environment 
(#TL4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
MIKE GLASS, Sandia National Laboratories, Computational 
Fluid Dynamics, Albuquerque, NM

Airshed Photochemical Model 
(#WL9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
CARY MCGREGOR, California Air Resources Board, 
Sacramento, CA

Atmospheric Science Using AVS 
(#WL10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
PHILIP C. CHEN, Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, CA

Visualizing the Influence of Building Projects in Environmentally 
Sensitive Areas 
(#WL2-2, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
HARALD MAYER, Joanneum Research Institute for 
Information Systems, Graz, Austria

Workshop

SurfCube 
(#MW9-2, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TW2-2, 2 - 4:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WW9-2, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday)
TIM HAYS, Landmark Graphics, Houston, TX
Note: Basic knowledge of AVS is required.
  
Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) 
and Remote Sensing

Chair: CHUCK HANSEN, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, NM 

Lectures

PAMAP-GIS in AVS 
(#ML9-3, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
PAMAP Technologies Corporation, 
Victoria, BC, Canada

Database System Management for the Sequoia Project Using 
Postgres and AVS 
(#ML10-3, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
MIKE KOCHEVAR, Digital Equipment Corporation  Sequoia 
Project, San Diego Supercomputing Center, La Jolla, CA

Natural Disaster Modeling in the Geological Sciences to 
Facilitate Public Policy Decision-Making 
(#ML3-3, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
ERIC FROST; San Diego State University, Computer 
Imaging, Visualization, and Animation Center, San Diego, CA 

Building Remote Sensing Applications Using Khoros 
Modules Ported into AVS
(#ML4-3, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
JOHN RASURE AND TOM SAUER, 
The Khoros Group, University of New Mexico, Department 
of EECE, Albuquerque, NM

GIS and Visualization 
(#TL9-3, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
WILLIAM IVEY, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Parallel Processing Support for GIS 
(#TL10-3, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
WOJTEK FURMANSKI, 
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Using AVS to Further NASA Space Science Research and 
Mission Planning 
(#TL3-3, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
DAVID MCNABB, University of Maryland, Advanced 
Visualization Laboratory, College Park, MD 

Environmental Use of a Laser Range Finder and AVS 
(#TL4-3, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
DON JONES AND ERIN THORNTEN, 
Battelle-Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, WA

Modeling with Artisan in AVS 
(#WL9-3, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
MIKE BONNAIN, SET Technology, Boulder, CO

On the Use of 3D in GIS Using AVS 
(#WL10-3, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday) 
JESSE DRIVER, Kubota Pacific, Santa Clara, CA

Workshop

GIS Visualization Using 
PAMAP in AVS 
(#MW2-2, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Monday;  #TW9-2, 9 - 11:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WW2-2, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)
PAMAP Technologies Corporation, 
Victoria, BC, Canada
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.
  
General A

Chair: TOM PALMER 
Cray Research/North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Lectures

Sonification in AVS 
(#ML9-4, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
BRIAN KAPLAN, Indiana University, Center for Innovative 
Computer Applications, Bloomington, IN

Visualization of a Simulation Catalog of Numerical 
Hydrodynamics 
(#ML10-4, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
SHAWN MEHAN, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

CLI Hints and Tips 
(#ML3-4, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
HOWARD WATKINS, Intera Information Technologies Ltd., 
Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom

Distributed Methodologies for Animation Using AVS 
(#ML4-4, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
LARRY DIAMOND, Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer 
Science, Austin, TX

Experiences in Developing AVS-Layered Applications 
(#TL9-4, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
RALPH FOLZ, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates Inc., 
Concord, MA

The Practical Use of AVS to Aid the Visualization of 3-D 
Semiconductor Device Simulation 
(#TL10-4, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
Jonathan Cox, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, DEPARTMENT OF 
COMPUTER SCIENCE, MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM

Optical Device Modeling:  Debugging and Visualizing with AVS 
(#TL3-4, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
PASCAL LANDI, Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Summit, NJ

Visualization on Massively Parallel Computers Using AVS 
(#TL4-4, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
CHUCK HANSEN, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Advanced 
Computing Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM	

AVS Functional Visualization:  Extracting Algebraic Expressions 
from Distributed Numbers 
(#WL9-4, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
RON KRIZ, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
University, Blacksburg, VA

Interactive Simulations of Focus Wave Modes Using AVS 
(#WL10-4,10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
JOHN SHALF, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
University, Blacksburg, VA

Finite Element Data Visualization Using UCD 
(#WL2-4, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
LARRY SCHOOF, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

Scientific Animation Tips-n-Tricks 
(#WL3-4, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
CHRIS LANDRETH, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Workshop

Importing Your Data into and Visualization Techniques for 
AVS Data Formats 
(#MW9-3, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday topic uses UCD data; #TW2-3,  
2 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday topic uses field data; #WW9-3,  9 
- 11:45 a.m. Wednesday topic uses chemistry data
MARY STEPHENSON AND JON VAGI, 
North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC
Note: This workshop is designed for intermediate users and is 
not suitable for beginners.
  
Chemistry and
Molecular Modeling

Chair: DOUGLAS SMITH, 
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH  

Lectures

Quantum Chemistry Using the AVS Chemistry Viewer 
(#ML9-5, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
DOUGLAS SMITH, University of Toledo, Department of 
Chemistry, Toledo, OH

Using AVS as an Internal Design Tool:  Prototyping Code for 
Future Versions of SPARTAN
(#ML10-5, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
JOE LEONARD, Wavefunction Inc., Irvine, CA

Visualizing Molecular Orbital Generated Dynamic Reaction 
Processes with AVS 
(#ML3-5, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
GEORGE FAMINI, ERDEC, Aberdeen Proving Ground, 
Aberdeen, MD

AVS and CFD in the Chemical Process Industries 
(#ML4-5, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
MICHAEL RANGITSCH, Dow Chemical USA, Plaquemine, LA

Precision Engineering Visualization with AVS
(#TL9-5, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
KEN FLURCHICK, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

SAVS:  An Integrated Approach to Data Acquisition, 
Manipulation, and Visualization 
(#TL10-5, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
Edward P. Szuszczewicz, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS 
INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, MCLEAN, VA

AVS in Crystallography and Molecular Biology 
(#TL3-5, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
LYNN TEN EYCK, University of California at San Diego, 
Department of Chemistry, La Jolla, CA

AVS for Molecular Modeling 
(#TL4-5, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
MIKE PIQUE AND BRUCE DUNCAN, 
The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Molecular 
Biology, La Jolla, CA

AVS and the Naval Research Laboratory 
(#WL9-5, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
ROBERT ROSENBERG, Naval Research Laboratory, 
Washington, DC

Resin Transfer Mold Process Simulation Using AVS 
(#WL10-5, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
DOUG MACRAE, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
University, Blacksburg, VA

Workshops

Introduction to the Chemistry Viewer 
(#MW9-4, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TW9-4, 9 - 11:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WW9-4, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday)
UPUL OBEYSEKARE, Science and Visualization Laboratory, 
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, and MARK 
BENZEL, 
Molecular Simulations Inc.,  Sunnyvale, CA
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.

Advanced Features of the Chemistry Viewer 
(#MW2-4, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; #TW2-4, 2 - 4:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WW2-4, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)
UPUL OBEYSEKARE, Science and Visualization Laboratory, 
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, and MARK 
BENZEL, Molecular Simulations Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.
  
General B

Chair: STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California 
at Irvine, Office of Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Lectures

IDL: The Interactive Data Language for AVS 
(#ML9-6, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
DAVID STERN, Research Systems Inc., Boulder, CO

Approaches to Interapplication Communications for AVS 
(#ML10-6, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
DAVE MCNABB, University of Maryland, Advanced 
Visualization Laboratory, College Park, MD

Visual Correlation of Lightning Strikes and BT Alarms 
(#ML3-6, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
GRAHAM WALKER, BT Laboratories, Visualization Systems 
Research, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, United Kingdom

Visualization in Scientific Computing: Uses in University 
Education 
(#ML4-6, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California at Irvine, 
Office of Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Handling Very Large Structural Models 
(#TL9-6, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
KEITH REDNER, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates 
Inc., Concord, MA

The Nature of Scientific Visualization 
(#TL10-6, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
ALAN BARNUM-SCRIVENER, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., 
Laguna Hills, CA

Multidimensional Visualization with AVS Applied to 
Semiconductor Simulation 
(#TL3-6, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
FRANKLIN BODINE, National Center for Computational 
Electronics, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Preserving Your Model Integrity 
(#TL4-6, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
KEITH REDMAN, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates 
Inc., Concord, MA

Dataflow Networks for Multilevel Simulation of Industrial 
Problems 
(#WL9-6, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
MENG LEAN, XEROX Corporation, North Tarrytown, NY

Architecture of the AVS Kernel:  Understanding How to Get 
Maximum Efficiency from Your Network 
(#WL10-6, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
JEFF VROOM, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., Waltham, MA

Nondestructive Testing Using AVS 
(#WL2-6, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
SUSAN B. WARMBRODT, Failure Analysis Associates, Inc., 
Menlo Park, CA

2nd Annual User Group Meeting 
(#WL3-6, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California, Office of 
Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Workshop

IDL:  The Interactive Data Language for AVS 
(#MW2-3, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; #TW9-3, 9 - 11:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WW2-3 2 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)  
DAVID FANNING, Research Systems Inc., Boulder, CO 
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Tutorials A

MAPLE5 and AVS 
(#MT9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday; #TT10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. 
Tuesday; #WT11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday) BENTON LEONG, 
Waterloo Maple Software, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and LYLE 
WIEDEMAN, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA  
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Image and Volume Data Processing Under AVS  Medical, MRI, 
GIS, Remote Sensing, and Oil and Gas Exploration 
(#MT4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; #TT9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. 
Tuesday; #WT10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
STEVE BONG AND BOB KING, Crystal Image Technologies, 
Huntsville, AL
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Theoretical Crystallography with AVS 
(#MT11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TT2-1, 2 - 2:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
DON JONES AND ERIN THORNTEN, Battelle-Pacific Northwest 
Laboratory, Richland, WA
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

The Rational Engineering Visualizer 
(#MT2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday; #TT3-1, 3 - 3:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)
KEITH REDNER, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates 
Inc., Concord, MA
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Introduction to the AVS Animator 
(#MT3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday; #TT4-1, 4 - 4:45 
p.m. Tuesday;  #TT5-1, 5 - 5:45 p.m. Tuesday; 
#TT6-1, 6 - 6:45 p.m. Tuesday; #WT9-1, 9 -9:45 a.m. 
Wednesday) HAM LORD, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., 
Waltham, MA

Mathematica and AVS 
(#MT4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; 
#TT9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT10-1, 10 - 10:45 
a.m. Wednesday) MATHEMATICA, Wolfram Research Inc., 
Champaign, IL
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Introduction to the Geometry Viewer 
(#TT5-2, 5 - 5:45 p.m. Tuesday; #TT6-2, 6 - 6:45 p.m. 
Tuesday)
KEN FLURCHICK, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC  

Tutorials B

Applications of AVS in the Earth Sciences at Oxford 
(#MT9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday; #TT10-2, 10 - 10:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WT11-2, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday)
KEITH REFSON, Oxford University, Department of Earth 
Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Multipolarization Workstation (MPWS) Software 
(#MT10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday; #TT11-2, 11 - 
11:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT2-2, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
CHRIS WILLIS, GEC-Marconi Research Center, Gread 
Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Writing Code in C Using the AVS Module Generator 
(#MT11-2, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TT2-2, 2 - 2:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
LARRY GELBERG, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., Waltham, MA
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Overview of AVS 5.0 
(#MT2-2, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday; #TT3-2, 3 - 3:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
HAM LORD OR LARRY GELBERG, Advanced Visual Systems 
Inc., Waltham, MA 

Introduction to the Network Editor 
(#MT3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m Monday; #TT4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. 
Tuesday; #TT8-2, 8 - 8:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT4-2, 
4 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday; #WT8-2, 
8 - 8:45 a.m. Wednesday)
STEVE THORPE, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC 

How to Visualize Your CFD Data Using AVS-FLOW 
(#MT10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday; #TT11-1, 11 - 
11:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
TARO ISHIGURO, ADAM NET LTD., Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, 
Tokyo, Japan
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 


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				PANELS
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AVS as an Educational and Instructional Tool 
(#MP9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California at Irvine, 
Irvine, CA

Future Technology Needs for Medical Imaging 
(#MP10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Radiation Oncology, Ann Arbor, MI

Virtual Reality 
(#MP11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday)
DAVID BENNETT, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Data Management 
(#MP2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday)
TERRY MYERSON, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC 

Khoros:  A Visual Software Development Environment 
(#MP3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
JOHN RASURE AND TOM SAUER, 
The Khoros Group, University of New Mexico, Department 
of EECE, Albuquerque, NM

Future Directions and Features for AVS 
(#MP4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
Dave Kamins, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., Waltham, MA

Parallel Computing with AVS 
(#TP9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
TERRY MYERSON, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Distributed Computing with AVS 
(#TP10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
TERRY MYERSON, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Optimal Configurations for AVS Hardware 
(#TP11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Tuesday)
DAVID BENNETT, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

AVS Developers and Porters Panel 
(#TP2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Tuesday)
STEVE THORPE, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Reception and Keynote Address

Because you'll need plenty of time to experience the 
many exciting attractions in the Lake Buena Vista area, AVS 
'93 presents only one evening of conference activities.  
>From 5:15 to 7 p.m. on Monday, May 24, the AVS Gala
Reception features a magnificent variety of appetizing hors 
doeuvres and canapes guaranteed to satisfy the most 
discriminating taste.  The receptions focal point is the 
keynote address, from 5:45 - 6:15 p.m.  At 7 p.m., 
activities move on to the first AVS Video Review Theatre.

Dr. Larry Smarr, Director of the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications will be the keynote speaker.
Dr. Smarr, age 43, earned his bachelor's and 
master's degrees from the University of 
Missouri, a master's at Stanford University, and 
a doctorate from the University of Texas at 
Austin  (all are in Physics).  He conducted 
research while at Stanford and Texas, and later 
at Princeton and Yale universities.  For the 
three years before he joined the University of 
Illinois faculty in 1979, Smarr was a Junior 
Fellow in the Harvard University Society of 
Fellows.  An internationally recognized 
astrophysicist, Dr. Smarr has conducted 
observational, theoretical, and computational 
based research, resulting in the publication of 
over fifty scientific papers.  He currently is 
actively involved in research on the dynamics 
of black holes in general relativity.

Dr. Smarr has been one of the pioneers in the 
movement to dramatically increase the number 
of academic and industrial researchers using 
supercomputers to attack critical problems in 
research, development and manufacturing.  In 
1983, he initiated the first proposal to the 
National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a 
national supercomputer center.  He worked 
actively with Congress in 1984 to assure 
passage of the legislation which authorized the 
current set of NSF supercomputer centers and 
the NSFnet national network.  In 1985, Dr. 
Smarr became the Director of the National 
Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) 
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign (UIUC).  Since then, NCSA has been 
a pioneer in coupling desktop computing and 
scientific visualization with the leading edge of 
supercomputing.

Smarr is a Fellow of the American Physical 
Society and in 1990 he received the Franklin 
Institute's Delmer S. Fahrney Medal for 
Leadership in Science or Technology.  His views 
on supercomputers and science have been 
quoted widely in publications including the 
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, 
Business Week, Science, and Science News.  
Most recently, he has co-authored with William 
Kaufmann III, the book, Supercomputing and 
the Transformation of Science.  He travels 
extensively to give lectures on computational 
science and technology and to attend 
conferences and workshops in a  wide variety 
of disciplines, both in this country  and 
internationally.

AVS Video Review Theatre

The AVS '93 Committee is collecting AVS user videos 
from around the world and assembling a review of users
most interesting work representing every discipline.  This 
hour of AVS videos dramatically demonstrates how AVS is 
being used by others.  To contribute work for this showing, 
contact Steve Thorpe, International AVS Center/North 
Carolina Supercomputing Center, Post Office Box 12889, 
3021 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC 
27709-2889, telephone 919-248-1161, email 
avs@ncsc.org.

Advance Registration

The conference registration form at the back of this 
booklet (or a copy) should be used to submit advance 
registration for AVS '93.  Early registrations postmarked 
on or before March 1, 1993, receive a $75 discount.  The 
advance registration deadline is May 14.  All  registrations 
must be accompanied by payment.   After May 14, 1993, 
registrations must be done on-site.  The hands-on 
workshops and tutorials have limited space and may not be 
available to late registrants.

On-Site Registration

On-site registration is Sunday and Monday, May 23 and 
24, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN.
Conference staff will be available on-site at all times 
to assist attendees with questions. Late registrants may be 
put on waiting lists for workshops and tutorials.

Registration Discounts

Member Discount:  Each AVS User Group member qualifies 
for a member discount.

Student Discount:  To qualify for a student discount, a 
registrant must submit a copy of a current ACM or IEEE 
student membership card or a copy of a current student 
identification card.

Government Discount:  To qualify for a government discount, a 
registrant must submit a copy of a current government 
identification card.

Nonprofit Discount:  To qualify for a nonprofit discount, 
registrants must provide a copy of their organization's 
501(c)(3) status from the IRS. 

Payment

A check, money order, or valid MasterCard or Visa card 
authorization must accompany all registrations.  Checks or 
money orders must be in U.S. funds drawn on U.S. banks and 
made payable to MCNC.  Send payment and conference 
registration form to:

MCNC
Post Office Box 12889
3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park
NC 27709-2889   
USA   
Attention:  
Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey
Fax:  919-248-1445

Registration will not be valid until payment is received.  

The registration fee covers participation in  all exhibits, all 
panels, all lectures, up to two tutorials and one workshop; 
one copy of the workshop proceedings; all registration 
materials; refreshments during breaks; AVS Video Review 
Theatre; and an evening reception with canapes and hors 
doeuvres.  Tutorials and workshops are subject to 
availability due to limited seating and limited commitment 
of workstations.  Attendees may participate in additional 
workshops and tutorials at the rate of $150 per workshop 
and $50 per tutorial. The first 200 registrants receive a 
complimentary AVS '93 mug. There is no reduced fee for 
attending only part of the conference.

Refunds

	To receive a 100% refund, a written request must be 
received before May 1, 1993.  Send written requests to:

MCNC
Post Office Box 12889
3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park 
NC 27709-2889
USA
Attention:  
Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey

	No verbal requests for refunds will be accepted. No 
refunds will be issued after May 1, 1993.

Airline Information

Orlando International Airport accommodates most 
major airlines that serve the area surrounding the WALT 
DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN.  Service carriers include Delta, 
American, Bahamasair, British Airways, Continental, 
Iceland, KLM, Northwest, Sky Bus, Trump Shuttle, TWA, 
United, USAir, and Virgin Atlantic.

Local Transportation

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN is located at 1500 
EPCOT Resorts Boulevard in Lake Buena Vista, two miles 
southwest of the Interstate 4 and State Route 536 
intersection.  Rental cars are available at Orlando 
International Airport.  In addition, buses depart the airport 
for the WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN every half hour 
with fares of $12.50 for adults and $9.50 for children ages 
4-14.  Taxi fare from the airport to the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN is approximately $25.

WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN

All AVS '93 events are held at the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN, a year-round resort in the center of the 
WALT DISNEY WORLD Resort between EPCOT Center and The 
Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park.  The hotel is located near 
Typhoon Lagoon, Pleasure Island, and the MAGIC KINGDOM 
Park.  The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN has seven 
restaurants and four lounges offering an extraordinary 
variety of American, Chinese, and Italian cuisine.
AVS '93 has a reserved block of discounted rooms at the 
WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN.

Daily rates for single or double:  $130
Government, student, or nonprofit:  $100 single, $120 double
(current and valid identification must be presented to the
hotel in order to receive these rates)
Extra-person charge per room:  $15
Children under age 18:  Free with parents (using existing 
bedding)
Sales tax:  6%
Resort tax:  4%
Check-in time:  3 p.m.
Check-out time:  11 a.m.
Payment:  Personal checks, money orders, or valid credit 
card

Please make reservations directly with the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN by sending in the hotel registration form in the 
back of this booklet, by fax at 407-934-4710, or by mail.  
Please indicate your affiliation with MCNC's International 
AVS User Group Conference and Exhibition.

Accommodations for Guests with Disabilities

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN has 43 accessible 
rooms designed for guests with limited mobility, including 
guests in wheelchairs.  For more information on special-
needs accommodations at the WALT DISNEY WORLD 
DOLPHIN, telephone 1-800-227-1500.

Spouse/Family Program

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN offers numerous 
services to assist guests with transportation and admission 
to a variety of attractions such as the EPCOT Center, 
Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park, Typhoon Lagoon, 
Pleasure Island, the MAGIC KINGDOM Park, River Country, 
and Discovery Island.

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN itself contains 
numerous boutiques and gift shops and features the 
following amenities.

 	Supervised youth programs
 	Game rooms
 	Health studio
 	Grotto pool
 	White-sand beach
 	Tennis courts
 	Volleyball courts
 	Sailboats and paddle boats
 	Nearby golf courses

Further details are available through the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN reservations desk, telephone 1-800-
227-1500.

Area Attractions

	The seven theme lands of the WALT DISNEY WORLD 
Magic Kingdom Park are designed to bring out the child in 
everyone.  Main Street U.S.A. is a re-creation of turn-of-
the-century America.  Adventureland features a jungle 
cruise and an encounter with pirates.  Other areas are 
Frontierland, Liberty Square, Fantasyland, Tomorrowland, 
and Mickeys Starland.  All feature theme rides and shows.
	The newest addition to the WALT DISNEY WORLD theme 
park family is the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park.  
Visitors can stroll Hollywood Boulevard as it was in the 
magical '30s and '40s, and then take the fabulous Backstage 
Studio Tour with Catastrophe Canyon, a special effects 
adventure.  The Magic of Disney Animation features a walk 
through the fascinating world of animation.  Disney-MGM 
Studios Theme Park offers exciting opportunities to see 
actual movies and television shows being made, from 
filming to postproduction.
	WALT DISNEY WORLD attractions also feature enough 
golf courses and tennis courts to challenge even the most 
accomplished athlete.  And theme-oriented nightclubs create 
worlds of excitement to celebrate till dawn.

Questions?

	Administrative questions regarding AVS '93 should be 
directed to Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey at 919-248-1841, 
email gebuhr@mcnc.org.  Technical questions and questions 
about AVS User Group membership should be directed to 
David Bennett at 919-248-1182, email avs@ncsc.org.  
Exhibition questions should be directed to Ann Cadran at 
919-248-1432, email cadran@mcnc.org. 
AVS Video Review Theatre questions should be directed to 
Steve Thorpe at 919-248-1161, email avs@ncsc.org.

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                            AVS '93
2nd Annual International AVS User Group Conference and Exhibition 
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                          REGISTRATION
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PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE.

Name:
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Address:
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City/State/Zip or postal code:
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                       Course Selection

Advance registration is required for all lectures, tutorials, 
workshops, and panels in order to coordinate seating and room 
space. Space availability cannot be guaranteed at on-site 
registration.  Tutorials and workshops are hands-on and require 
basic knowledge of AVS.  Exceptions are the Network Editor,  AVS 
Animator, the Geometry Viewer, and the Overview of AVS 5.0 
tutorials.

NOTE: Workshops and Tutorials are hands-on courses.  If you register
      for either, you will not be able to attend other lectures that
      are scheduled during that time frame. Indicate course numbers
      in the appropriate time slots.  Print clearly.
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Reception and Keynote Address	5:15-7 pm 	YES	NO 

AVS Video Review Theater	7-8:00 pm 	YES	NO	
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                            REGISTRATION FEE
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The registration fee covers exhibits, panels, lectures, up to two 
tutorials and one workshop, one copy of the workshop proceedings, 
registration materials, refreshments during breaks, AVS Video 
Review Theatre, and an evening reception.


				Early Registration	After March 1, 1993
			(postmarked on or before 3/1/93)

AVS user group member		$495				$570
Nonmember			$545				$620

(You must provide a copy of current identification or documentation 
for the following categories.)

Student/government/nonprofit
member of AVS user group	$395                            $470

Student/government/nonprofit
nonmember 			$445				$520

Each additional workshop 	$150				$150
(one included with base registration) 

Each additional  tutorial 	$ 50				$ 50
(two included with base registration)
	
				Base registration fee	$
							 -----------
		Additional workshops  (each @ $150)	$
							 -----------
		Additional tutorials  (each @ $ 50)	$
							 -----------
						TOTAL	$
							 -----------

Please fax or mail your registration form.  Make fees payable to 
MCNC by check, money order, MasterCard, or Visa.  Checks must be 
in U.S. dollars and drawn on U.S. banks.  Telephone registrations will 
not be accepted.  Faxed registrations must include credit card 
numbers and signatures. The deadline for advance registration is 
May 14, 1993.  After May 14, 1993, you must register on site.  MCNC 
cannot be responsible for or confirm registrations mailed after this 
date.

Please check form of payment.

Check  |     | 	    MasterCard	|     |     Visa  |     | 
	
Credit card number: 				Amount $:
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Name as it appears on credit card:
				  ----------------------------------	
Expiration date:
		----------------------------------------------------	
Authorized signature (required):
				------------------------------------	

Cancellation/Refund Policy

Written cancellations received before May 1, 1993, will receive full 
refund of conference registration fee.

Complete and return this form with your payment to:

			     MCNC
	Post Office Box 12889	3021 Cornwallis Road
   Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2889 USA
	Phone 919-248-1841	Fax 919-248-1445
	  Attention:  Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey

	       KEEP A COPY FOR YOUR RECORDS.


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			HOTEL REGISTRATION FORM
**************************************************************************
				AVS '93 
    2nd Annual International AVS User Group Conference and Exhibition
		      WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN
	            1500 EPCOT Resorts Boulevard
			Post Office Box 22653
	           Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830-2653
		            407-934-4290
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Please type or print all information.

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Organization:
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Address:
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Mail stop:
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City:							State:	
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Zip:				Country:
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Telephone number:
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Fax number:
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Arrival date:				Departure date:
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(Check in 3 p.m.; check out 11 a.m.)

Room Fees (If selected room is unavailable, one at the nearest rate 
will be reserved.  Rates are subject to 6% sales tax and 4% resort tax.)  
Published rates are applicable two days prior and two days after the 
conference dates.

Student/government/nonprofit rate:	$100 single, $120 double  
(Proper documentation must be presented for this category.)

Regular conference rate:		$130 single/double

Room required:
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Sharing room with:
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Special requests:
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	Smoking 	Nonsmoking          Accessible room
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Payment

Enclosed is a check or money order for $	     .	
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Credit card (circle one)		MasterCard	Visa	
		American Express	Diners Club	Enroute	
		JOE			Carte Blanche	Discover

Credit card #					for $
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Credit card expiration date:
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Name as appears on credit card:
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Signature of credit card holder:
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Conference rate applies only to reservations made up until April 20.  
Every effort will be made to confirm room selection.  A deposit equal 
to one nights stay is required to hold a reservation.  Failure to cancel 
a reservation five days prior to arrival results in forfeit of deposit.  
Reservations are subject to cancellation if deposit is not received.  
Extra-person charges are $15 per night.  Children under 18 may stay 
at no cost with parents, provided no extra bedding is needed.

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Complete and return this form with your payment or credit card 
authorization to WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN,1500 EPCOT Resorts 
Boulevard, Post Office Box 22653, Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830-2653.   
Fax 407-934-4710.   DO NOT SEND THIS FORM TO MCNC.
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                        	AVS '93
	         2nd Annual International AVS User Group 
                       Conference and Exhibition
***********************************************************************

AVS '93, the 2nd Annual International AVS User Group 
Conference and Exhibition, is presented by the International 
AVS Center and the North Carolina Supercomputing Center, a 
division of MCNC, in cooperation with the AVS Consortium.  The 
AVS Consortium consists of Advanced Visual Systems Inc., 
CONVEX Computer Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, 
Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Kubota Pacific Company Inc., 
and SUN Microsystems Inc.

MCNC is a private, nonprofit research consortium involving 
North Carolina and its industry, universities, and research 
institutes.  MCNC provides advanced capabilities and expertise 
in microelectronics, communications, and high-performance 
computing to support industry, education, and research in 
North Carolina.  It promotes joint research opportunities among 
its industry and academic consortium members and addresses 
specific technology challenges.

NCSC supports industrial and academic initiatives through 
research collaborations, partnerships, computational science 
support, high-performance computing, education programs, and 
related activities.  NCSC also facilitates research in the areas of 
computational science, scientific visualization, and computer 
science.

The International AVS Center, housed at NCSC, is the worldwide 
clearinghouse for collecting, porting, and distributing public-
domain visualization modules.  These modules enable dramatic 
advances in the scope and speed of research in a variety of 
disciplines.  The International AVS Center serves as a catalyst 
for expanding the AVS user base and for increasing AVS 
functionality by fostering discipline-specific module 
development and new AVS uses.


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               Advance Program Image Credits
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Center Image
Computed Fermi surface for the high-temperature 92 K 123 
superconductor, with colors representing the Fermi 
velocity.  From Pickett, Krakauer, Cohen, and Singh, Science  
255, 46-54, 1992; cover image by Ronald E. Cohen of the 
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC.

Border Image
Image processing for regional identification, with 
urbanization highlighted in red.  Image by Wes Bethel of 
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.

Right Interior Image
Molecular dynamics simulation of particles colliding with a 
spherical boundary.  Image by Ken Flurchick of the North 
Carolina Supercomputing Center (NCSC), Research Triangle 
Park, NC.  Original AVS module written by NCSCs Dave 
Bock.

Left Interior Image
Three-dimensional surface representation of the binding 
pocket of an antibody containing a synthetic peptide 
consisting of residues 100-108 of the influenza virus 
hemagglutinin protein.  Image by U. Schulze-Gahmen and M. 
Pique of the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La 
Jolla, CA.


From eigyfm@hpes5.sdrc.com (James Epperson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: AVS - Address &/or Phone No.
Message-ID: <609@heimdall.sdrc.com>
Date: 1 Feb 93 13:49:37 GMT
Sender: news@heimdall.sdrc.com
Reply-To: albert.wehrman@sdrc.com
Organization: SDRC
Lines: 11

Hi,

   We are about to begin a project which will require 3d graphics within
an X environment.  AVS software was recommended, but no address or phone
number was given.  We would like to contact AVS about the possibility
of using their product.  If anyone could give me their address and/or 
phone number, it would be greatly appreceated.

Thanks
Al



From mayer@piis05.joanneum.ac.at (Mayer Harald)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: Re: background colour
Date: 2 Feb 1993 08:00:40 GMT
Organization: Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria
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Message-ID: <1kl9n8INNmb3@fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at>
References: <C1s9KB.Mv7@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
NNTP-Posting-Host: piis05.joanneum.ac.at
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Motomu Ibaraki x2544 (mibaraki@cgribm.UWaterloo.ca) wrote:
: 
: I have used 'geometry viewer, camera, background colour'
: and change the colour to white, but when I printed out the background
: the colour was not white... it was gray. (I used postscript format)
: Is there any way to get "real" white colour? (the same colour as
: paper, that is, no printing of background)
: 

We have the same problem with our DEC AVS. The User Interface does not 
allow to set a perfect white. Therefore you should try to set the
background color via the CLI command 

    geom_set_background 1.0 1.0 1.0

Harald
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From <HERAS@EMDJEN11.BITNET>
Message-ID: <93029.162658HERAS@EMDJEN11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
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            Instituto de Estudios de la Energia
            ___________________________________


                         CIEMAT
                         ======


                GRAFICOS EN LA CIENCIA, 93

                ==========================

         (Sistemas de Visualizacion por Ordenador)

        Madrid, del 29 de Marzo al 2 de Abril de 1993


     Reconocido como curso de doctorado por las Universidades

           Autonoma y Politecnica de Madrid.


PRESENTACION:
_____________


  La integracion entre el hombre  y  la  maquina  y  el  acercamiento  al mundo

real desde la perspectiva de una simulacion  cada  vez  mas  proxima  al propio

original, son puntos hacia los que se dirigen las mas  actuales investigaciones

en sistemas de visualizacion  computerizada.  La  imponente  tarea de  resolver

los  problemas  asociados  es   estimulada  por  el  continuo   aumento de  las

capacidades de los ordenadores y en particular  de  las  estaciones  de trabajo

especializadas.


   En esta segunda edicion del  curso  Graficos  en  la  Ciencia, avanzamos  un

paso mas en las posibilidades de la alta tecnologia de  la  informatica grafica

cientifica. Este avance se realiza desde  una  doble  vertiente:  por  un lado,

la complejidad de los temas a  tratar y su  relacion  con los presentados en la

primera edicion, por otro, su gran interes actual y de cara al futuro.


OBJETIVO
________


  El objetivo de  este  curso  es  suministrar  en  cada  caso  la  informacion

suficiente para que los participantes puedan trabajar en el tema tratado.


 Se  pretende ademas proporcionar una vision general realista de la informatica

grafica cientifica en la actualidad y de cara al futuro.


 Manteniendo  el tratamiento de puntos basicos como los  estandares,  librerias

y dispositivos graficos, en especial estaciones  de  trabajo,  se  renuevan  en

sucesivas versiones las presentaciones sobre aspectos de  la  mayor  actualidad

e interes para los cientificos de diversas disciplinas.


DIRIGIDO A:
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  Profesionales del calculo cientifico en ordenador o postgraduados interesados

en introducirse en el tema.


PROGRAMA:
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-Introduccion: Estado actual.


-Estandares graficos.


-Librerias de alto nivel.


-Visualizadores.


-Animacion:


  Control del movimiento y las deformaciones.

  Sistemas mecanicos complejos.


-Realidad virtual:


  Aplicaciones en robotica.


-Tratamiento de imagenes.

-Dispositivos graficos.

-Proyeccion futura.


DIRECCION:
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 Dr. D. Jose Guasp. CIEMAT.


COORDINACION TECNICA:
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 Dna. Araceli Quintero. CIEMAT.



PROFESORADO:
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Prof. Dr. P. Brunet. UPC.

Prof. Dr. N. Garcia. UPM.

Dr. E. Gonzalez. CIEMAT.

Prof. Dr. J. Guasp. CIEMAT.

Prof. Dr. G. Hegron. INRIA.

Prof. Dr. R. Stone. NARRC.


DEMOSTRACIONES:
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 Silicon Graphics

 Hewlet Packard


HORARIO:
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 De 9.30 a 17.00 horas.

 Visitas a laboratorios fuera de horario.


IDIOMA:
______


  Las presentaciones  se realizaran en castellano o ingles,  dependiendo  de la

nacionalidad del profesor.


INSCRIPCION
___________


 Enviar la hoja de inscripcion antes del 15 de marzo de 1993.


CUOTA DE INSCRIPCION:
____________________


 100.000 pts.

  Existira  un numero limitado de cuotas reducidas para postgraduados recientes

y alumnos matriculados en  los  programas  de  doctorado  de  las Universidades

citadas.


MAS INFORMACION:
_______________


 Instituto de Estudios de la Energia.

 Avda. Complutense, 22 - 28040 MADRID

 Tfno.:  (91) 3466365

 Telex:  23555 CIEMA-E

 Telefax:  91 - 3466005

 E_mail: Araceli@dec.ciemat.es


From vpham@cs.ulowell.edu (vinh)
Subject: Motif programs under AVS
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hi,
i am looking for samples of Motif programs running as AVS modules.
thanks for any pointers.
vp



From rsignell@crusty.er.usgs.gov (Richard P. Signell)
Subject: Map Projections
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I am looking for modules to do standard map projections (mercator,
transverse mercator, universal transverse mercator, etc) on 
lat,lon field data.  I looked through the modules at the IAC, and there 
seems to be only one module that deals with map projections (the 
khoros vll2utm routine in remote_gis).  I nobody has 'em, we'll do
'em, building an AVS interface to Gerry Evenden's wonderful "proj" program 
(available at charon.er.usgs.gov:~aftp/pub/{proj-3.1.2.tar.Z,proj.OF90-284.ps} )

Thanks,
--
Rich Signell               |  rsignell@crusty.er.usgs.gov
U.S. Geological Survey     |  (508) 457-2229  |  FAX (508) 457-2310
Quissett Campus            |  " When marriage is outlawed, 
Woods Hole, MA  02543      |    only outlaws will have inlaws. "


From avs@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Subject: 2nd Annual International AVS User Group Conference (AVS '93)
Message-ID: <C25Cry.JM@doppler.ncsc.org>
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 20:26:22 GMT


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			Visualization.  
			   Imaging.  
	              Computer Graphics.
****************************************************************


		INTERESTED IN SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION??

The following information is the complete preliminary advance
registration for the "2nd Annual International AVS User Group Conference"
which is being held May 24-26, 1993 at the WALT DISNEY WORLD
Dolphin Hotel at Lake Buena Vista, Florida.  It includes over 100 lectures,
tutorials, workshops and panels in Scientific Visualization using the
AVS (Application Visualization System) environment.  Users from around
the world will present their work in six different tracks:

Biomedical/Medical
Chemistry/Molecular Modeling
Geographical Information Systems (GIS)/ and Remote Sensing
Earth Sciences
General Tracks A and B that include;
	Distributed computing
	Parallelization
	Holographic display
	Sonification
	CFD and FE
	AVS in manufacturing
	and many other topics 

In addition, there will be a video theater of AVS users work.

The Exhibition floor will be technology oriented and provide
examples of hardware and software using AVS.  Make sure to see
VISION DOME, a Virtual Reality environment that is the central 
demonstration of our "Emerging Technologies" exhibit.

This information is also available in hardcopy and in
electronic format on the International AVS Center's public domain
ftp site.  To get an online copy, ftp to 128.109.178.23 and
login as anonymous, give your email address as the password and
cd to the avs93 directory.  For ASCII format, type ascii and then
type get AVS93_prog.txt.  We hope to have PostScript format available
soon.  To get hardcopy, send email to avs93@ncsc.org or write to:

	International AVS Center
	3021 Cornwallis Road
	Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
	Phone (919) 248 1182
	FAX   (919) 248 1101

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**A detailed listing of the titles to be presented is included below.**
			COMPLETE PROGRAM FOLLOWS
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AVS '93, the 2nd Annual International AVS User Group 
Conference and Exhibition, is presented by the 
International AVS Center and the North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center (NCSC), a division of MCNC, in 
cooperation with the AVS Consortium.  The AVS Consortium 
consists of Advanced Visual Systems Inc., CONVEX Computer 
Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-
Packard Company, IBM, Kubota Pacific Company Inc., and 
SUN Microsystems Inc.

AVS '93 provides a one-of-a-kind, international forum 
for AVS users and developers to share information and 
exchange ideas for the advancement of AVS.  The conference 
features technology-oriented exhibitions, tutorials, 
workshops, lectures, panels, and video screenings.  
Conference topics include computational chemistry, 
computational fluid dynamics, earth sciences, education 
and research, geographic information systems and remote 
sensing, image analysis, medical imaging, molecular 
modeling, oil and gas exploration, scientific visualization, 
structural analysis, and more.

Proceedings

MCNC publishes the proceedings volume for distribution to 
AVS '93 registrants at the conference.  Extra copies can be 
purchased for $50 after the conference.

Program Committee

Program Chair 
DAVID BENNETT,
International AVS Center/North Carolina Supercomputing 
Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Co-Chairs  
KATHERINE MOHRFELD,
International AVS Center /North Carolina Supercomputing 
Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

STEVE THORPE, 
International AVS Center/North Carolina Supercomputing 
Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Medical/Biomedical Chair
MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Ann Arbor, MI

Earth Sciences Chair
THERESA RHYNE, Martin Marietta/
U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC

Geographic Information Systems Chair 
CHUCK HANSEN,
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 

General Track A Chair
TOM PALMER, Cray Research/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Chemistry and Molecular Modeling Chair
DOUGLAS SMITH, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 

General Track B Chair
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California at Irvine, 
Office of Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Sessions

Panels

Panelists offer candid and provocative discussion 
and debate on trends, controversies, and viewpoints in 
the visualization industry and address a broad range of 
AVS topics, including virtual reality, packet video, and 
education.

Lectures and Workshops

International experts from industry and academia 
present lectures and conduct hands-on workshops on 
emerging visualization techniques and AVS uses in such 
areas as medical imaging, molecular modeling, geographic 
information systems, and chemistry. 

Note:  Workshops require basic AVS user knowledge.

AVS Video Review Theatre

The AVS Video Review Theatre showcases everyday 
examples of completed works and works in progress by 
AVS users from around the world.  Questions and 
submissions should be forwarded to Steve Thorpe, 
NCSC, Post Office Box 12889, 3021 Cornwallis Road, 
Research Triangle Park, NC  27709-2889,  telephone 
919-248-1161, email avs@ncsc.org.  

Special-Focus Groups

Special-focus groups bring together people with 
mutual interests to meet, exchange ideas, and share and 
compare information on a wide variety of visualization 
topics.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide hands-on training by experts who 
offer beginning and basic courses on AVS use as well as 
how to use third-party, AVS-compatible software.  
Tutorials require basic knowledge of AVS except 
courses in the AVS Animator, the Geometry Viewer, the 
Network Editor, and the Overview of AVS 5.

Exhibition

The exhibition features technology-sharing demonstrations 
by the AVS Consortium members and other AVS product-
related vendors and users.  The exhibition is held Monday 
and Tuesday, May 24 and 25, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
and Wednesday, May 26, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 
Exhibition admission is included as part of the AVS 
93 registration fee.  Tickets to attend only the exhibition 
may be purchased for $25 at the 
AVS 93 registration booth.

For additional  information and a copy of the exhibitor 
prospectus, contact Ann Cadran, Conference Associate, 
MCNC, Post Office Box 12889, 3021 Cornwallis Road, 
Research Triangle Park, NC  27709.
Telephone:  919-248-1432
Fax:  919-248-1445 
Email: cadran@mcnc.org


********************************************************************  
         AVS '93 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: SUBJECT TO CHANGE
********************************************************************

Medical/Biomedical and Image Synthesis

Chair: MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Ann Arbor, MI

Lectures

Design and Simulation of 3-D Conformal Radiotherapy Using AVS 
(#ML9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Radiation Oncology, Ann Arbor, MI

New Methods for Visualizing the Structure of Biological Molecules 
(#ML10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
DAN PEISACH, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Visualizing Physiological Data 
(#ML3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
STEPHEN PRICE, Loma Linda University Medical Center, 
Loma Linda, CA

Interactive Data Exploration and Telecollaboration in 
Biomedicine Using AVS 
(#ML4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday) GUDRAN J. KLINKER, 
Cambridge Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment 
Corporation, Cambridge, MA

Hyperspectral Imaging Spectrometer Data Analysis Using AVS 
(#TL9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
JEFF COCHAND, TASC, Reading, MA

Visualization of Air Flow of a Rats Nasal Airway Using AVS 
and FIDAP 
(#TL10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
JULIA S. KIMBELL, Chemical Industry Institute of 
Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, NC

Building Medical Imaging Applications Using Khoros Modules 
Ported into AVS
(#TL3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday) JOHN RASURE AND TOM SAUER, 
The Khoros Group, University of New Mexico, Department 
of EECE, Albuquerque, NM

AVS and Radiotherapy Treatment Planning  
(#TL4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
E. LOREN BUHLE JR., University of Pennsylvania, School of 
Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 

Holographic Display of Medical Image Data 
(#WL9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday) MICHAEL DALTON, Voxel, 
Laguna Hills, CA

Simultaneous Usage of Homologous Points, Lines, and Planes for 
Optimal 3-D Linear Registration of Multimodality Imaging Data 
(#WL10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
GREGG LEICHTMAN, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, The Laser 
Research Center, Los Angeles, CA

3-D Image Segmentation in MR Images 
(#WL2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
LLOYD MYERS, University of Washington, School of 
Medicine, Department of Biological Structures, 
Seattle, WA

Workshop

Visualization and Analysis of Multidimensional Biomedical 
Images Using ANALYZE 
(#MW9-1, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; 
#TW9-1, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Tuesday; 
#WW9-1, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday) 
RICHARD ROBB AND DENNY HANSEN, 
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.
  
Earth Sciences

Chair: THERESA RHYNE, Martin Marietta/  
U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC

Lectures

Developing an AVS-Based Training Program for Environmental 
Researchers at the U.S. EPA
(#ML9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
THERESA RHYNE, Martin Marietta/
U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC

Basin Modeling with AVS (#ML10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
ANNETTE WALSH, Mobil Exploration and Producing 
Technical Center, Dallas, TX

Flood Plane Visualization for the Snake River Plain 
(#ML3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
L. ERIC GREENWADE, Visualization and Imaging Team, Idaho 
National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID

Circulation and Plume Tracking in the Massachusetts Bay 
(#ML4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
EVELYN WRIGHT AND RICHARD P. SIGNELL, 
U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA

UAMworld:  A User-Friendly Distributed Environment for 
Execution Analysis and Visualization of the Urban Airshed Model 
(#TL9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday) STEVE CHALL, 
North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC 

The Weather on Jupiter 
(#TL10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
TIM DOWLING, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Science, 
Cambridge, MA

Use of AVS in Meteorology 
(#TL3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
BILL BAUMAN, U.S. Air Force/ North Carolina State 
University, Raleigh, NC

A User's Perspective of AVS in an Engineering Analysis 
Environment 
(#TL4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
MIKE GLASS, Sandia National Laboratories, Computational 
Fluid Dynamics, Albuquerque, NM

Airshed Photochemical Model 
(#WL9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
CARY MCGREGOR, California Air Resources Board, 
Sacramento, CA

Atmospheric Science Using AVS 
(#WL10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
PHILIP C. CHEN, Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, CA

Visualizing the Influence of Building Projects in Environmentally 
Sensitive Areas 
(#WL2-2, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
HARALD MAYER, Joanneum Research Institute for 
Information Systems, Graz, Austria

Workshop

SurfCube 
(#MW9-2, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TW2-2, 2 - 4:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WW9-2, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday)
TIM HAYS, Landmark Graphics, Houston, TX
Note: Basic knowledge of AVS is required.
  
Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) 
and Remote Sensing

Chair: CHUCK HANSEN, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, NM 

Lectures

PAMAP-GIS in AVS 
(#ML9-3, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
PAMAP Technologies Corporation, 
Victoria, BC, Canada

Database System Management for the Sequoia Project Using 
Postgres and AVS 
(#ML10-3, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
MIKE KOCHEVAR, Digital Equipment Corporation  Sequoia 
Project, San Diego Supercomputing Center, La Jolla, CA

Natural Disaster Modeling in the Geological Sciences to 
Facilitate Public Policy Decision-Making 
(#ML3-3, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
ERIC FROST; San Diego State University, Computer 
Imaging, Visualization, and Animation Center, San Diego, CA 

Building Remote Sensing Applications Using Khoros 
Modules Ported into AVS
(#ML4-3, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
JOHN RASURE AND TOM SAUER, 
The Khoros Group, University of New Mexico, Department 
of EECE, Albuquerque, NM

GIS and Visualization 
(#TL9-3, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
WILLIAM IVEY, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Parallel Processing Support for GIS 
(#TL10-3, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
WOJTEK FURMANSKI, 
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Using AVS to Further NASA Space Science Research and 
Mission Planning 
(#TL3-3, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
DAVID MCNABB, University of Maryland, Advanced 
Visualization Laboratory, College Park, MD 

Environmental Use of a Laser Range Finder and AVS 
(#TL4-3, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
DON JONES AND ERIN THORNTEN, 
Battelle-Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, WA

Modeling with Artisan in AVS 
(#WL9-3, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
MIKE BONNAIN, SET Technology, Boulder, CO

On the Use of 3D in GIS Using AVS 
(#WL10-3, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday) 
JESSE DRIVER, Kubota Pacific, Santa Clara, CA

Workshop

GIS Visualization Using 
PAMAP in AVS 
(#MW2-2, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Monday;  #TW9-2, 9 - 11:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WW2-2, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)
PAMAP Technologies Corporation, 
Victoria, BC, Canada
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.
  
General A

Chair: TOM PALMER 
Cray Research/North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Lectures

Sonification in AVS 
(#ML9-4, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
BRIAN KAPLAN, Indiana University, Center for Innovative 
Computer Applications, Bloomington, IN

Visualization of a Simulation Catalog of Numerical 
Hydrodynamics 
(#ML10-4, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
SHAWN MEHAN, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

CLI Hints and Tips 
(#ML3-4, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
HOWARD WATKINS, Intera Information Technologies Ltd., 
Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom

Distributed Methodologies for Animation Using AVS 
(#ML4-4, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
LARRY DIAMOND, Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer 
Science, Austin, TX

Experiences in Developing AVS-Layered Applications 
(#TL9-4, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
RALPH FOLZ, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates Inc., 
Concord, MA

The Practical Use of AVS to Aid the Visualization of 3-D 
Semiconductor Device Simulation 
(#TL10-4, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
Jonathan Cox, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, DEPARTMENT OF 
COMPUTER SCIENCE, MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM

Optical Device Modeling:  Debugging and Visualizing with AVS 
(#TL3-4, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
PASCAL LANDI, Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Summit, NJ

Visualization on Massively Parallel Computers Using AVS 
(#TL4-4, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
CHUCK HANSEN, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Advanced 
Computing Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM	

AVS Functional Visualization:  Extracting Algebraic Expressions 
from Distributed Numbers 
(#WL9-4, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
RON KRIZ, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
University, Blacksburg, VA

Interactive Simulations of Focus Wave Modes Using AVS 
(#WL10-4,10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
JOHN SHALF, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
University, Blacksburg, VA

Finite Element Data Visualization Using UCD 
(#WL2-4, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
LARRY SCHOOF, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

Scientific Animation Tips-n-Tricks 
(#WL3-4, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
CHRIS LANDRETH, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Workshop

Importing Your Data into and Visualization Techniques for 
AVS Data Formats 
(#MW9-3, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday topic uses UCD data; #TW2-3,  
2 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday topic uses field data; #WW9-3,  9 
- 11:45 a.m. Wednesday topic uses chemistry data
MARY STEPHENSON AND JON VAGI, 
North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC
Note: This workshop is designed for intermediate users and is 
not suitable for beginners.
  
Chemistry and
Molecular Modeling

Chair: DOUGLAS SMITH, 
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH  

Lectures

Quantum Chemistry Using the AVS Chemistry Viewer 
(#ML9-5, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
DOUGLAS SMITH, University of Toledo, Department of 
Chemistry, Toledo, OH

Using AVS as an Internal Design Tool:  Prototyping Code for 
Future Versions of SPARTAN
(#ML10-5, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
JOE LEONARD, Wavefunction Inc., Irvine, CA

Visualizing Molecular Orbital Generated Dynamic Reaction 
Processes with AVS 
(#ML3-5, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
GEORGE FAMINI, ERDEC, Aberdeen Proving Ground, 
Aberdeen, MD

AVS and CFD in the Chemical Process Industries 
(#ML4-5, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
MICHAEL RANGITSCH, Dow Chemical USA, Plaquemine, LA

Precision Engineering Visualization with AVS
(#TL9-5, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
KEN FLURCHICK, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

SAVS:  An Integrated Approach to Data Acquisition, 
Manipulation, and Visualization 
(#TL10-5, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
Edward P. Szuszczewicz, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS 
INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, MCLEAN, VA

AVS in Crystallography and Molecular Biology 
(#TL3-5, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
LYNN TEN EYCK, University of California at San Diego, 
Department of Chemistry, La Jolla, CA

AVS for Molecular Modeling 
(#TL4-5, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
MIKE PIQUE AND BRUCE DUNCAN, 
The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Molecular 
Biology, La Jolla, CA

AVS and the Naval Research Laboratory 
(#WL9-5, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
ROBERT ROSENBERG, Naval Research Laboratory, 
Washington, DC

Resin Transfer Mold Process Simulation Using AVS 
(#WL10-5, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
DOUG MACRAE, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
University, Blacksburg, VA

Workshops

Introduction to the Chemistry Viewer 
(#MW9-4, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TW9-4, 9 - 11:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WW9-4, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday)
UPUL OBEYSEKARE, Science and Visualization Laboratory, 
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, and MARK 
BENZEL, 
Molecular Simulations Inc.,  Sunnyvale, CA
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.

Advanced Features of the Chemistry Viewer 
(#MW2-4, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; #TW2-4, 2 - 4:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WW2-4, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)
UPUL OBEYSEKARE, Science and Visualization Laboratory, 
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, and MARK 
BENZEL, Molecular Simulations Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.
  
General B

Chair: STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California 
at Irvine, Office of Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Lectures

IDL: The Interactive Data Language for AVS 
(#ML9-6, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
DAVID STERN, Research Systems Inc., Boulder, CO

Approaches to Interapplication Communications for AVS 
(#ML10-6, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
DAVE MCNABB, University of Maryland, Advanced 
Visualization Laboratory, College Park, MD

Visual Correlation of Lightning Strikes and BT Alarms 
(#ML3-6, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
GRAHAM WALKER, BT Laboratories, Visualization Systems 
Research, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, United Kingdom

Visualization in Scientific Computing: Uses in University 
Education 
(#ML4-6, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California at Irvine, 
Office of Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Handling Very Large Structural Models 
(#TL9-6, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
KEITH REDNER, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates 
Inc., Concord, MA

The Nature of Scientific Visualization 
(#TL10-6, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
ALAN BARNUM-SCRIVENER, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., 
Laguna Hills, CA

Multidimensional Visualization with AVS Applied to 
Semiconductor Simulation 
(#TL3-6, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
FRANKLIN BODINE, National Center for Computational 
Electronics, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Preserving Your Model Integrity 
(#TL4-6, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
KEITH REDMAN, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates 
Inc., Concord, MA

Dataflow Networks for Multilevel Simulation of Industrial 
Problems 
(#WL9-6, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
MENG LEAN, XEROX Corporation, North Tarrytown, NY

Architecture of the AVS Kernel:  Understanding How to Get 
Maximum Efficiency from Your Network 
(#WL10-6, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
JEFF VROOM, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., Waltham, MA

Nondestructive Testing Using AVS 
(#WL2-6, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
SUSAN B. WARMBRODT, Failure Analysis Associates, Inc., 
Menlo Park, CA

2nd Annual User Group Meeting 
(#WL3-6, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California, Office of 
Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Workshop

IDL:  The Interactive Data Language for AVS 
(#MW2-3, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; #TW9-3, 9 - 11:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WW2-3 2 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)  
DAVID FANNING, Research Systems Inc., Boulder, CO 
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Tutorials A

MAPLE5 and AVS 
(#MT9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday; #TT10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. 
Tuesday; #WT11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday) BENTON LEONG, 
Waterloo Maple Software, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and LYLE 
WIEDEMAN, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA  
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Image and Volume Data Processing Under AVS  Medical, MRI, 
GIS, Remote Sensing, and Oil and Gas Exploration 
(#MT4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; #TT9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. 
Tuesday; #WT10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
STEVE BONG AND BOB KING, Crystal Image Technologies, 
Huntsville, AL
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Theoretical Crystallography with AVS 
(#MT11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TT2-1, 2 - 2:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
DON JONES AND ERIN THORNTEN, Battelle-Pacific Northwest 
Laboratory, Richland, WA
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

The Rational Engineering Visualizer 
(#MT2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday; #TT3-1, 3 - 3:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)
KEITH REDNER, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates 
Inc., Concord, MA
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Introduction to the AVS Animator 
(#MT3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday; #TT4-1, 4 - 4:45 
p.m. Tuesday;  #TT5-1, 5 - 5:45 p.m. Tuesday; 
#TT6-1, 6 - 6:45 p.m. Tuesday; #WT9-1, 9 -9:45 a.m. 
Wednesday) HAM LORD, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., 
Waltham, MA

Mathematica and AVS 
(#MT4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; 
#TT9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT10-1, 10 - 10:45 
a.m. Wednesday) MATHEMATICA, Wolfram Research Inc., 
Champaign, IL
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Introduction to the Geometry Viewer 
(#TT5-2, 5 - 5:45 p.m. Tuesday; #TT6-2, 6 - 6:45 p.m. 
Tuesday)
KEN FLURCHICK, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC  

Tutorials B

Applications of AVS in the Earth Sciences at Oxford 
(#MT9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday; #TT10-2, 10 - 10:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WT11-2, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday)
KEITH REFSON, Oxford University, Department of Earth 
Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Multipolarization Workstation (MPWS) Software 
(#MT10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday; #TT11-2, 11 - 
11:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT2-2, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
CHRIS WILLIS, GEC-Marconi Research Center, Gread 
Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Writing Code in C Using the AVS Module Generator 
(#MT11-2, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TT2-2, 2 - 2:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
LARRY GELBERG, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., Waltham, MA
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Overview of AVS 5.0 
(#MT2-2, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday; #TT3-2, 3 - 3:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
HAM LORD OR LARRY GELBERG, Advanced Visual Systems 
Inc., Waltham, MA 

Introduction to the Network Editor 
(#MT3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m Monday; #TT4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. 
Tuesday; #TT8-2, 8 - 8:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT4-2, 
4 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday; #WT8-2, 
8 - 8:45 a.m. Wednesday)
STEVE THORPE, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC 

How to Visualize Your CFD Data Using AVS-FLOW 
(#MT10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday; #TT11-1, 11 - 
11:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
TARO ISHIGURO, ADAM NET LTD., Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, 
Tokyo, Japan
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 


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AVS as an Educational and Instructional Tool 
(#MP9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California at Irvine, 
Irvine, CA

Future Technology Needs for Medical Imaging 
(#MP10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Radiation Oncology, Ann Arbor, MI

Virtual Reality 
(#MP11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday)
DAVID BENNETT, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Data Management 
(#MP2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday)
TERRY MYERSON, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC 

Khoros:  A Visual Software Development Environment 
(#MP3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
JOHN RASURE AND TOM SAUER, 
The Khoros Group, University of New Mexico, Department 
of EECE, Albuquerque, NM

Future Directions and Features for AVS 
(#MP4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
Dave Kamins, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., Waltham, MA

Parallel Computing with AVS 
(#TP9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
TERRY MYERSON, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Distributed Computing with AVS 
(#TP10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
TERRY MYERSON, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Optimal Configurations for AVS Hardware 
(#TP11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Tuesday)
DAVID BENNETT, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

AVS Developers and Porters Panel 
(#TP2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Tuesday)
STEVE THORPE, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Reception and Keynote Address

Because you'll need plenty of time to experience the 
many exciting attractions in the Lake Buena Vista area, AVS 
'93 presents only one evening of conference activities.  
>From 5:15 to 7 p.m. on Monday, May 24, the AVS Gala
Reception features a magnificent variety of appetizing hors 
doeuvres and canapes guaranteed to satisfy the most 
discriminating taste.  The receptions focal point is the 
keynote address, from 5:45 - 6:15 p.m.  At 7 p.m., 
activities move on to the first AVS Video Review Theatre.

Dr. Larry Smarr, Director of the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications will be the keynote speaker.
Dr. Smarr, age 43, earned his bachelor's and 
master's degrees from the University of 
Missouri, a master's at Stanford University, and 
a doctorate from the University of Texas at 
Austin  (all are in Physics).  He conducted 
research while at Stanford and Texas, and later 
at Princeton and Yale universities.  For the 
three years before he joined the University of 
Illinois faculty in 1979, Smarr was a Junior 
Fellow in the Harvard University Society of 
Fellows.  An internationally recognized 
astrophysicist, Dr. Smarr has conducted 
observational, theoretical, and computational 
based research, resulting in the publication of 
over fifty scientific papers.  He currently is 
actively involved in research on the dynamics 
of black holes in general relativity.

Dr. Smarr has been one of the pioneers in the 
movement to dramatically increase the number 
of academic and industrial researchers using 
supercomputers to attack critical problems in 
research, development and manufacturing.  In 
1983, he initiated the first proposal to the 
National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a 
national supercomputer center.  He worked 
actively with Congress in 1984 to assure 
passage of the legislation which authorized the 
current set of NSF supercomputer centers and 
the NSFnet national network.  In 1985, Dr. 
Smarr became the Director of the National 
Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) 
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign (UIUC).  Since then, NCSA has been 
a pioneer in coupling desktop computing and 
scientific visualization with the leading edge of 
supercomputing.

Smarr is a Fellow of the American Physical 
Society and in 1990 he received the Franklin 
Institute's Delmer S. Fahrney Medal for 
Leadership in Science or Technology.  His views 
on supercomputers and science have been 
quoted widely in publications including the 
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, 
Business Week, Science, and Science News.  
Most recently, he has co-authored with William 
Kaufmann III, the book, Supercomputing and 
the Transformation of Science.  He travels 
extensively to give lectures on computational 
science and technology and to attend 
conferences and workshops in a  wide variety 
of disciplines, both in this country  and 
internationally.

AVS Video Review Theatre

The AVS '93 Committee is collecting AVS user videos 
from around the world and assembling a review of users
most interesting work representing every discipline.  This 
hour of AVS videos dramatically demonstrates how AVS is 
being used by others.  To contribute work for this showing, 
contact Steve Thorpe, International AVS Center/North 
Carolina Supercomputing Center, Post Office Box 12889, 
3021 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC 
27709-2889, telephone 919-248-1161, email 
avs@ncsc.org.

Advance Registration

The conference registration form at the back of this 
booklet (or a copy) should be used to submit advance 
registration for AVS '93.  Early registrations postmarked 
on or before March 1, 1993, receive a $75 discount.  The 
advance registration deadline is May 14.  All  registrations 
must be accompanied by payment.   After May 14, 1993, 
registrations must be done on-site.  The hands-on 
workshops and tutorials have limited space and may not be 
available to late registrants.

On-Site Registration

On-site registration is Sunday and Monday, May 23 and 
24, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN.
Conference staff will be available on-site at all times 
to assist attendees with questions. Late registrants may be 
put on waiting lists for workshops and tutorials.

Registration Discounts

Member Discount:  Each AVS User Group member qualifies 
for a member discount.

Student Discount:  To qualify for a student discount, a 
registrant must submit a copy of a current ACM or IEEE 
student membership card or a copy of a current student 
identification card.

Government Discount:  To qualify for a government discount, a 
registrant must submit a copy of a current government 
identification card.

Nonprofit Discount:  To qualify for a nonprofit discount, 
registrants must provide a copy of their organization's 
501(c)(3) status from the IRS. 

Payment

A check, money order, or valid MasterCard or Visa card 
authorization must accompany all registrations.  Checks or 
money orders must be in U.S. funds drawn on U.S. banks and 
made payable to MCNC.  Send payment and conference 
registration form to:

MCNC
Post Office Box 12889
3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park
NC 27709-2889   
USA   
Attention:  
Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey
Fax:  919-248-1445

Registration will not be valid until payment is received.  

The registration fee covers participation in  all exhibits, all 
panels, all lectures, up to two tutorials and one workshop; 
one copy of the workshop proceedings; all registration 
materials; refreshments during breaks; AVS Video Review 
Theatre; and an evening reception with canapes and hors 
doeuvres.  Tutorials and workshops are subject to 
availability due to limited seating and limited commitment 
of workstations.  Attendees may participate in additional 
workshops and tutorials at the rate of $150 per workshop 
and $50 per tutorial. The first 200 registrants receive a 
complimentary AVS '93 mug. There is no reduced fee for 
attending only part of the conference.

Refunds

	To receive a 100% refund, a written request must be 
received before May 1, 1993.  Send written requests to:

MCNC
Post Office Box 12889
3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park 
NC 27709-2889
USA
Attention:  
Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey

	No verbal requests for refunds will be accepted. No 
refunds will be issued after May 1, 1993.

Airline Information

Orlando International Airport accommodates most 
major airlines that serve the area surrounding the WALT 
DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN.  Service carriers include Delta, 
American, Bahamasair, British Airways, Continental, 
Iceland, KLM, Northwest, Sky Bus, Trump Shuttle, TWA, 
United, USAir, and Virgin Atlantic.

Local Transportation

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN is located at 1500 
EPCOT Resorts Boulevard in Lake Buena Vista, two miles 
southwest of the Interstate 4 and State Route 536 
intersection.  Rental cars are available at Orlando 
International Airport.  In addition, buses depart the airport 
for the WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN every half hour 
with fares of $12.50 for adults and $9.50 for children ages 
4-14.  Taxi fare from the airport to the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN is approximately $25.

WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN

All AVS '93 events are held at the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN, a year-round resort in the center of the 
WALT DISNEY WORLD Resort between EPCOT Center and The 
Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park.  The hotel is located near 
Typhoon Lagoon, Pleasure Island, and the MAGIC KINGDOM 
Park.  The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN has seven 
restaurants and four lounges offering an extraordinary 
variety of American, Chinese, and Italian cuisine.
AVS '93 has a reserved block of discounted rooms at the 
WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN.

Daily rates for single or double:  $130
Government, student, or nonprofit:  $100 single, $120 double
(current and valid identification must be presented to the
hotel in order to receive these rates)
Extra-person charge per room:  $15
Children under age 18:  Free with parents (using existing 
bedding)
Sales tax:  6%
Resort tax:  4%
Check-in time:  3 p.m.
Check-out time:  11 a.m.
Payment:  Personal checks, money orders, or valid credit 
card

Please make reservations directly with the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN by sending in the hotel registration form in the 
back of this booklet, by fax at 407-934-4710, or by mail.  
Please indicate your affiliation with MCNC's International 
AVS User Group Conference and Exhibition.

Accommodations for Guests with Disabilities

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN has 43 accessible 
rooms designed for guests with limited mobility, including 
guests in wheelchairs.  For more information on special-
needs accommodations at the WALT DISNEY WORLD 
DOLPHIN, telephone 1-800-227-1500.

Spouse/Family Program

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN offers numerous 
services to assist guests with transportation and admission 
to a variety of attractions such as the EPCOT Center, 
Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park, Typhoon Lagoon, 
Pleasure Island, the MAGIC KINGDOM Park, River Country, 
and Discovery Island.

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN itself contains 
numerous boutiques and gift shops and features the 
following amenities.

 	Supervised youth programs
 	Game rooms
 	Health studio
 	Grotto pool
 	White-sand beach
 	Tennis courts
 	Volleyball courts
 	Sailboats and paddle boats
 	Nearby golf courses

Further details are available through the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN reservations desk, telephone 1-800-
227-1500.

Area Attractions

	The seven theme lands of the WALT DISNEY WORLD 
Magic Kingdom Park are designed to bring out the child in 
everyone.  Main Street U.S.A. is a re-creation of turn-of-
the-century America.  Adventureland features a jungle 
cruise and an encounter with pirates.  Other areas are 
Frontierland, Liberty Square, Fantasyland, Tomorrowland, 
and Mickeys Starland.  All feature theme rides and shows.
	The newest addition to the WALT DISNEY WORLD theme 
park family is the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park.  
Visitors can stroll Hollywood Boulevard as it was in the 
magical '30s and '40s, and then take the fabulous Backstage 
Studio Tour with Catastrophe Canyon, a special effects 
adventure.  The Magic of Disney Animation features a walk 
through the fascinating world of animation.  Disney-MGM 
Studios Theme Park offers exciting opportunities to see 
actual movies and television shows being made, from 
filming to postproduction.
	WALT DISNEY WORLD attractions also feature enough 
golf courses and tennis courts to challenge even the most 
accomplished athlete.  And theme-oriented nightclubs create 
worlds of excitement to celebrate till dawn.

Questions?

	Administrative questions regarding AVS '93 should be 
directed to Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey at 919-248-1841, 
email gebuhr@mcnc.org.  Technical questions and questions 
about AVS User Group membership should be directed to 
David Bennett at 919-248-1182, email avs@ncsc.org.  
Exhibition questions should be directed to Ann Cadran at 
919-248-1432, email cadran@mcnc.org. 
AVS Video Review Theatre questions should be directed to 
Steve Thorpe at 919-248-1161, email avs@ncsc.org.

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2nd Annual International AVS User Group Conference and Exhibition 
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                       Course Selection

Advance registration is required for all lectures, tutorials, 
workshops, and panels in order to coordinate seating and room 
space. Space availability cannot be guaranteed at on-site 
registration.  Tutorials and workshops are hands-on and require 
basic knowledge of AVS.  Exceptions are the Network Editor,  AVS 
Animator, the Geometry Viewer, and the Overview of AVS 5.0 
tutorials.

NOTE: Workshops and Tutorials are hands-on courses.  If you register
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                            REGISTRATION FEE
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The registration fee covers exhibits, panels, lectures, up to two 
tutorials and one workshop, one copy of the workshop proceedings, 
registration materials, refreshments during breaks, AVS Video 
Review Theatre, and an evening reception.


				Early Registration	After March 1, 1993
			(postmarked on or before 3/1/93)

AVS user group member		$495				$570
Nonmember			$545				$620

(You must provide a copy of current identification or documentation 
for the following categories.)

Student/government/nonprofit
member of AVS user group	$395                            $470

Student/government/nonprofit
nonmember 			$445				$520

Each additional workshop 	$150				$150
(one included with base registration) 

Each additional  tutorial 	$ 50				$ 50
(two included with base registration)
	
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Please fax or mail your registration form.  Make fees payable to 
MCNC by check, money order, MasterCard, or Visa.  Checks must be 
in U.S. dollars and drawn on U.S. banks.  Telephone registrations will 
not be accepted.  Faxed registrations must include credit card 
numbers and signatures. The deadline for advance registration is 
May 14, 1993.  After May 14, 1993, you must register on site.  MCNC 
cannot be responsible for or confirm registrations mailed after this 
date.

Please check form of payment.

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Credit card number: 				Amount $:
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Name as it appears on credit card:
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Expiration date:
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Authorized signature (required):
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Cancellation/Refund Policy

Written cancellations received before May 1, 1993, will receive full 
refund of conference registration fee.

Complete and return this form with your payment to:

			     MCNC
	Post Office Box 12889	3021 Cornwallis Road
   Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2889 USA
	Phone 919-248-1841	Fax 919-248-1445
	  Attention:  Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey

	       KEEP A COPY FOR YOUR RECORDS.


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			HOTEL REGISTRATION FORM
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				AVS '93 
    2nd Annual International AVS User Group Conference and Exhibition
		      WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN
	            1500 EPCOT Resorts Boulevard
			Post Office Box 22653
	           Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830-2653
		            407-934-4290
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(Check in 3 p.m.; check out 11 a.m.)

Room Fees (If selected room is unavailable, one at the nearest rate 
will be reserved.  Rates are subject to 6% sales tax and 4% resort tax.)  
Published rates are applicable two days prior and two days after the 
conference dates.

Student/government/nonprofit rate:	$100 single, $120 double  
(Proper documentation must be presented for this category.)

Regular conference rate:		$130 single/double

Room required:
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Conference rate applies only to reservations made up until April 20.  
Every effort will be made to confirm room selection.  A deposit equal 
to one nights stay is required to hold a reservation.  Failure to cancel 
a reservation five days prior to arrival results in forfeit of deposit.  
Reservations are subject to cancellation if deposit is not received.  
Extra-person charges are $15 per night.  Children under 18 may stay 
at no cost with parents, provided no extra bedding is needed.

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Complete and return this form with your payment or credit card 
authorization to WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN,1500 EPCOT Resorts 
Boulevard, Post Office Box 22653, Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830-2653.   
Fax 407-934-4710.   DO NOT SEND THIS FORM TO MCNC.
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                        	AVS '93
	         2nd Annual International AVS User Group 
                       Conference and Exhibition
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AVS '93, the 2nd Annual International AVS User Group 
Conference and Exhibition, is presented by the International 
AVS Center and the North Carolina Supercomputing Center, a 
division of MCNC, in cooperation with the AVS Consortium.  The 
AVS Consortium consists of Advanced Visual Systems Inc., 
CONVEX Computer Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, 
Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Kubota Pacific Company Inc., 
and SUN Microsystems Inc.

MCNC is a private, nonprofit research consortium involving 
North Carolina and its industry, universities, and research 
institutes.  MCNC provides advanced capabilities and expertise 
in microelectronics, communications, and high-performance 
computing to support industry, education, and research in 
North Carolina.  It promotes joint research opportunities among 
its industry and academic consortium members and addresses 
specific technology challenges.

NCSC supports industrial and academic initiatives through 
research collaborations, partnerships, computational science 
support, high-performance computing, education programs, and 
related activities.  NCSC also facilitates research in the areas of 
computational science, scientific visualization, and computer 
science.

The International AVS Center, housed at NCSC, is the worldwide 
clearinghouse for collecting, porting, and distributing public-
domain visualization modules.  These modules enable dramatic 
advances in the scope and speed of research in a variety of 
disciplines.  The International AVS Center serves as a catalyst 
for expanding the AVS user base and for increasing AVS 
functionality by fostering discipline-specific module 
development and new AVS uses.


*****************************************************************
               Advance Program Image Credits
*****************************************************************

Center Image
Computed Fermi surface for the high-temperature 92 K 123 
superconductor, with colors representing the Fermi 
velocity.  From Pickett, Krakauer, Cohen, and Singh, Science  
255, 46-54, 1992; cover image by Ronald E. Cohen of the 
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC.

Border Image
Image processing for regional identification, with 
urbanization highlighted in red.  Image by Wes Bethel of 
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.

Right Interior Image
Molecular dynamics simulation of particles colliding with a 
spherical boundary.  Image by Ken Flurchick of the North 
Carolina Supercomputing Center (NCSC), Research Triangle 
Park, NC.  Original AVS module written by NCSCs Dave 
Bock.

Left Interior Image
Three-dimensional surface representation of the binding 
pocket of an antibody containing a synthetic peptide 
consisting of residues 100-108 of the influenza virus 
hemagglutinin protein.  Image by U. Schulze-Gahmen and M. 
Pique of the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La 
Jolla, CA.
-- 
International AVS Center
North Carolina Supercomputing Center
avs@ncsc.org


From madhatta@plume.mit.edu (Tom Yates)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: hidden line removal
Date: 9 Feb 1993 20:28:01 GMT
Organization: CMPO at MIT
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Keywords: AVS hidden line DEC PXG

we are running AVS on a DECStation 5000/240 with a 24plane PXG board.

the hidden line removal does not work properly, and never has, in that when
i rotate a rendered geometry, parts that should be at the back come to the
front and parts that should be at the front become obscured.

this applies even to the demo programs - the teapot appears to have the
spout rotating one way and the lid the other - and it's making AVS useless
for visualisation purposes.

when we upgraded to AVS 4.0 i had hoped this would disappear, but it didn't.

i did find, however, that disabling harware rendering caused the problem to
vanish.  this is not an acceptable long-term solution, as the people who
shelled out large wonga for the PXG board are unhappy that we are not using
it.  it's also extremely slow.

so: has anyone else got this setup for AVS?
    have they had this problem with it?
    can anyone shed any light on it?

thanks.

tom yates   -   madhatta@teaparty.mit.edu   -   1 617 253 5259
visiting scientist
physical oceanography group
eaps dept., mit



From mayer@piis05.joanneum.ac.at (Mayer Harald)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: AVS and dialsbox
Date: 9 Feb 1993 13:21:13 GMT
Organization: Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria
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I need some help concerning dials boxes.

We are using DEC AVS 4.0 (25.137 DEC). When we start AVS with the -dials
option there comes the following message:

	This AVS implementation does not support the dialsbox device.

So here are my questions:
o is there an AVS version for DEC which supports a dialsbox?

o if yes, what kind of dialsbox do we need. Is it possible to use a
  SGI dialsbox?

Thanks,

Harald
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From enxing@hitu.zko.dec.com (Hugh Enxing)
Subject: Re: hidden line removal
Message-ID: <1993Feb10.140956.2988@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
Keywords: AVS hidden line DEC PXG
Sender: usenet@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com (USENET News System)
Reply-To: enxing@hitu.zko.dec.com (Hugh Enxing)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 14:09:56 GMT
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I assume you mean "hidden surface removal".

This is caused by no Z-Buffer hardware on your PXG board. This is sold as
optional hardware, but hidden surface removal is not supported without it.
If you went through a Digital Sales Representative, and if he knew you
were going to run DEC AVS on this configuration, he should have told you
to purchase the optional Z-Buffer hardware.

Without hidden surface removal, rendering is occuring in "traversal order"
(i.e. whatever comes first in the traversal hierarchy) which is useless.

Hugh Enxing
Digital Equipment Corporation
Nashua, NH

enxing@dssdev.enet.dec.com


From enxing@hitu.zko.dec.com (Hugh Enxing)
Subject: Re: AVS and dialsbox
Message-ID: <1993Feb10.141702.3234@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 14:17:02 GMT
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In article <1l8b49INN8ps@fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at>, mayer@piis05.joanneum.ac.at (Mayer Harald) writes:
|> Path: nntpd2.cxo.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!news.crl.dec.com!deccrl!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at!piis05.joanneum.ac.at!mayer
|> From: mayer@piis05.joanneum.ac.at (Mayer Harald)
|> Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
|> Subject: AVS and dialsbox
|> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 08:21:13 GMT-0:01
|> Organization: Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria
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|> 
|> I need some help concerning dials boxes.
|> 
|> We are using DEC AVS 4.0 (25.137 DEC). When we start AVS with the -dials
|> option there comes the following message:
|> 
|> 	This AVS implementation does not support the dialsbox device.
|> 
|> So here are my questions:
|> o is there an AVS version for DEC which supports a dialsbox?
|> 

Not currently. We are working on it now. It should be available in
field test versions in a few months. This is NOT a commitment of any sort.

|> o if yes, what kind of dialsbox do we need. Is it possible to use a
|>   SGI dialsbox?

I don't know where/who/what, but it will be the same dialsbox supported
by DEC PHIGS, if that's of any help.

|> 
|> Thanks,
|> 
|> Harald
|> --
|> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|>  Harald Mayer                         | X.400:    mayer@joanneum.ada.at
|>  Joanneum Research                    | Internet: mayer@pbox.joanneum.ac.at
|>  Institute for Information Systems    | VoiceNet: +43 (316) 8020 - 136
|>  Steyrergasse 17       	              | FaxNet:   +43 (316) 8020 - 181
|>  A-8010 Graz, Austria                 |
|> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> 


Hugh Enxing
Digital Equipment Corporation
Nashua, NH

enxing@dssdev.enet.dec.com


From ahaus@dke.uni-linz.ac.at (Andreas Hausleitner)
Subject: isosurface-construction
Message-ID: <1993Feb10.145405.8030@alijku05.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
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Organization: Johannes Kepler Universitaet
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 14:54:05 GMT
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Hallo!

I`ve just written an AVS-Module to generate isosurfaces from 3D-data fields.
For this implementation I used the standard "Marching-Cubes"-algorithm.
Does anyone have some information for enhancements of the "Marching-Cube"
algorithm or another surface-creation algorithm. Please send or mail me help
like sources of papers or algorithms.

Thanks
Andreas Hausleitner

Institute for Graphical 
and Parallel Computation
Johannes Kepler University Linz
email: ahaus@gup.uni-linz.ac.at


From kaplan@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Brian Kaplan)
Subject: New Module:  Keyframe Animator 3.00 (beta)
Message-ID: <C28tr2.MIJ@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Summary: Keyframe Animator V3.00 available from ftp.cica.indiana.edu
Keywords: AVS,animation,keyframe,quaternion
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CICA AVS4 KEYFRAME ANIMATOR MODULE V3.00 (BETA)

Please note that this module is in Beta release.  Please report any bugs
to the address at the bottom of this file.  Please note that this software
runs only under the Application Visualization System (AVS) environment.

Keyframe Animator
   Does interactive keyframe animation of any number of AVS objects.
   Rotations can be interpolated using quaternions.  Objects can also
   be translated, scaled, and parented to other objects.  Rotations,
   translations, and scales can be interpolated linearly or using
   splines.

This module has been tested using AVS4 on a Silicon Graphics workstation and
a Kubota Titan computer.

The modules and documentation are available via anonymous ftp from
ftp.cica.indiana.edu (129.79.20.84) in the sub-directory pub/avs.

This software is free but we ask that:

        1) You fill out the registration form included in the
           file "REGISTRATION".
        2) You let us know of any enhancements you make to the software.
        3) If you use the software in any form that you acknowledge its origin.
        4) No charge is demanded for software containing any part of this
           code.  See the file "COPYRIGHT" for full copyright information.

We are interested also in any comments you might have or features
and enhancements you would like to see in future releases.  We are interested
in keeping track of who is using the modules so that we can inform you of
future releases, enhancements, and modifications.  Please mail the
registration form to:

kaplan@cica.indiana.edu

Brian Kaplan
Center for Innovative Computer Applications
Indiana University
Poplars 808
Bloomington, IN 47405

812-855-6973

----------

Features of Keyframe Animator V3.00:

	Animates any number of AVS objects.

	Supports parenting of objects.

	Performs rotation interpolation using quaternions to produce more 
	intuitive interpolation.

	Supports linear and spline interpolation of rotations, translations,
	and scales, as well as ease-in and ease-out features.

	Allows full control over interpolations including control over which
	transformations are interpolated, over which frames they are 
	interpolated, and what method of interpolation is used for any
	given interval.

	Animations can be previewed in loop, swing, or once only modes.

	Objects can be added to the database using picking with the mouse.
	The current object can be selected using the mouse.  Object
	transformations can be performed using any input device supported
	by AVS (mouse, spaceball, dialbox).

	Keyframe Animator module can be synchronized with external modules
	(extremely useful for recording animations to video).

----------

Changes since last release:

The Keyframe Animator is now a coroutine module instead of a subroutine,
allowing animations to be viewed without a driver coroutine module (see
"animate" button below).  The "pulse in" input is now invisible since it
isn't used as often.

Matrix rotations are no longer supported.  All rotation interpolations
are done as quaternion rotations.

Quaternion spline rotation has been implimented.

The code has been cleaned up and several bug fixes made.

The objects can now be manipulated with any device AVS supports (mouse,
dialbox, spaceball).  The Xwindows code has been removed, and mouse
manipulations are no longer implimented as part of the Keyframe
Animator (they are handled by AVS).

Interactive picking and manipulation of objects has been greatly improved.

The file format has been changed.  Separate x, y, and z rotations are no
longer supported since rotations are allways stored as quaternions.

The documentation has been changed to reflect all changes.

Several button names have been changed.
A few have changed slightly in behavior:
        transformation dials
                have been removed.  They are no longer needed.  Objects
                can be manipulated with the mouse, dialbox, or spaceball
                using the standard AVS interface.

        once,loop,swing
                have been added.  these affect the behavior of the arrow
                keys when reaching the edge of the animation window.
                they also affect the playback of the animation when
                controlled by an animation driver module or the
                "animate" button.

        animate
                has been added.  this button turns on "update frame" and
                runs through the animation in either "once," "loop," or
                "swing" modes.

        object attributes
                "rotation" attribute is no longer used.  "colortype"
                attribute is still not used.

        pick obj
                has been changed to "add obj" and is only needed to add
                objects to be controlled, or to replace the current
                object with another object.  it is no longer used to
                change the current object, which can be done with the
                left mouse button.

        "active" buttons
                have been changed to "ROTATE," "TRANSLATE," and "SCALE"
                which simplifies their use for the user.

        ALLon, ALLoff
                have been changed to "ACTIVATE ALL" and "DEACTIVATE
                ALL."  behaviors have not been changed.

        initialize dials
                has been changed to "initialize transformations."
                it's behavior has not been changed.

        create spline interpolation
                correctly spline interpolates quaternion rotations.

        clear frame information
                has been changed to "clear keys and frame information"
                and now clears all keyframes as well as the frame
                information within the current animation window.  to
                clear out only the frame information, press "next
                keyframe," "initialize transformations," "save
                keyframe," and "create hold".

        sync with driver
                has been changed to "drive."  when this
                button is lit, the "update frame" button is lit and
                disabled (the user cannot turn it off), and the
                animation pulse input is enabled.  the animation cannot
                be controlled by an upstream coroutine module without
                the "drive" button lit.



From kaplan@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Brian Kaplan)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs,comp.graphics.research,comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Keyframe Animator V3.00 available
Summary: Keyframe Animator V3.00 available from ftp.cica.indiana.edu
Keywords: avs,animation,quaternion,keyframe
Message-ID: <11988@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 93 18:19:03 GMT
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The Keyframe Animator module V3.00 will soon be released via ftp from
ftp.cica.indiana.edu (129.79.20.84).  The module runs within the Application
Visualization System (AVS) and facilitates the animation of 3D objects.
The file Keyframe.tar.Z is located in directory pub/avs/Keyframe.  The 
software has been tested on a Silicon Graphics Crimson and a Kubota Titan
computer under AVS3.

The software is free but we ask that:

        1) You fill out the registration form included in the
           file "REGISTRATION".
        2) You let us know of any enhancements you make to the software.
        3) If you use the software in any form that you acknowledge its origin.
        4) No charge is demanded for software containing any part of this
           code.  See the file "COPYRIGHT" for full copyright information.

For those who have not used previous version of the Keyframe Animator, some
of the features include:

o Full featured transformation interpolation based on keyframes.

o Spline and linear interpolation of rotations, translations, and scales.

o Quaternion rotation interpolation (including quaternion spline rotation
  interpolation).

o Ease-in and ease-out features.

o Separate control over rotation, translation, and scale interpolations.

o The ability to manipulate objects using any input devices supported by AVS
  (mouse, dialbox, spaceball).

o Parenting of objects.

o Loading and saving animations to disk.

o Playback of animation using loop, swing, or once only modes.

o Synchronization of animation playback with another module (for recording
  of animations to video).

Changes since the last version include:

The Keyframe Animator is now a coroutine module instead of a subroutine,
allowing animations to be viewed without a driver coroutine module (see
"animate" button below).  The "pulse in" input is now invisible since it
isn't often used.

Matrix rotations are no longer supported.  All rotation interpolation
is done as quaternion rotations.

Quaternion spline rotation has been implimented.

The code has been cleaned up and several bug fixes made.

The objects can now be manipulated with any device AVS supports (mouse,
dialbox, spaceball).  The Xwindows code has been removed, and mouse
manipulations are no longer implimented as part of the Keyframe
Animator (they are handled by AVS).

Interactive picking and manipulation of objects has been greatly improved.

The file format has been changed.  Separate x, y, and z rotations are no
longer supported since rotations are allways stored as quaternions.

The documentation has been changed to reflect all changes.

Several button names have been changed.
A few have changed slightly in behavior:
        transformation dials
                have been removed.  They are no longer needed.  Objects
                can be manipulated with the mouse, dialbox, or spaceball
                using the standard AVS interface.

        once,loop,swing
                have been added.  these affect the behavior of the arrow
                keys when reaching the edge of the animation window.
                they also affect the playback of the animation when
                controlled by an animation driver module or the
                "animate" button.

        animate
                has been added.  this button turns on "update frame" and
                runs through the animation in either "once," "loop," or
                "swing" modes.

        object attributes
                "rotation" attribute is no longer used.  "colortype"
                attribute is still not used.

        pick obj
                has been changed to "add obj" and is only needed to add
                objects to be controlled, or to replace the current
                object with another object.  it is no longer used to
                change the current object, which can be done with the
                left mouse button.

        "active" buttons
                have been changed to "ROTATE," "TRANSLATE," and "SCALE"
                which simplifies their use for the user.

        ALLon, ALLoff
                have been changed to "ACTIVATE ALL" and "DEACTIVATE
                ALL."  behaviors have not been changed.

        initialize dials
                has been changed to "initialize transformations."
                it's behavior has not been changed.

        create spline interpolation
                correctly spline interpolates quaternion rotations.

        clear frame information
                has been changed to "clear keys and frame information"
                and now clears all keyframes as well as the frame
                information within the current animation window.  to
                clear out only the frame information, press "next
                keyframe," "initialize transformations," "save
                keyframe," and "create hold".

        sync with driver
                has been changed to "drive."  when this
                button is lit, the "update frame" button is lit and
                disabled (the user cannot turn it off), and the
                animation pulse input is enabled.  the animation cannot
                be controlled by an upstream coroutine module without
                the "drive" button lit.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Brian Kaplan
kaplan@cica.indiana.edu
Center for Innovative Computer Applications
Indiana University
Poplars 808
Bloomington, IN 47405

812-855-6973



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From johani@mowitz.pdc.kth.se (Johan Ihren)
Subject: How to move an image into the geometry viewer?
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I need to have images available in the geometry viewer so that they
can be rotated, looked at from other perspectives etc. However, I've
not yet managed to achieve it.

The closest I've come (yet) is this:

	 		   read_image
		               |
  generate_colormap     extract_scalar
		 |	  |
		field_to_mesh
		      |
               geometry_viewer

This gives me a faint smell of what I want to achieve, but it is of
course all wrong: only one of the ARGB channels in the image is present
and the colors are all wrong. It is also horribly slow, but that is
something that I can accept for strange need like this.

Anyone got an idea of how to do this?

Johan Ihren, <johani@pdc.kth.se>, Center for Parallel Computers,
Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden


From larryg@avs.com (Larry Gelberg)
Subject: Re: How to move an image into the geometry viewer?
References: <JOHANI.93Feb11152249@mowitz.pdc.kth.se>
Sender: nobody@ctr.columbia.edu
Organization: Advanced Visual Systems Inc.
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 17:51:50 GMT
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: I need to have images available in the geometry viewer so that they
: can be rotated, looked at from other perspectives etc. However, I've
: not yet managed to achieve it.
: 
: The closest I've come (yet) is this:
: 
: 	 		   read_image
: 		               |
:   generate_colormap     extract_scalar
: 		 |	  |
: 		field_to_mesh
: 		      |
:                geometry_viewer
: 
: This gives me a faint smell of what I want to achieve, but it is of
: course all wrong: only one of the ARGB channels in the image is present
: and the colors are all wrong. It is also horribly slow, but that is
: something that I can accept for strange need like this.

Hello Johan,

I think the right way to approach your problem is to use 2D texture
mapping.  Texture Mapping is available via the software renderer on
all the platforms and via Hardware Rendering on the SGI and Stardent
machines.  You should also use Wes Bethel's module, texture_mesh, 
available at the International AVS Center's archive site (avs@ncsc.org).

Then your network should look like:

            READ IMAGE
         ________|
         |       |
         | EXTRACT SCALAR
         |       |
         |    DOWNSIZE
         |       | 
         | TEXTURE MESH
         |____   |
             |   |
         GEOMETRY VIEWER

Then your polygon mesh can be as high or low resolution as you want,
but the spatial resolution of the image will remain unchanged.  
Send me a message if you want clarification of any of this!

larryg

--
=== Larry Gelberg ============================ larryg@avs.com =======
      Advanced Visual Systems Inc. (AVS Inc.)
      300 Fifth Ave, Waltham, MA 02154
===== Tel: 617-890-4300 = Fax: 617-890-8287 =========================


From larryg@avs.com (Larry Gelberg)
Subject: Re: AVS - Address &/or Phone No.
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eigyfm@hpes5.sdrc.com (James Epperson) writes:
:    We are about to begin a project which will require 3d graphics within
: an X environment.  AVS software was recommended, but no address or phone
: number was given.  We would like to contact AVS about the possibility
: of using their product.  If anyone could give me their address and/or 
: phone number, it would be greatly appreceated.

The contact information for Advanced Visual Systems Inc. can be found
in the .Signature at the bottom of this message.  You can also send 
email to avs@avs.com.

Other contacts include:
	International AVS Center
	PO Box 12889
	3021 Cornwallis Road
	RTP, NC  27709-2889

	Tel: 919-248-1100
	Fax: 919-248-1101
	Email: avs@ncsc.org

I hope this helps!

larryg

--
=== Larry Gelberg ============================ larryg@avs.com =======
      Advanced Visual Systems Inc. (AVS Inc.)
      300 Fifth Ave, Waltham, MA 02154
===== Tel: 617-890-4300 = Fax: 617-890-8287 =========================


From katie@doppler.ncsc.org (Katie Mohrfeld)
Subject: Module Contest Winner
Message-ID: <C2B19L.8KD@doppler.ncsc.org>
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 22:03:21 GMT

----------------------------------------------------------------
CONTEST!!!   WINNER!!!    CONTEST!!!   WINNER!!!    CONTEST!!!
----------------------------------------------------------------

Hi AVSers,

The International AVS Center's module repository has been very
successful in its first year.  There are now over 600 public domain
AVS modules available for your scientific visualizatition use!  Thanks
to all who have so generously shared their work!

To encourage continued submissions, and as a reward for the modules
already contributed, the IAC is implementing a quarterly contest.  The
author of the "best" module contributed in a quarter will receive
his/her choice of $250 cash (U.S. funds), or $250 credit towards
attendance at AVS '93 ( to be held May 24-26 in Orlando, Florida ).
Some of the criteria considered in a module's evaluation include the
module's:

	1)  Utility 
	2)  Uniqueness
	3)  Popularity 

These are not necessarily all inclusive or in any particular order.
The final decision as to who wins the award will be made by the IAC.

The contest will be for three quarters, October 1, 1992 until December
31, 1992, January 1, 1993 until March 31, 1993 and lastly, April 1,
1993 until May 1, 1993.  The reason for the shortened spring '93
quarter is to allow the IAC to present awards to the winner at the AVS
'93 conference on May 24, 1993.  Submissions for each quarter must be
received before midnight on the final day (EST).

We have selected ** Jonathon Cox **, from the University of
Manchester, as the lucky winner for Q4 1992.  Jonathon has contributed
two modules, ucd_line and ucd_planes, each among the top 10 most
popular modules submitted during Q4 1992.  Thanks from the IAC and all
the AVS User community!

Please Note:
IAC and MCNC staff and their families are not eligible for the
contest.  Employees and their families from Advanced Visual Systems,
Inc are also not eligible for the contest.  All other entries will be
equally considered.  We are a non-profit organization.

Have fun coding, and thanks again for an extremely successful first
year!


International AVS Center Contact Info:
-------------------------------------
International AVS Center
North Carolina Supercomputing Center
3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

Please send AVS related articles for the AVS Network News magazine.

avs93@ncsc.org	   email for here information on The 2nd Annual 
		   International AVS User's Group Conference, to be 
		   held May 24-26, 1993 outside of Orlando, Florida

avs@ncsc.org	   email questions to IAC staff here

avsemail@ncsc.org  email anything here to receive an automated
		   reply including the latest module catalog,
		   AVS User Group registration information, and
		   the latest IAC readme

avs.ncsc.org	   ftp address of the IAC's anonymous ftp site
(128.109.178.23)

919-248-1100	   Our phone number - though frequently its easier to
		   track us down via email to avs@ncsc.org 

919-248-1101	   Our FAX number



Katie

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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - integer_to_real
Message-ID: <C2B1A4.8Mx@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 22:03:40 GMT

Name        : integer_to_real Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1572 
Author      : Lars M. Bishop, National Center for Comp. Elect., Univ. of
              Illinois
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : DEC Convex IBM
Description : Integer to Real simply takes in an integer-valued input
              port, and passes its truncation to the output port as a real.
              This module is part of the the Real Math module group, which
              is a single file, process-sharing set of modules that allow
              basic operations on and between integer and real AVS data
              types. They have been most useful in dealing with linkage of
              several AVS parameters. AVS has no simple way of performing
              math operations on reals, even though it does allow math
              operations on fields.
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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - real_to_integer
Message-ID: <C2B1Gx.907@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 22:07:45 GMT

Name        : real_to_integer Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1573 
Author      : Lars M. Bishop, National Center for Comp. Elect., Univ. of
              Illinois
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : DEC Convex IBM
Description : The Real to Integer module simply takes in a real- valued
              input port, and passes its truncation to the output port as
              an integer. This module is part of the the Real Math module
              group, which is a single file, process-sharing set of
              modules that allow basic operations on and between integer
              and real AVS data types. They have been most useful in
              dealing with linkage of several AVS parameters. AVS has no
              simple way of performing math operations on reals, even
              though it does allow math operations on fields.
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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - real_math
Message-ID: <C2B1s9.9uq@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 22:14:33 GMT

Name        : real_math       Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1574 
Author      : Lars M. Bishop, National Center for Comp. Elect., Univ. of
              Illinois
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : DEC Convex IBM
Description : This module works with the same interface as the Field Math
              module, with two input ports (one required, one optional),
              and one output. If the operation selected from the control
              panel is unary, then the required input port is used as the
              operand. If the operation is binary, then both ports are
              used if they are both connected. If only the required port is
              connected, then the required port, and the scalar
              parameter are used as the two operands. It is the user's
              responsibility to assure that the values sent to this
              module are in the domain of the selected function. This
              module is part of the the Real Math module group, which is a
              single file, process-sharing set of modules that allow
              basic operations on and between integer and real AVS data
              types. They have been most useful in dealing with linkage of
              several AVS parameters. AVS has no simple way of performing
              math operations on reals, even though it does allow math
              operations on fields.
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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - print_real
Message-ID: <C2B2uM.Axy@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 22:37:34 GMT

Name        : print_real      Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1575 
Author      : Lars M. Bishop, National Center for Comp. Elect., Univ. of
              Illinois
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : DEC Convex IBM
Description : Print real creates a widget on the control panel that will
              contain the value of the module's input port. This module is
              part of the the Real Math module group, which is a single
              file, process-sharing set of modules that allow basic
              operations on and between integer and real AVS data types.
              They have been most useful in dealing with linkage of
              several AVS parameters. AVS has no simple way of performing
              math operations on reals, even though it does allow math
              operations on fields.
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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - write_rgb_sequen
Message-ID: <C2B3Bv.BMt@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 22:47:55 GMT

Name        : write_rgb_sequenVersion      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1576 
Author      : Michael Rangitsch and Terry Myerson, Dow Chemical and
              International AVS Center
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : Sun DEC HP IBM
Description : This module writes a series of images in the rgb format from
              an AVS Network. The file names are constructed from the base
              file name and the frame number as such <base file
              name>.<frame number>.rgb The frame number is padded to the
              left with "0" to allow proper sequencing of frames. The
              intent of this is to allow conversion of a sequence of images
              into the rgb format for video production.
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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - write_pict_seque
Message-ID: <C2B3Hn.BtC@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 22:51:23 GMT

Name        : write_pict_sequeVersion      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1577 
Author      : Michael Rangitsch and Terry Myerson, Dow Chemical and
              International AVS Center
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : Sun DEC HP IBM
Description : This module writes a series of images in the pict format from
              an AVS Network. The file names are constructed from the base
              file name and the frame number as such <base file
              name>.<frame number>.pict The frame number is padded to
              the left with "0" to allow proper sequencing of frames. The
              intent of this is to allow conversion of a sequence of images
              into the pict format for video production.
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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - Image_to_Postscr
Message-ID: <C2B3rw.C6H@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 22:57:32 GMT

Name        : Image_to_PostscrVersion      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1578 
Author      : Lars M. Bishop, National Center for Comp. Elect., Univ. of
              Illinois
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : DEC Kubota Convex IBM
Description : The Image to Postrscript module is a module that prints an
              Adobe Postscript file containing the image that is
              connected to the input port. It is designed to give the user a
              wide variety of image sizes, orientations, positions, and
              qualities. Note that the Dump to File button must be pressed
              to dump the image to the file, as the dump may take several
              seconds.
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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - river_bed
Message-ID: <C2B468.D1B@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 23:06:07 GMT

Name        : river_bed       Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1579 
Author      : Ken Flurchick, North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : FORTRAN  
Ported to   : Kubota Convex HP IBM
Description : This module is used to construct the outline of a river bed.
              The length parameter specifies the length of the river in
              grid cells and coordinates. The river starts at y
              coordinate 0 and extends downward to y coordinate length at
              y index length. The river is constructed in the xy plane.
              Width specifies the width of the river in the x direction in
              grid cells. Width has nothing to do with the shape of the
              river. The outline of the river is built from a set of
              sinusoidal line segments of the form A
              AVScontrol.tmp16539 make.Convex make.HP make.IBM
              make.Kubota river.f river.net river_bed.txt Sin (wt) + O,
              where A - Amplitude w - Omega t - Length O - Offset. The data set
              that is constructed is filled with 0's initially. This
              module subroutine can be conected to the "river fill"
              coroutine to create a simulation of river contaminants.
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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - river_fill
Message-ID: <C2B4CA.DBx@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 23:09:45 GMT

Name        : river_fill      Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1580 
Author      : Ken Flurchick, North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : DEC Kubota Convex HP IBM
Description : This module is a coroutine which continuously pads a
              two-dimensional array with data until it is turned off.
              This can be used with the "river bed" module which generates
              the coordinates for the array, to show a simulation of
              concentration over time.
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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - ccyl_pipe
Message-ID: <C2B4JA.E56@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 23:13:57 GMT

Name        : ccyl_pipe       Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1581 
Author      : Ken Flurchick, North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : DEC Kubota Convex HP IBM
Description : This module defines the cylindrical geometry coordinates
              which can used by "volume bounds" (a supported module) to
              draw a hull. This module also passes the geometry field to
              "newfilla" (available via anonymous ftp) which in turn
              fills the cylindrical geometry with data.
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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - newfilla
Message-ID: <C2B4qC.EGB@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 23:18:12 GMT

Name        : newfilla        Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1582 
Author      : Ken Flurchick, North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : DEC Kubota Convex HP IBM
Description : Inputs a field from "ccyl_pipe" (available via anonymous
              ftp) and fills a cylindrical geometry. This module will
              read each time step of data from a separate file using
              "animate filename"
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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - load_mdn
Message-ID: <C2B4xz.FCD@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 23:22:46 GMT

Name        : load_mdn        Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1583 
Author      : Ken Flurchick, North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : DEC Kubota HP IBM
Description : This is an enhancement of the load_md module already
              available. This module is designed to read in one time step
              of data from a series of input files and provide the user with
              the ability to select an individual time step or cycle
              through a series of selected time steps. Module has been
              used to visualized the dynamics of a given set of molecules
              over a specified period of time. Module simply loads the
              user-specified time steps of molecular coordinates and
              generates a sphere for every molecule at the stored
              coordinates. This module has the option of specifying the
              data file through animated filename, for multiple files,
              or with a file browser widget for a single file. The default
              is to use the animated filename input port, but if this value
              is set to $NULL then the module will use the file browser.
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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - ReadSeqAnim
Message-ID: <C2B63J.GCD@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 23:47:43 GMT

Name        : ReadSeqAnim     Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1584 
Author      : Ion Barosan, Eindhoven University of Technology, The
              Netherlands
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : DEC Kubota Convex IBM
Description : The read_seq input modules sends a sequence of files'
              names, to a string parameter ports. Its purpose is to
              generate a sequence of files names, a sequence which will be
              used as input for different data input modules. It has four
              parameters, called "File name", "Animation On/Off",
              "Current step", and "Nr.frames". In a typical network with
              read_seq, before you can connect the character string to
              the receiving module,you must make that receiving
              module's parameter port visible.
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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - Splash
Message-ID: <C2B6E8.Gq1@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 23:54:08 GMT

Name        : Splash          Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1585 
Author      : Marc Curry, North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : DEC Kubota Convex HP IBM
Description : This module is a simple C subroutine that will output a
              variety of surfaces/colors depending upon what 3-D
              mathematical function you choose it to have. The basic
              framework for the existing module example simply computes
              the distance from the center of a 100x100 grid (R =
              sqrt(r1*r1 + r2*r2)) and multiplies it by a sinusoidal
              factor (cos(scale AVScontrol.tmp21314 Splash.c
              Splash.net Splash.txt make.Convex make.DEC make.HP
              make.IBM make.Kubota R)) where scale is a scaling
              parameter, used to give it the waviness (z-dimension) we
              want. You can make it very interesting by attaching the
              "animated float" module to the widget input port instead of
              the float dial! The example network provided does this.
              This is a great example to learn how to manipulate AVS
              fields.
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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - contour_to_posts
Message-ID: <C2B7qt.Iys@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 00:23:16 GMT

Name        : contour_to_postsVersion      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1586 
Author      : Rob Kuyper, University of Technology Delft, The
              Netherlands
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : Sun DEC Kubota HP
Description : "contour to postscript" is the ultimate contour module.
              All the things you expect of a contour module are built in
              this one! Automatic scaling, min/max scaling, typein
              levels. Colormap port to color the contours. Postscript
              output for contours - straight lines on the plot ! If the
              dataset is positioned in e.g. the y-z plane, only the y-z
              coordinates are used in the Postscript output. After
              compilation the world of interactive contour and
              Postscript generation opens up to you.
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From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - colorizer_2d
Message-ID: <C2B838.JB4@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 00:30:44 GMT

Name        : colorizer_2d    Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1587 
Author      : Wes Bethel, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Submitted   : 02/11/93        Last Updated : 02/11/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   :
Description : Similar to the "colorizer" module in function, this module
              will take scalar data along with a colormap, and produce
              color data. Whereas the "colorizer" module takes a single
              scalar field and a single colormap, "colorizer 2d" takes
              TWO scalar fields (of the same dimensions) and TWO
              colormaps. The resulting color vector produced is a
              function of the two scalar values and the two colormaps.
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From gperkes@st.nepean.uws.edu.au (Graeme Perkes)
Subject: PC based version of AVS???
Message-ID: <1993Feb15.003914.2135@uws.EDU.AU>
Sender: news@uws.EDU.AU
Organization: University of Western Sydney, Nepean
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 00:39:14 GMT
Lines: 29

Hi,

I recently saw a demonstartion of AVS and was impressed by its
flexibility.

Does anyone know if AVS is likely to be ported to IBM compatible PC
(e.g 486DX) under any of the following operating systems:

	MS-DOS	 
	OS/2
	Windows NT (if it is ever released)  
	a PC based UNIX such as SCO's Open Desktop 
        or even LINUX (a Public Domain UNIX for PC's)

I have AVS in mind for a GIS application that would be more suitable
for a PC environment.

I would prefer replies via e-mail. I will post any replies I receive
to this group.

Thank you,

========================================================================
 Graeme Perkes                        | Internet: 
 B. App. Science -                    |    gperkes@st.nepean.uws.edu.au  
    Computing (Hons) Student          |---------------------------------
 University of Western Sydney, Nepean |  Witty quote ommitted.
 NSW, Australia                       |  
========================================================================


From thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (Steve Thorpe)
Subject: AVS 5 Announcement
Message-ID: <C2K6t4.EsB@doppler.ncsc.org>
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 20:41:27 GMT

Hi Folks,

FYI - we recently received this AVS 5 announcement from AVS Inc.

BTW, only 3 months and 8 days until AVS '93!  Get your 
registrations in during the next 2 weeks for an early 
bird discount of $75....

See you in Florida!

-Steve

PS  Would you be interested in sharing your AVS work with the
scientific visualization community worldwide via a short article 
and / or slides in an upcoming issue of AVS Network News?  This 
is the IAC's quarterly magazine made up of user contributed 
articles.  Also, we are soliciting short AVS animations on video
tape for the video theater at AVS '93, and posters for the poster
session.  Thanks for considering this!
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Advanced Visual Systems Introduces 
New Visualization Software For Application Developers

Adds New Features From SunVision For Imaging and Volume Rendering

Waltham, Mass., February 16, 1993 -- Advanced Visual Systems Inc. today
announced a powerful new version of its popular AVSTM visualization
software that includes a host of enhanced features to help application
developers, scientists, engineers, and other business professionals develop
graphics-based applications and perform data visualization and analysis.  

  The fifth release of the Application Visualization System (AVS) expands
the spectrum of tools used to develop visual computing applications that
process and display complex data and images.  AVS5 also incorporates
significant new imaging and volume rendering features from the SunVision
technology that Advanced Visual Systems acquired from Sun Microsystems.

  AVS is the leading visual computing software platform, combining
advanced data analysis and visualization capabilities to help scientists,
engineers, and analysts gain insight from the large volumes of data
generated by medical imaging systems, satellite-based sensors,
computational simulations, and many other sources. 

  AVS is increasingly used as a development environment to build
applications in areas such as medical imaging, engineering analysis,
financial modeling, environmental studies, and oil and gas exploration and
production.   Application developers can build and deploy AVS-based
vertical applications containing the AVS runtime environment.

  "Together with the advent of low-cost, high-performance graphics
workstations, AVS is helping visual computing migrate out of the research
lab and into mainstream business and industrial operations," said Ian Reid,
vice president of marketing for Advanced Visual Systems.  

  "AVS provides a platform-independent framework supplying the 3D
graphics, advanced visualization techniques, user interface, and
distributed computing functions needed by today's visual applications.  A
development team can focus its efforts on user-visible vertical application
functionality instead of system environment issues," Reid added.  "The
benefits are better applications in the hands of end-users -- much faster
and with less development resources."


AVS5

  AVS5 provides a set of new features that are the direct result of AVS
customer feedback.  In addition, the acquisition of the SunVision product
from Sun Microsystems has provided significant new functionality in areas
of imaging and volume rendering to AVS.  

The new features found in AVS5 include:
	
  Enhanced Application Development and Delivery Tools --  A new release of
Developers AVS and the AVS Runtime Creation Kit including:  support for
ANSI-C and C++ modules,  direct user interface control for application
developers, a new module source code offering, and floating runtime
licenses.

  Image Processing -- AVS has been widely accepted by imaging users needing
an easily customized, extensible environment for 2D and 3D imaging. With
the inclusion of the SunVision imaging technology, AVS5 now contains over
50 modules specifically developed for image processing.  The new Image
Viewer also provides support for interactive sketching on images, image
annotation, and image mensuration.

  Volume Rendering -- The SunVision volume rendering tools have been added
to AVS along with direct 8-bit volume rendering for very large data sets
such as 3D seismic surveys.  AVS is now the industry's leading
multi-platform application for volume visualization.

  Presentation Modules -- The process of data visualization and analysis
does not end with a geometric object or image on the screen.  Through a
combination of new labeling, annotation, and output modules, AVS5 provides
the user with a combination of presentation features for printed reports,
videos, and slide presentations.

  Unstructured Cell Data (UCD)  -- Improved capabilities have been added
through new and enhanced modules.  In particular, randomly sampled data
such as ground water samples or demographic data can be converted to UCD
data.  This provides access for the environmental science and financial
analysis users of AVS to a broad range of visualization techniques.

  AVS5 will begin shipping at the end of February, 1993.   The Developers
AVS Starter Pack is priced at $25,000.  AVS Runtime licenses start at $3000
and are priced as low as $1000 for high volume developers.  End-user AVS
starts at $6500.


New Platform Support

  In keeping pace with the rapid changes in hardware technology, Advanced
Visual Systems is committed to supporting the latest advances in computing
platforms.  New versions of AVS are now available on Cray, Digital Alpha
AXP and VAX, and Data General AViiON systems.   

  AVS is now available on more than 20 workstation and supercomputer
platforms -- including systems from Convex, Cray, Data General, Digital
Equipment Corp., Hewlett Packard, IBM, Silicon Graphics, Sun, and Thinking
Machines -- that accounted for more than 90% of 1992 workstation sales and
67% of high-performance computing system shipments.  

  First introduced in 1989, AVS software has emerged as the industry
standard, platform-independent visualization application software and
development environment, with thousands of users worldwide.   Easily
tailored and applicable to a wide range of applications, AVS software is
designed to accept data and create a visual display of this information
using a variety of advanced visualization techniques.  

  AVS software allows users to construct applications incorporating their
own software code, without complex graphics programming.  Easy to learn,
AVS software provides a visual programming interface and powerful tools
that allow applications to be designed and customized quickly.  AVS
provides more techniques for visualizing information than any other system
commercially available, offering more than 230 visualization "modules." 

  Advanced Visual Systems Inc., headquartered in Waltham, Mass. is a
leader in the development and delivery of visualization software products
for scientific, engineering and business professionals, and software
developers. 

                        #    #    #    # 


AVS is a trademark of Advanced Visual Systems Inc.
SunVision is a trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc.

For further editorial information contact:

Ian Reid					
Advanced Visual Systems Inc. 		
(617) 890-4300				

Tony Sapienza
Miller Communications
(617) 536-0470


From whitaker@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: ucd_cell_to_node problem
Message-ID: <1993Feb17.160117.64335@qut.edu.au>
Date: 17 Feb 93 16:01:16 EST
Organization: Queensland University of Technology
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Has anybody else had problems with ucd_cell_to_node?
I tried to convert a data set with 733 nodes and 696 cells,
and it kept aborting. A smaller set of the same data worked.
I can't get the package (Nastran) to output node data for
this solution sequence, but would love to use avs on the 
cell data.

Beth Whitaker.


From ndr@ktibv.uucp (Nick de Ruyter)
Subject: Postcript -> Paintjet XL300 converter
Message-ID: <1993Feb17.104118.19882@ktibv.uucp>
Keywords: postscript, paintjet, converter
Organization: KTI BV
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 10:41:18 GMT
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Hi there,

We are at the moment evaluating AVS, and everything we want it do works,
except for printing. AVS seems to be able to generate postscript output only,
which is fine when you have a postscript color-printer.
Because we do not have such a device, but "just" a Paintjet XL300, we wondered
if someone out there knows some (public domain ?) software package which is
able to convert postscript to any format the Paintjet will understand (HPGL2,
PCL5). We have info here about the product EasyCopy/X, which costs about
$ 2000. A postscript-cartridge for the Paintjet is even more expensive, so we
are looking for a cheap solution (if possible).

Thanx in advance for your reply !


Nick.


Nick de Ruyter
Kinetics Technology International B.V.
Bredewater 26
2715 CA  Zoetermeer
P.O. Box 86
2700 AB  Zoetermeer
tel  : +31 79 531 614
fax  : +31 79 513 561
email: ..sun4nl!ktibv!ndr


From Kim Stephenson <kims@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Objects & Lights
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 16:02:39 GMT
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Hi....

I'm working on a module which will take an AVS GeomViewer scene and
create a .RIB file which is the input for Pixars Renderman.   To do this
I need a few pieces of information that don't seem to be available via
the published cli or GEOM calls.  Therefore I am looking for a way to get
to the OBJ structures (from obj.h) directly.  Currently I need the
texture files, parenting information and the location of the lights. 
There may be more down the road.  Has anyone worked with or know how to
get to the object structures themselves?

Thanks
Kim Stephenson
NCSA
Software Development Group


From cohen@quartz.ciw.edu (Ronald Cohen)
Subject: Nice globe geometry or texture map?
Sender: usenet@granite.ciw.edu
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I am looking for a good looking globe, preferably geological or a
view from space for working into a complex scene.  What would be
best is a geometry or even a texture map onto a sphere.  The
polyline one at avs.ncsc.org is not satisfactory for my purposes.
If anyone has one I will give you full attribution.  Thanks.
-- 
Ronald Cohen
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington
5251 Broad Branch Rd., N.W.,  Washington, D.C. 20015


From thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (Steve Thorpe)
Subject: AVS 5 announcement
Message-ID: <C2Mxzs.v9@doppler.ncsc.org>
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 08:23:51 GMT

Hi Folks,

Please accept my apologies if this posting is a repeat for you -
I thought I'd posted it yesterday, but for some reason this didn't
show up in my usual news feed.

FYI - we recently received this AVS 5 announcement from AVS Inc.

BTW, only 3 months and 8 days until AVS '93!  Get your 
registrations in during the next 2 weeks for an early 
bird discount of $75....

See you in Florida!

-Steve

PS  Would you be interested in sharing your AVS work with the
scientific visualization community worldwide via a short article 
and / or slides in an upcoming issue of AVS Network News?  This 
is the IAC's quarterly magazine made up of user contributed 
articles.  Also, we are soliciting short AVS animations on video
tape for the video theater at AVS '93, and posters for the poster
session.  Thanks for considering this!
----------------------------------------------------------------
   Steve Thorpe, Application Visualization System Specialist
International AVS Center, North Carolina Supercomputing Center
PO Box 12889   3021 Cornwallis Rd, RTP, NC 27709   avs@ncsc.org
----------------------------------------------------------------

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Advanced Visual Systems Introduces 
New Visualization Software For Application Developers

Adds New Features From SunVision For Imaging and Volume Rendering

Waltham, Mass., February 16, 1993 -- Advanced Visual Systems Inc. today
announced a powerful new version of its popular AVSTM visualization
software that includes a host of enhanced features to help application
developers, scientists, engineers, and other business professionals develop
graphics-based applications and perform data visualization and analysis.  

  The fifth release of the Application Visualization System (AVS) expands
the spectrum of tools used to develop visual computing applications that
process and display complex data and images.  AVS5 also incorporates
significant new imaging and volume rendering features from the SunVision
technology that Advanced Visual Systems acquired from Sun Microsystems.

  AVS is the leading visual computing software platform, combining
advanced data analysis and visualization capabilities to help scientists,
engineers, and analysts gain insight from the large volumes of data
generated by medical imaging systems, satellite-based sensors,
computational simulations, and many other sources. 

  AVS is increasingly used as a development environment to build
applications in areas such as medical imaging, engineering analysis,
financial modeling, environmental studies, and oil and gas exploration and
production.   Application developers can build and deploy AVS-based
vertical applications containing the AVS runtime environment.

  "Together with the advent of low-cost, high-performance graphics
workstations, AVS is helping visual computing migrate out of the research
lab and into mainstream business and industrial operations," said Ian Reid,
vice president of marketing for Advanced Visual Systems.  

  "AVS provides a platform-independent framework supplying the 3D
graphics, advanced visualization techniques, user interface, and
distributed computing functions needed by today's visual applications.  A
development team can focus its efforts on user-visible vertical application
functionality instead of system environment issues," Reid added.  "The
benefits are better applications in the hands of end-users -- much faster
and with less development resources."


AVS5

  AVS5 provides a set of new features that are the direct result of AVS
customer feedback.  In addition, the acquisition of the SunVision product
from Sun Microsystems has provided significant new functionality in areas
of imaging and volume rendering to AVS.  

The new features found in AVS5 include:
	
  Enhanced Application Development and Delivery Tools --  A new release of
Developers AVS and the AVS Runtime Creation Kit including:  support for
ANSI-C and C++ modules,  direct user interface control for application
developers, a new module source code offering, and floating runtime
licenses.

  Image Processing -- AVS has been widely accepted by imaging users needing
an easily customized, extensible environment for 2D and 3D imaging. With
the inclusion of the SunVision imaging technology, AVS5 now contains over
50 modules specifically developed for image processing.  The new Image
Viewer also provides support for interactive sketching on images, image
annotation, and image mensuration.

  Volume Rendering -- The SunVision volume rendering tools have been added
to AVS along with direct 8-bit volume rendering for very large data sets
such as 3D seismic surveys.  AVS is now the industry's leading
multi-platform application for volume visualization.

  Presentation Modules -- The process of data visualization and analysis
does not end with a geometric object or image on the screen.  Through a
combination of new labeling, annotation, and output modules, AVS5 provides
the user with a combination of presentation features for printed reports,
videos, and slide presentations.

  Unstructured Cell Data (UCD)  -- Improved capabilities have been added
through new and enhanced modules.  In particular, randomly sampled data
such as ground water samples or demographic data can be converted to UCD
data.  This provides access for the environmental science and financial
analysis users of AVS to a broad range of visualization techniques.

  AVS5 will begin shipping at the end of February, 1993.   The Developers
AVS Starter Pack is priced at $25,000.  AVS Runtime licenses start at $3000
and are priced as low as $1000 for high volume developers.  End-user AVS
starts at $6500.


New Platform Support

  In keeping pace with the rapid changes in hardware technology, Advanced
Visual Systems is committed to supporting the latest advances in computing
platforms.  New versions of AVS are now available on Cray, Digital Alpha
AXP and VAX, and Data General AViiON systems.   

  AVS is now available on more than 20 workstation and supercomputer
platforms -- including systems from Convex, Cray, Data General, Digital
Equipment Corp., Hewlett Packard, IBM, Silicon Graphics, Sun, and Thinking
Machines -- that accounted for more than 90% of 1992 workstation sales and
67% of high-performance computing system shipments.  

  First introduced in 1989, AVS software has emerged as the industry
standard, platform-independent visualization application software and
development environment, with thousands of users worldwide.   Easily
tailored and applicable to a wide range of applications, AVS software is
designed to accept data and create a visual display of this information
using a variety of advanced visualization techniques.  

  AVS software allows users to construct applications incorporating their
own software code, without complex graphics programming.  Easy to learn,
AVS software provides a visual programming interface and powerful tools
that allow applications to be designed and customized quickly.  AVS
provides more techniques for visualizing information than any other system
commercially available, offering more than 230 visualization "modules." 

  Advanced Visual Systems Inc., headquartered in Waltham, Mass. is a
leader in the development and delivery of visualization software products
for scientific, engineering and business professionals, and software
developers. 

                        #    #    #    # 


AVS is a trademark of Advanced Visual Systems Inc.
SunVision is a trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc.

For further editorial information contact:

Ian Reid					
Advanced Visual Systems Inc. 		
(617) 890-4300				

Tony Sapienza
Miller Communications
(617) 536-0470


From slim@anduin.ocf.llnl.gov (Scott R Whitman)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: AVS on Supercomputers/Parallel Computers
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Date: 19 Feb 93 17:40:56 GMT
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I'm looking for information on ports of AVS to supercomputers or
parallel computers.  I have enough information about CM-AVS but I
don't really have any on the Cray or Convex (just rumors, I'm afraid).

A few questions:

Have any individual modules been explicitly vectorized or parallelized
for either of the above machines (or any others)?

I realize it is likely that individual modules could run in parallel
on different processors, is this done frequently?

How about performance, does one typically gain anything from using a
software renderer on the supercomputer versus transferrance of data
down to a high performance graphics workstation?

While some of these questions may not have a direct answer, I'm
primarily looking for opinions at this point.  I'm collecting
information for a paper which will overview supercomputer scientific
visualization.  Any help would be appreciated.

		Scott Whitman
--
--------------------------------------------------------
Scott R. Whitman, Ph.D.		slim@llnl.gov
LLNL, L-301, P.O. Box 808	(510) 294-4109
Livermore, CA 94550		


From gperkes@st.nepean.uws.edu.au (Graeme Perkes)
Subject: Re: PC based version of AVS???
Message-ID: <1993Feb21.231119.7603@uws.EDU.AU>
Sender: news@uws.EDU.AU
Organization: University of Western Sydney, Nepean
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Replies gave the following contact for a PC
based version of AVS (SCO UNIX environment) :

Kevin Meagher
Set Technology
6595 Odell Place, Suite G
Boulder, Colorado 80301
USA
Tel: (303) 530-4009
Fax: (303) 530-2808
 

========================================================================
 Graeme Perkes                        | Internet: 
 B. App. Science -                    |    gperkes@st.nepean.uws.edu.au  
    Computing (Hons) Student          |---------------------------------
 University of Western Sydney, Nepean |  Witty quote ommitted.
 NSW, Australia                       |  
========================================================================




From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - compress_file
Message-ID: <C2ty72.3A3@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 03:11:26 GMT

Name        : compress_file   Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1588 
Author      : Lee J. Silverman, Brown University
Submitted   : 02/21/93        Last Updated : 02/21/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : DEC Convex HP IBM
Description : The compress/uncompress module pair is designed to allow
              datasets or images or other files to be stored and kept in
              compressed format, but still be read into an AVS network.
-- 
International AVS Center
North Carolina Supercomputing Center
avs@ncsc.org


From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - uncompress_file
Message-ID: <C2tyFK.3q1@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 03:16:26 GMT

Name        : uncompress_file Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1589 
Author      : Lee J. Silverman, Brown University
Submitted   : 02/21/93        Last Updated : 02/21/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : DEC Convex IBM
Description : The compress/uncompress module pair is designed to allow
              datasets or images or other files to be stored and kept in
              compressed format, but still be read into an AVS network.
              There must be enough space for this module to uncompress at
              least one file at a time, or it will bomb out. Generally
              speaking, a filename will be passed to the uncompress
              module, either through the browser or via input parameter
              string. The uncompress module will decompress the file,
              then pass the filename on to a data-input module such as Read
              Field.
-- 
International AVS Center
North Carolina Supercomputing Center
avs@ncsc.org


From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - Read_SDRC
Message-ID: <C2tzCt.4M1@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 03:36:28 GMT

Name        : Read_SDRC       Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1590 
Author      : Steve Larkin, Ian Curington, & Geoff Cook, University of
              Manchester and AVS Inc
Submitted   : 02/21/93        Last Updated : 02/21/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : DEC Kubota Convex HP IBM
Description : Read SDRC reads a file which is in the SDRC I-DEAS universal
              format converts it into an AVS UCD format. At present only
              two types of node data record are implemented, static and
              transient. A static record has one set of values at each
              node. A transient record has a set of values at each node for
              different times. Please see the International AVS
              Center's sample dataset subdirectory for two datafiles
              you might want to try with this module - crankshaft.unv and
              trans-therm.unv. PARAMETERS
-- 
International AVS Center
North Carolina Supercomputing Center
avs@ncsc.org


From jlee@cs.ulowell.edu (John Peter Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super,comp.soft-sys.khoros,comp.sys.sgi,comp.graphics.avs,comp.graphics.explorer,comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Visualization '93 - Call for Participation III
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	***************   Call For Participation   *****************


			    Visualization '93


			   October 25-29, 1993
			     Red Lion Hotel
			  San Jose, California


			      Sponsored by: 

	IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics
		    In Cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH




   Scientific visualization is an important research frontier shared by a
variety of computational science and engineering fields. Visualization work
is both interdisciplinary and a field in its own right.  This conference 
focuses on interdisciplinary methods and supports collaboration among the 
developers and users of visualization methods across all of science, 
engineering, and commerce.
				  ******



		  Paper Submissions (due March 31, 1993)

	Papers are solicited that present research results related to all 
	areas of visualization, including visualization tools and 
	methods, and discipline-specific applications. Original papers 
	should be limited to 5,000 words and may be accompanied by 
	NTSC video. Please submit 5 copies of all materials. For Paper 
	submission instructions, contact Papers Co-Chair:

			     Gregory M. Nielson	
			  Arizona State University
		         Rural Rd and University Ave
			    Tempe, AZ 85287-5406
		         nielson@enuxva.eas.asu.edu
			       602-965-2785    


				  ******



		     Panel Proposals (due March 31, 1993)

	Panels should address the most important issues in 
	visualization today, with emphasis on research, applications, 
	systems and results.  Panelists should be experts in their
	field who discuss the challenges of visualization.  Summaries
	of panelists' position statements will appear in the 
	proceedings.  For Panel proposal instructions, contact Panels 
	Co-Chair:

			       Lloyd Treinish 
		       IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
		          P.O. Box 704, Room SK-Y68
		         Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
			    lloyd@watson.ibm.com
			       914-784-5038


				  ******



		   Interdisciplinary Case Studies Proposals
			   (due March 31, 1993)

	Case studies is a forum for scientists from various disci-
	plines to discuss applications, experience, and challenges 
	of visualization, and to present potential topics of future 
	research. These sessions provide an interdisciplinary meeting 
	point between scientists from different areas. We encourage the
	discussion between visualization experts of the roles, benefits,
	and limitation of visualization in particular areas such as 
	astrophysics, atmospheric sciencies, computational fluid 
	dynamics, engineering, geology, medicine, anthropology, 
	chemistry, etc. For Case Study proposal instructions, we 
	encourage electronic submission; please contact Case Studies
	Co-Chair:

			       Deborah Silver	
			     Rutgers University
			       P.O. Box 1390
			  Piscataway NJ 08855-1390
			  silver@caip.rutgers.edu
			        908-932-5546


				  ******


 	 
		 Workshop Proposals (due March 31, 1993)

	Half-day, one or two day workshops on specific visualization 
	methods or application areas will be offered Monday and 
	Tuesday. They  should deal with state-of-the-art topics and 
	involve experts in the field. Discipline-focused workshop 
	proposals devoted to a particular discipline's methods and needs 
	are encouraged (e.g.molecular graphics). If appropriate, a 
	workshop may be co-sponsored by another professional 
	organization. For Workshop proposal instructions, contact 
	Workshop Co-Chair:

			       Chuck Hansen	
		     Los Alamos National Laboratory
				 MS-B287
			      P.O. Box 1663
		           Los Alamos, NM 87545
			     hansen@lanl.gov
			      505-665-3663


				  ******



		   Tutorial Proposals (due March 31, 1993)

	Half-day and full-day course proposals are welcome for systems, 
	methods, and application areas. Tutorials will be  offered 
	Monday and Tuesday, preceeding the Wednesday through Friday 
	conference. Proposals should target visualization at a 
	beginning, intermediate, or advanced level. For Tutorial 
	proposal instructions, contact Tutorials Co-Chair:

			        Roni Yagel
			 The Ohio State University
		 Dept. of Computer and Information Science
			      2036 Neil Avenue
			  Columbus, OH 43120-1277
		         yagel@cis.ohio-state.edu
			       614-292-0060	



				  ******



		Demonstration Proposals (due May 30, 1993)

	Research groups from academia or industry, as well as vendors, 
	are invited to demonstrate their work interactively. Proposals 
	should summarize the work to be presented and identify the 
	hardware/software platform required. Demonstrations will be 
	held on Wednesday and  Thursday during the conference.  For 
	Demonstration proposal instructions, contact Demonstrations
	Co-Chair:

			       Bill Ribarsky	
		     Office of Information Technology
		      Georgia Institute of Technology
		          Atlanta, GA 30332-0710
		         bill.ribarsky@gatech.edu
			       404-894-6148



				  ******



	             2-Day Symposium on Virtual Reality
		            (due March 31, 1993)

	A 2-day Symposium on Virtual Reality applications for 
	visualization will be held Monday and Tuesday of the conference 
	week. The symposium will offer refereed papers, a panel 
	discussion, posters and extra time for discussion.  Papers and 
	posters are solicited  in Virtual Reality and visualization, 
	augmented reality, human factors, interaction techniques, and 
	application areas. For Virtual Reality Symposium submission 
	instructions, contact VR Symposium Co-Chairs:

				Steve Bryson
			 NASA-Ames Research Center
			  Moffett Field, CA 94035
			    bryson@nas.nasa.gov
			        415-604-4524



				  ******


	           2-Day Symposium on Parallel Rendering
			   (due March 31, 1993)

	A 2-day Symposium on parallel rendering techniques 
	will be held Monday and Tuesday. The symposium will offer 
	refereed papers as well as informal discussions. Papers are 
	solicited on all aspects of parallel rendering, including: 
	polygon scan conversion, ray tracing, radiosity, volume 
	rendering, constructive solid geometry, surface generation, 
	scientific visualization, massively parallel computation, 
	performance analysis, I/O and display issues, and architectural 
	impact on algorithms. Papers are not limited to a visualization 
	context. For Parallel Rendering Symposium submission 
	instructions, contact PR Symposium Co-Chair:

				Tom Crockett	
			NASA Langley Research Center
				 M.S. 132C
			  Hampton, VA 23681-0001
				tom@icase.edu
			        804-864-2182


				  ******



                        VIS '93 Conference Committee

Conference Co-Chairs:
	Carol Hunter, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
	Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
	Nahum Gershon, The MITRE Corporation
	Arie Kaufman, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Papers Co-Chairs:
	Dan Bergeron, University of New Hampshire
	Greg Nielson, Arizona State University
Panels Co-Chairs:
	Lloyd Treinish, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
	Jeff Beddow, Hennepin County, Minnesota
Case Studies Co-Chairs:
	Deborah Silver, Rutgers University
	Frits Post, University of Delft, The Netherlands
Tutorials Co-Chairs:
	Roni Yagel, Ohio State University
	Haim Levkowitz, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Workshop Co-Chairs:
	Mike Rhodes, Toshiba America Corporation
	Chuck Hansen, Los Alamos National Lab
Demonstrations Co-Chairs:
	Bill Ribarsky, Georgia Institute of Technology
	Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Martin Marietta/EPA
VR Symposium Co-Chairs:
	Steve Bryson, NASA-Ames Research Center
	Steven Feiner, Columbia University
Parallel Rendering Symposium Co-Chairs:
	Chuck Hansen, Los Alamos National Laboratory
	Scott Whitman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
	Tom Crockett, NASA Langley Research Center
Videos Co-Chairs:
	Ed Council, Timberfield Systems
	Robert McDermott, University of Utah
Publicity Co-Chairs:
	Kay Howell, Naval Research Laboratory
	Carol Hunter, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
	J.P. Lee, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:
	Stephen Watson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Finance Co-Chairs:
	Bruce Brown, Oracle Corporation
	Michael Danchak, Hartford Graduate Center
Registration Co-Chairs:
	Ross Gaunt, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
	Shirley Stephan, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
International Liason:
	Larry Rosenblum, Office of Naval Research, European Office
	Phil Robertson, CSIRO Information Division, Australia
Student Volunteers Co-Chairs:
	J.P.Lee, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
	Stephen Watson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory


From pdsmart@infonode.ingr.com (Parker Smart)
Subject: Info. please...
Message-ID: <1993Feb22.221619.23024@infonode.ingr.com>
Keywords: training cost
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 22:16:19 GMT
Lines: 16

I would like some info on the following:

                1) is training available
                2) is it on/off site
                3) how many days
                4) what is the cost.

        Thanks

Email or post is fine.

   .---.               .         .           .                   .
  ' . . `  #        .       .        .          Parker D. Smart    205-730-3769
 |_____O_|   #            .   *                 pdsmart@smart.b30.Ingr.COM
 |.  ..  |  #                      .               .                        .
  `.___.'       The Death Star.  Coming soon to a galaxy near you...    (c) 1993


From rsignell@crusty.whoi.edu (Richard P. Signell)
Subject: Time dependent particle advection
Message-ID: <1993Feb23.023800.23161@netnews.whoi.edu>
Summary: Is there a time-dependent particle advector?
Keywords: particle,advection
Sender: news@netnews.whoi.edu
Organization: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 02:38:00 GMT
Lines: 11

We would like to track particles in a 3D time dependent flow field in
AVS.  Do I remember someone saying that they had a time-dependent
particle advector module?  Probably not, I suppose, or it would be at
the IAC.  But since this is a slow AVS news day.....

Thanks,
--
Rich Signell               |  rsignell@crusty.er.usgs.gov
U.S. Geological Survey     |  (508) 457-2229  |  FAX (508) 457-2310
Quissett Campus            |  " When marriage is outlawed, 
Woods Hole, MA  02543      |    only outlaws will have inlaws. "


From rthomas@usc.edu (Reem Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.graphics.avs,comp.graphics.visualization,sci.image.processing
Subject: Info on 3D Correlation functions..
Date: 22 Feb 1993 21:50:36 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Hi,

I would like some info on 3-Dimensional Correlation functions. Has 
anybody come across any material on this topic in reference to image 
registration.

ciao

Reem Thomas			    |	Internet:rthomas@scf.usc.edu
Dept. of Biomedical Engg	    |	
University of Southern Calif.	    |	Bitnet: THOMASR@CSMCMVAX.BITNET
				    |	
Image Visualization Laboratory	    |			    	
Cedars Sinai Medical Center         |



From miller@ece.ucdavis.edu (Mark Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: AVS on HP
Message-ID: <22903@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 93 01:52:10 GMT
Sender: usenet@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lines: 25
Originator: miller@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu



To anyone running AVS on an HP:

   We are running AVS on an HP-750 with a TurboVRX graphics accelerator and 32
   bit display.  We have had many problems with this configuration and AVS.
   We have experienced...

      ...complete lockup of the current HP-VUE session
      ...incorrect refresh of text and icons in other windows on the display
      ...X server crashes

   These all occur while AVS is running.  I have heard from various people at 
   AVS and other places that we should run HP-PHIGS 2.11 and NOT 2.2.  Has 
   anyone run into problems with running AVS...

      ...under HP-PHIGS 2.2?  
      ...under 24 bit windows on HP-700 series?

   If you have, could you please give me some tips on how to fix this or who
   to talk to (HP or AVS) to fix get help to fix it. Please respond to:

      Mark Miller (miller@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu)

Thank you.


From stam@dgp.toronto.edu (Jos Stam)
Subject: Re: Info on 3D Correlation functions..
Message-ID: <1993Feb23.151745.18133@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
References: <1mcdvcINNq10@aludra.usc.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 93 20:17:45 GMT
Lines: 41

rthomas@usc.edu (Reem Thomas) writes:

>Hi,

>I would like some info on 3-Dimensional Correlation functions. Has 
>anybody come across any material on this topic in reference to image 
>registration.

>ciao

WHat kind of information do you want? In the most general case the covariance
of a random function (field) is defined as:

C(x_1,y_1,z_1,x_2,y_2,z_2) = < R(x_1,y_1,z_1)R(x_2,y_2,z_2) > -
                             < R(x_1,y_1,z_1) > < R(x_2,y_2,z_2) >

Where < > denotes ensemble (statistical) averaging. Usually it is assumed
that the random field is homogeneous and that the covariance only depends
on the difference between two points (note that then also <R(x)> = const):

C(h) = < R(x)R(x+h) > - < R(x) >^2

You have now a function with a three-dimensional domain. You can estimate 
such a function from experimental data, however this can be tricky. A further
simplification usually adopted is that of isotropy, i.e., the covariance only
depends on the *distance* between two points:

C(d) = C(||h||),

hence your covariance is now one dimensional.

For more specific info e-mail me

>Reem Thomas			    |	Internet:rthomas@scf.usc.edu
>Dept. of Biomedical Engg	    |	
>University of Southern Calif.	    |	Bitnet: THOMASR@CSMCMVAX.BITNET
>				    |	
>Image Visualization Laboratory	    |			    	
>Cedars Sinai Medical Center         |

Jos Stam (stam@dgp.toronto.edu)


From avs@ncsc.org (International AVS Center)
Subject: New module at IAC - Unjaggy
Message-ID: <C2xGAI.L9q@doppler.ncsc.org>
Sender: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 00:35:05 GMT

Name        : Unjaggy         Version      : 1.000     Mod Number : 1591 
Author      : Steve Thorpe, International AVS Center
Submitted   : 02/23/93        Last Updated : 02/23/93  Language   : C        
Ported to   : DEC Kubota Convex HP IBM
Description : This filter module slightly blurs a color image in order to
              reduce aliasing effects, which are also affectionately
              known as "the jaggies". It uses a 3x3 Bartlett window to
              filter an image. For each (non-edge) red, green, blue and
              alpha component of a pixel in the input image, the resulting
              component in the corresponding pixel in the output image is
              based on a weighted average.
-- 
International AVS Center
North Carolina Supercomputing Center
avs@ncsc.org


From fuerst@fmgeods01.tu-graz.ac.at ("Fuerst Werner")
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: Re: Postcript -> Paintjet XL300 converter
Date: 24 Feb 1993 07:55:54 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria
Lines: 135
Message-ID: <1mf9maINNnpn@fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at>
References: <1993Feb17.104118.19882@ktibv.uucp>
NNTP-Posting-Host: fmgeods01.tu-graz.ac.at
Keywords: postscript, paintjet, converter

In article <1993Feb17.104118.19882@ktibv.uucp> ndr@ktibv.uucp (Nick de Ruyter) writes:
>Hi there,
>
>We are at the moment evaluating AVS, and everything we want it do works,
>except for printing. AVS seems to be able to generate postscript output only,
>which is fine when you have a postscript color-printer.
> [...]

Try Ghostscript, available on many servers by anonymous ftp, I got it
from ftp.tu-graz.ac.at .

>From the README - file:

********
******** An overview of Ghostscript ********
********

Ghostscript is the name of a set of software that provides:

	- An interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language, and

	- A set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that
implement the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive
operations in the PostScript language.

The Ghostscript language interpreter and library are written entirely
in C, with some assembly-language accelerators for MS-DOS platforms.
Currently, Ghostscript is known to run on the following platform
families:

	- IBM PC and compatibles with EGA, VGA, SuperVGA, or compatible
	  graphics under MS-DOS 3.1, 3.3, or 5.0, with or without
	  Microsoft Windows 3.0 or 3.1;

	- A wide variety of Unix systems using X Windows version 11,
	  release 3, 4, and 5, including Sun-3, Sun-4, Sun-386i,
	  Sun SPARCStation 1 and 2; generic 80386 machines running 386/ix,
	  ISC Unix, and SCO Unix; H-P 9000/300 and 9000/800;
	  DECStation 2100 and 3100; VAX running Ultrix; Sequent Symmetry;
	  Convex C1 and C2; Tektronix 4300; SGI Iris Indigo;

	- Sun workstations (Sun-3, SPARC, Sun-386i) running SunView;

	- VAX, VMS with X11R3/4/5, gcc and DEC C compiler (DEC C compiler
	  version 3.1 or later is required).

*********
*********
>From the devs.mak - file:
# -------------------------------- Catalog ------------------------------- #

# It is possible to build Ghostscript with an arbitrary collection of
# device drivers, although some drivers are supported only on a subset
# of the target platforms.  The currently available drivers are:

# Displays:
#   MS-DOS EGA and VGA:
#	ega	EGA (640x350, 16-color)
#	vga	VGA (640x480, 16-color)
#   MS-DOS SuperVGA:
# +	atiw	ATI Wonder SuperVGA, 256-color modes
# *	mdb10	EIZO MDB-10 (1024 x 768)
#	s3vga	SuperVGA with S3 86C911 chip (e.g., Diamond Stealth board)
#	tseng	SuperVGA using Tseng Labs ET3000/4000 chips, 256-color modes
#	tseng16  Tseng Labs SuperVGA in 800x600, 16-color mode (256K memory)
# +	tvga	Trident SuperVGA, 256-color modes
# +	tvga16	Trident SuperVGA in 800x600, 16-color mode (256K memory)
#   ****** NOTE: The vesa device does not work with the Watcom (32-bit MS-DOS)
#   ****** compiler or executable.
#	vesa	SuperVGA with VESA standard API driver
#   MS-DOS other:
#	bgi	Borland Graphics Interface (CGA and Hercules)
#	mswin	Microsoft Windows 3.0, 3.1
# *	pe	Private Eye
#   Unix and VMS:
# *	att3b1	AT&T 3b1/Unixpc monochrome display   [3b1 only]
# *	sonyfb	Sony Microsystems monochrome display   [Sony only]
# *	sunview  SunView window system   [SunOS only]
#	x11	X Windows version 11, release >=3   [Unix and VMS only]
# Printers:
#	bj10e	Canon BubbleJet BJ10e
# *	cdeskjet  H-P DeskJet 500C with 1 bit/pixel color
# *	cdjcolor  H-P DeskJet 500C with 24 bit/pixel color and
#		high-quality color (Floyd-Steinberg) dithering
# *	cdjmono  H-P DeskJet 500C printing black only
# +	deskjet  H-P DeskJet and DeskJet Plus
# *	dfaxhigh  DigiBoard, Inc.'s DigiFAX software format (high resolution)
# *	dfaxlow  DigiFAX low (normal) resolution
#	djet500  H-P DeskJet 500
# *	djet500c  H-P DeskJet 500C
#	epson	Epson-compatible dot matrix printers (9- or 24-pin)
# +	eps9high  Epson-compatible 9-pin, interleaved lines
#		(triple resolution)
# *	epsonc	Epson LQ-2550 and Fujitsu 3400/2400/1200 color printers
# +	laserjet  H-P LaserJet
# *	la50	DEC LA50 printer
# *	la75	DEC LA75 printer
# *	lbp8	Canon LBP-8II laser printer
# *	ln03	DEC LN03 printer
# *	lj250	DEC LJ250 Companion color printer
# +	ljet2p	H-P LaserJet IId/IIp/III* with TIFF compression
# +	ljet3	H-P LaserJet III* with Delta Row compression
# +	ljetplus  H-P LaserJet Plus
# *	necp6	NEC P6/P6+/P60 printers at 360 x 360 DPI resolution
# *	nwp533  Sony Microsystems NWP533 laser printer   [Sony only]
#	paintjet  H-P PaintJet color printer
# *	pjetxl	H-P PaintJet XL color printer
# *	r4081	Ricoh 4081 laser printer
# *	tek4696  Tektronix 4695/4696 inkjet plotter
# *	trufax	TruFax facsimile driver  [Unix only]
# File formats and others:
#	bit	A plain "bit bucket" device
#	gifmono	Monochrome GIF file format
#	gif8	8-bit color GIF file format
#	pcxmono	Monochrome PCX file format
#	pcx16	Older color PCX file format (EGA/VGA, 16-color)
#	pcx256	Newer color PCX file format (256-color)
#	pbm	Portable Bitmap (plain format)
#	pbmraw	Portable Bitmap (raw format)
#	pgm	Portable Graymap (plain format)
#	pgmraw	Portable Graymap (raw format)
#	ppm	Portable Pixmap (plain format)
#	ppmraw	Portable Pixmap (raw format)

*********
*********

Best regards

Werner.
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Werner Fuerst / MGGI / TU-Graz 
  Department of Mathematical Geodesy         Tel.: +43 (0)316 873 6359      
  and Geoinformatics                         Fax.: +43 (0)316 813247        


From avs@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Subject: AVS '93 reminder
Message-ID: <C2znv2.Cvx@doppler.ncsc.org>
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 05:13:50 GMT

Hi Folks,

Just a reminder on AVS '93 registrations, from the
advance program which is included below:

Early registrations postmarked on or before March 1, 1993, 
receive a $75 discount. 

Hope to see you there - less than 3 months until FL! ;)
 
-Steve

PS  Would you be interested in sharing your AVS work with the
scientific visualization community worldwide via a short article 
and / or slides in an upcoming issue of AVS Network News?  This 
is the IAC's quarterly magazine made up of user contributed 
articles.  Also, we are soliciting short AVS animations on video
tape for the video theater at AVS '93, and posters for the poster
session.  Thanks for considering this!
----------------------------------------------------------------
   Steve Thorpe, Application Visualization System Specialist
International AVS Center, North Carolina Supercomputing Center
PO Box 12889   3021 Cornwallis Rd, RTP, NC 27709   avs@ncsc.org
----------------------------------------------------------------


****************************************************************
			Visualization.  
			   Imaging.  
	              Computer Graphics.
****************************************************************


		INTERESTED IN SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION??

The following information is the complete preliminary advance
registration for the "2nd Annual International AVS User Group Conference"
which is being held May 24-26, 1993 at the WALT DISNEY WORLD
Dolphin Hotel at Lake Buena Vista, Florida.  It includes over 100 lectures,
tutorials, workshops and panels in Scientific Visualization using the
AVS (Application Visualization System) environment.  Users from around
the world will present their work in six different tracks:

Biomedical/Medical
Chemistry/Molecular Modeling
Geographical Information Systems (GIS)/ and Remote Sensing
Earth Sciences
General Tracks A and B that include;
	Distributed computing
	Parallelization
	Holographic display
	Sonification
	CFD and FE
	AVS in manufacturing
	and many other topics 

In addition, there will be a video theater of AVS users work.

The Exhibition floor will be technology oriented and provide
examples of hardware and software using AVS.  Make sure to see
VISION DOME, a Virtual Reality environment that is the central 
demonstration of our "Emerging Technologies" exhibit.

This information is also available in hardcopy and in
electronic format on the International AVS Center's public domain
ftp site.  To get an online copy, ftp to 128.109.178.23 and
login as anonymous, give your email address as the password and
cd to the avs93 directory.  For ASCII format, type ascii and then
type get AVS93_prog.txt.  We hope to have PostScript format available
soon.  To get hardcopy, send email to avs93@ncsc.org or write to:

	International AVS Center
	3021 Cornwallis Road
	Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
	Phone (919) 248 1182
	FAX   (919) 248 1101

************************************************************************
**A detailed listing of the titles to be presented is included below.**
			COMPLETE PROGRAM FOLLOWS
************************************************************************

AVS '93, the 2nd Annual International AVS User Group 
Conference and Exhibition, is presented by the 
International AVS Center and the North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center (NCSC), a division of MCNC, in 
cooperation with the AVS Consortium.  The AVS Consortium 
consists of Advanced Visual Systems Inc., CONVEX Computer 
Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-
Packard Company, IBM, Kubota Pacific Company Inc., and 
SUN Microsystems Inc.

AVS '93 provides a one-of-a-kind, international forum 
for AVS users and developers to share information and 
exchange ideas for the advancement of AVS.  The conference 
features technology-oriented exhibitions, tutorials, 
workshops, lectures, panels, and video screenings.  
Conference topics include computational chemistry, 
computational fluid dynamics, earth sciences, education 
and research, geographic information systems and remote 
sensing, image analysis, medical imaging, molecular 
modeling, oil and gas exploration, scientific visualization, 
structural analysis, and more.

Proceedings

MCNC publishes the proceedings volume for distribution to 
AVS '93 registrants at the conference.  Extra copies can be 
purchased for $50 after the conference.

Program Committee

Program Chair 
DAVID BENNETT,
International AVS Center/North Carolina Supercomputing 
Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Co-Chairs  
KATHERINE MOHRFELD,
International AVS Center /North Carolina Supercomputing 
Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

STEVE THORPE, 
International AVS Center/North Carolina Supercomputing 
Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Medical/Biomedical Chair
MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Ann Arbor, MI

Earth Sciences Chair
THERESA RHYNE, Martin Marietta/
U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC

Geographic Information Systems Chair 
CHUCK HANSEN,
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 

General Track A Chair
TOM PALMER, Cray Research/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Chemistry and Molecular Modeling Chair
DOUGLAS SMITH, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 

General Track B Chair
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California at Irvine, 
Office of Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Sessions

Panels

Panelists offer candid and provocative discussion 
and debate on trends, controversies, and viewpoints in 
the visualization industry and address a broad range of 
AVS topics, including virtual reality, packet video, and 
education.

Lectures and Workshops

International experts from industry and academia 
present lectures and conduct hands-on workshops on 
emerging visualization techniques and AVS uses in such 
areas as medical imaging, molecular modeling, geographic 
information systems, and chemistry. 

Note:  Workshops require basic AVS user knowledge.

AVS Video Review Theatre

The AVS Video Review Theatre showcases everyday 
examples of completed works and works in progress by 
AVS users from around the world.  Questions and 
submissions should be forwarded to Steve Thorpe, 
NCSC, Post Office Box 12889, 3021 Cornwallis Road, 
Research Triangle Park, NC  27709-2889,  telephone 
919-248-1161, email avs@ncsc.org.  

Special-Focus Groups

Special-focus groups bring together people with 
mutual interests to meet, exchange ideas, and share and 
compare information on a wide variety of visualization 
topics.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide hands-on training by experts who 
offer beginning and basic courses on AVS use as well as 
how to use third-party, AVS-compatible software.  
Tutorials require basic knowledge of AVS except 
courses in the AVS Animator, the Geometry Viewer, the 
Network Editor, and the Overview of AVS 5.

Exhibition

The exhibition features technology-sharing demonstrations 
by the AVS Consortium members and other AVS product-
related vendors and users.  The exhibition is held Monday 
and Tuesday, May 24 and 25, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
and Wednesday, May 26, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 
Exhibition admission is included as part of the AVS 
93 registration fee.  Tickets to attend only the exhibition 
may be purchased for $25 at the 
AVS 93 registration booth.

For additional  information and a copy of the exhibitor 
prospectus, contact Ann Cadran, Conference Associate, 
MCNC, Post Office Box 12889, 3021 Cornwallis Road, 
Research Triangle Park, NC  27709.
Telephone:  919-248-1432
Fax:  919-248-1445 
Email: cadran@mcnc.org


********************************************************************  
         AVS '93 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: SUBJECT TO CHANGE
********************************************************************

Medical/Biomedical and Image Synthesis

Chair: MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Ann Arbor, MI

Lectures

Design and Simulation of 3-D Conformal Radiotherapy Using AVS 
(#ML9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Radiation Oncology, Ann Arbor, MI

New Methods for Visualizing the Structure of Biological Molecules 
(#ML10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
DAN PEISACH, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Visualizing Physiological Data 
(#ML3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
STEPHEN PRICE, Loma Linda University Medical Center, 
Loma Linda, CA

Interactive Data Exploration and Telecollaboration in 
Biomedicine Using AVS 
(#ML4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday) GUDRAN J. KLINKER, 
Cambridge Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment 
Corporation, Cambridge, MA

Hyperspectral Imaging Spectrometer Data Analysis Using AVS 
(#TL9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
JEFF COCHAND, TASC, Reading, MA

Visualization of Air Flow of a Rats Nasal Airway Using AVS 
and FIDAP 
(#TL10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
JULIA S. KIMBELL, Chemical Industry Institute of 
Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, NC

Building Medical Imaging Applications Using Khoros Modules 
Ported into AVS
(#TL3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday) JOHN RASURE AND TOM SAUER, 
The Khoros Group, University of New Mexico, Department 
of EECE, Albuquerque, NM

AVS and Radiotherapy Treatment Planning  
(#TL4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
E. LOREN BUHLE JR., University of Pennsylvania, School of 
Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 

Holographic Display of Medical Image Data 
(#WL9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday) MICHAEL DALTON, Voxel, 
Laguna Hills, CA

Simultaneous Usage of Homologous Points, Lines, and Planes for 
Optimal 3-D Linear Registration of Multimodality Imaging Data 
(#WL10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
GREGG LEICHTMAN, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, The Laser 
Research Center, Los Angeles, CA

3-D Image Segmentation in MR Images 
(#WL2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
LLOYD MYERS, University of Washington, School of 
Medicine, Department of Biological Structures, 
Seattle, WA

Workshop

Visualization and Analysis of Multidimensional Biomedical 
Images Using ANALYZE 
(#MW9-1, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; 
#TW9-1, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Tuesday; 
#WW9-1, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday) 
RICHARD ROBB AND DENNY HANSEN, 
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.
  
Earth Sciences

Chair: THERESA RHYNE, Martin Marietta/  
U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC

Lectures

Developing an AVS-Based Training Program for Environmental 
Researchers at the U.S. EPA
(#ML9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
THERESA RHYNE, Martin Marietta/
U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC

Basin Modeling with AVS (#ML10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
ANNETTE WALSH, Mobil Exploration and Producing 
Technical Center, Dallas, TX

Flood Plane Visualization for the Snake River Plain 
(#ML3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
L. ERIC GREENWADE, Visualization and Imaging Team, Idaho 
National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID

Circulation and Plume Tracking in the Massachusetts Bay 
(#ML4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
EVELYN WRIGHT AND RICHARD P. SIGNELL, 
U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA

UAMworld:  A User-Friendly Distributed Environment for 
Execution Analysis and Visualization of the Urban Airshed Model 
(#TL9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday) STEVE CHALL, 
North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC 

The Weather on Jupiter 
(#TL10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
TIM DOWLING, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Science, 
Cambridge, MA

Use of AVS in Meteorology 
(#TL3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
BILL BAUMAN, U.S. Air Force/ North Carolina State 
University, Raleigh, NC

A User's Perspective of AVS in an Engineering Analysis 
Environment 
(#TL4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
MIKE GLASS, Sandia National Laboratories, Computational 
Fluid Dynamics, Albuquerque, NM

Airshed Photochemical Model 
(#WL9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
CARY MCGREGOR, California Air Resources Board, 
Sacramento, CA

Atmospheric Science Using AVS 
(#WL10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
PHILIP C. CHEN, Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, CA

Visualizing the Influence of Building Projects in Environmentally 
Sensitive Areas 
(#WL2-2, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
HARALD MAYER, Joanneum Research Institute for 
Information Systems, Graz, Austria

Workshop

SurfCube 
(#MW9-2, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TW2-2, 2 - 4:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WW9-2, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday)
TIM HAYS, Landmark Graphics, Houston, TX
Note: Basic knowledge of AVS is required.
  
Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) 
and Remote Sensing

Chair: CHUCK HANSEN, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, NM 

Lectures

PAMAP-GIS in AVS 
(#ML9-3, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
PAMAP Technologies Corporation, 
Victoria, BC, Canada

Database System Management for the Sequoia Project Using 
Postgres and AVS 
(#ML10-3, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
MIKE KOCHEVAR, Digital Equipment Corporation  Sequoia 
Project, San Diego Supercomputing Center, La Jolla, CA

Natural Disaster Modeling in the Geological Sciences to 
Facilitate Public Policy Decision-Making 
(#ML3-3, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
ERIC FROST; San Diego State University, Computer 
Imaging, Visualization, and Animation Center, San Diego, CA 

Building Remote Sensing Applications Using Khoros 
Modules Ported into AVS
(#ML4-3, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
JOHN RASURE AND TOM SAUER, 
The Khoros Group, University of New Mexico, Department 
of EECE, Albuquerque, NM

GIS and Visualization 
(#TL9-3, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
WILLIAM IVEY, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Parallel Processing Support for GIS 
(#TL10-3, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
WOJTEK FURMANSKI, 
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Using AVS to Further NASA Space Science Research and 
Mission Planning 
(#TL3-3, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
DAVID MCNABB, University of Maryland, Advanced 
Visualization Laboratory, College Park, MD 

Environmental Use of a Laser Range Finder and AVS 
(#TL4-3, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
DON JONES AND ERIN THORNTEN, 
Battelle-Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, WA

Modeling with Artisan in AVS 
(#WL9-3, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
MIKE BONNAIN, SET Technology, Boulder, CO

On the Use of 3D in GIS Using AVS 
(#WL10-3, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday) 
JESSE DRIVER, Kubota Pacific, Santa Clara, CA

Workshop

GIS Visualization Using 
PAMAP in AVS 
(#MW2-2, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Monday;  #TW9-2, 9 - 11:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WW2-2, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)
PAMAP Technologies Corporation, 
Victoria, BC, Canada
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.
  
General A

Chair: TOM PALMER 
Cray Research/North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Lectures

Sonification in AVS 
(#ML9-4, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
BRIAN KAPLAN, Indiana University, Center for Innovative 
Computer Applications, Bloomington, IN

Visualization of a Simulation Catalog of Numerical 
Hydrodynamics 
(#ML10-4, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
SHAWN MEHAN, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

CLI Hints and Tips 
(#ML3-4, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
HOWARD WATKINS, Intera Information Technologies Ltd., 
Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom

Distributed Methodologies for Animation Using AVS 
(#ML4-4, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
LARRY DIAMOND, Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer 
Science, Austin, TX

Experiences in Developing AVS-Layered Applications 
(#TL9-4, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
RALPH FOLZ, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates Inc., 
Concord, MA

The Practical Use of AVS to Aid the Visualization of 3-D 
Semiconductor Device Simulation 
(#TL10-4, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
Jonathan Cox, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, DEPARTMENT OF 
COMPUTER SCIENCE, MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM

Optical Device Modeling:  Debugging and Visualizing with AVS 
(#TL3-4, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
PASCAL LANDI, Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Summit, NJ

Visualization on Massively Parallel Computers Using AVS 
(#TL4-4, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
CHUCK HANSEN, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Advanced 
Computing Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM	

AVS Functional Visualization:  Extracting Algebraic Expressions 
from Distributed Numbers 
(#WL9-4, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
RON KRIZ, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
University, Blacksburg, VA

Interactive Simulations of Focus Wave Modes Using AVS 
(#WL10-4,10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
JOHN SHALF, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
University, Blacksburg, VA

Finite Element Data Visualization Using UCD 
(#WL2-4, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
LARRY SCHOOF, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

Scientific Animation Tips-n-Tricks 
(#WL3-4, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
CHRIS LANDRETH, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Workshop

Importing Your Data into and Visualization Techniques for 
AVS Data Formats 
(#MW9-3, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday topic uses UCD data; #TW2-3,  
2 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday topic uses field data; #WW9-3,  9 
- 11:45 a.m. Wednesday topic uses chemistry data
MARY STEPHENSON AND JON VAGI, 
North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC
Note: This workshop is designed for intermediate users and is 
not suitable for beginners.
  
Chemistry and
Molecular Modeling

Chair: DOUGLAS SMITH, 
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH  

Lectures

Quantum Chemistry Using the AVS Chemistry Viewer 
(#ML9-5, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
DOUGLAS SMITH, University of Toledo, Department of 
Chemistry, Toledo, OH

Using AVS as an Internal Design Tool:  Prototyping Code for 
Future Versions of SPARTAN
(#ML10-5, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
JOE LEONARD, Wavefunction Inc., Irvine, CA

Visualizing Molecular Orbital Generated Dynamic Reaction 
Processes with AVS 
(#ML3-5, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
GEORGE FAMINI, ERDEC, Aberdeen Proving Ground, 
Aberdeen, MD

AVS and CFD in the Chemical Process Industries 
(#ML4-5, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
MICHAEL RANGITSCH, Dow Chemical USA, Plaquemine, LA

Precision Engineering Visualization with AVS
(#TL9-5, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
KEN FLURCHICK, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

SAVS:  An Integrated Approach to Data Acquisition, 
Manipulation, and Visualization 
(#TL10-5, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
Edward P. Szuszczewicz, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS 
INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, MCLEAN, VA

AVS in Crystallography and Molecular Biology 
(#TL3-5, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
LYNN TEN EYCK, University of California at San Diego, 
Department of Chemistry, La Jolla, CA

AVS for Molecular Modeling 
(#TL4-5, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
MIKE PIQUE AND BRUCE DUNCAN, 
The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Molecular 
Biology, La Jolla, CA

AVS and the Naval Research Laboratory 
(#WL9-5, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
ROBERT ROSENBERG, Naval Research Laboratory, 
Washington, DC

Resin Transfer Mold Process Simulation Using AVS 
(#WL10-5, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
DOUG MACRAE, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
University, Blacksburg, VA

Workshops

Introduction to the Chemistry Viewer 
(#MW9-4, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TW9-4, 9 - 11:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WW9-4, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday)
UPUL OBEYSEKARE, Science and Visualization Laboratory, 
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, and MARK 
BENZEL, 
Molecular Simulations Inc.,  Sunnyvale, CA
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.

Advanced Features of the Chemistry Viewer 
(#MW2-4, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; #TW2-4, 2 - 4:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WW2-4, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)
UPUL OBEYSEKARE, Science and Visualization Laboratory, 
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, and MARK 
BENZEL, Molecular Simulations Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.
  
General B

Chair: STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California 
at Irvine, Office of Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Lectures

IDL: The Interactive Data Language for AVS 
(#ML9-6, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
DAVID STERN, Research Systems Inc., Boulder, CO

Approaches to Interapplication Communications for AVS 
(#ML10-6, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
DAVE MCNABB, University of Maryland, Advanced 
Visualization Laboratory, College Park, MD

Visual Correlation of Lightning Strikes and BT Alarms 
(#ML3-6, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
GRAHAM WALKER, BT Laboratories, Visualization Systems 
Research, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, United Kingdom

Visualization in Scientific Computing: Uses in University 
Education 
(#ML4-6, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California at Irvine, 
Office of Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Handling Very Large Structural Models 
(#TL9-6, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
KEITH REDNER, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates 
Inc., Concord, MA

The Nature of Scientific Visualization 
(#TL10-6, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
ALAN BARNUM-SCRIVENER, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., 
Laguna Hills, CA

Multidimensional Visualization with AVS Applied to 
Semiconductor Simulation 
(#TL3-6, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
FRANKLIN BODINE, National Center for Computational 
Electronics, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Preserving Your Model Integrity 
(#TL4-6, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
KEITH REDMAN, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates 
Inc., Concord, MA

Dataflow Networks for Multilevel Simulation of Industrial 
Problems 
(#WL9-6, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
MENG LEAN, XEROX Corporation, North Tarrytown, NY

Architecture of the AVS Kernel:  Understanding How to Get 
Maximum Efficiency from Your Network 
(#WL10-6, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
JEFF VROOM, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., Waltham, MA

Nondestructive Testing Using AVS 
(#WL2-6, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
SUSAN B. WARMBRODT, Failure Analysis Associates, Inc., 
Menlo Park, CA

2nd Annual User Group Meeting 
(#WL3-6, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California, Office of 
Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Workshop

IDL:  The Interactive Data Language for AVS 
(#MW2-3, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; #TW9-3, 9 - 11:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WW2-3 2 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)  
DAVID FANNING, Research Systems Inc., Boulder, CO 
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Tutorials A

MAPLE5 and AVS 
(#MT9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday; #TT10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. 
Tuesday; #WT11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday) BENTON LEONG, 
Waterloo Maple Software, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and LYLE 
WIEDEMAN, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA  
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Image and Volume Data Processing Under AVS  Medical, MRI, 
GIS, Remote Sensing, and Oil and Gas Exploration 
(#MT4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; #TT9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. 
Tuesday; #WT10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
STEVE BONG AND BOB KING, Crystal Image Technologies, 
Huntsville, AL
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Theoretical Crystallography with AVS 
(#MT11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TT2-1, 2 - 2:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
DON JONES AND ERIN THORNTEN, Battelle-Pacific Northwest 
Laboratory, Richland, WA
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

The Rational Engineering Visualizer 
(#MT2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday; #TT3-1, 3 - 3:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)
KEITH REDNER, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates 
Inc., Concord, MA
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Introduction to the AVS Animator 
(#MT3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday; #TT4-1, 4 - 4:45 
p.m. Tuesday;  #TT5-1, 5 - 5:45 p.m. Tuesday; 
#TT6-1, 6 - 6:45 p.m. Tuesday; #WT9-1, 9 -9:45 a.m. 
Wednesday) HAM LORD, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., 
Waltham, MA

Mathematica and AVS 
(#MT4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; 
#TT9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT10-1, 10 - 10:45 
a.m. Wednesday) MATHEMATICA, Wolfram Research Inc., 
Champaign, IL
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Introduction to the Geometry Viewer 
(#TT5-2, 5 - 5:45 p.m. Tuesday; #TT6-2, 6 - 6:45 p.m. 
Tuesday)
KEN FLURCHICK, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC  

Tutorials B

Applications of AVS in the Earth Sciences at Oxford 
(#MT9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday; #TT10-2, 10 - 10:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WT11-2, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday)
KEITH REFSON, Oxford University, Department of Earth 
Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Multipolarization Workstation (MPWS) Software 
(#MT10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday; #TT11-2, 11 - 
11:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT2-2, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
CHRIS WILLIS, GEC-Marconi Research Center, Gread 
Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Writing Code in C Using the AVS Module Generator 
(#MT11-2, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TT2-2, 2 - 2:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
LARRY GELBERG, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., Waltham, MA
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Overview of AVS 5.0 
(#MT2-2, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday; #TT3-2, 3 - 3:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
HAM LORD OR LARRY GELBERG, Advanced Visual Systems 
Inc., Waltham, MA 

Introduction to the Network Editor 
(#MT3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m Monday; #TT4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. 
Tuesday; #TT8-2, 8 - 8:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT4-2, 
4 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday; #WT8-2, 
8 - 8:45 a.m. Wednesday)
STEVE THORPE, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC 

How to Visualize Your CFD Data Using AVS-FLOW 
(#MT10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday; #TT11-1, 11 - 
11:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
TARO ISHIGURO, ADAM NET LTD., Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, 
Tokyo, Japan
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 


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AVS as an Educational and Instructional Tool 
(#MP9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California at Irvine, 
Irvine, CA

Future Technology Needs for Medical Imaging 
(#MP10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Radiation Oncology, Ann Arbor, MI

Virtual Reality 
(#MP11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday)
DAVID BENNETT, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Data Management 
(#MP2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday)
TERRY MYERSON, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC 

Khoros:  A Visual Software Development Environment 
(#MP3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
JOHN RASURE AND TOM SAUER, 
The Khoros Group, University of New Mexico, Department 
of EECE, Albuquerque, NM

Future Directions and Features for AVS 
(#MP4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
Dave Kamins, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., Waltham, MA

Parallel Computing with AVS 
(#TP9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
TERRY MYERSON, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Distributed Computing with AVS 
(#TP10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
TERRY MYERSON, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Optimal Configurations for AVS Hardware 
(#TP11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Tuesday)
DAVID BENNETT, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

AVS Developers and Porters Panel 
(#TP2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Tuesday)
STEVE THORPE, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Reception and Keynote Address

Because you'll need plenty of time to experience the 
many exciting attractions in the Lake Buena Vista area, AVS 
'93 presents only one evening of conference activities.  
>From 5:15 to 7 p.m. on Monday, May 24, the AVS Gala
Reception features a magnificent variety of appetizing hors 
doeuvres and canapes guaranteed to satisfy the most 
discriminating taste.  The receptions focal point is the 
keynote address, from 5:45 - 6:15 p.m.  At 7 p.m., 
activities move on to the first AVS Video Review Theatre.

Dr. Larry Smarr, Director of the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications will be the keynote speaker.
Dr. Smarr, age 43, earned his bachelor's and 
master's degrees from the University of 
Missouri, a master's at Stanford University, and 
a doctorate from the University of Texas at 
Austin  (all are in Physics).  He conducted 
research while at Stanford and Texas, and later 
at Princeton and Yale universities.  For the 
three years before he joined the University of 
Illinois faculty in 1979, Smarr was a Junior 
Fellow in the Harvard University Society of 
Fellows.  An internationally recognized 
astrophysicist, Dr. Smarr has conducted 
observational, theoretical, and computational 
based research, resulting in the publication of 
over fifty scientific papers.  He currently is 
actively involved in research on the dynamics 
of black holes in general relativity.

Dr. Smarr has been one of the pioneers in the 
movement to dramatically increase the number 
of academic and industrial researchers using 
supercomputers to attack critical problems in 
research, development and manufacturing.  In 
1983, he initiated the first proposal to the 
National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a 
national supercomputer center.  He worked 
actively with Congress in 1984 to assure 
passage of the legislation which authorized the 
current set of NSF supercomputer centers and 
the NSFnet national network.  In 1985, Dr. 
Smarr became the Director of the National 
Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) 
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign (UIUC).  Since then, NCSA has been 
a pioneer in coupling desktop computing and 
scientific visualization with the leading edge of 
supercomputing.

Smarr is a Fellow of the American Physical 
Society and in 1990 he received the Franklin 
Institute's Delmer S. Fahrney Medal for 
Leadership in Science or Technology.  His views 
on supercomputers and science have been 
quoted widely in publications including the 
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, 
Business Week, Science, and Science News.  
Most recently, he has co-authored with William 
Kaufmann III, the book, Supercomputing and 
the Transformation of Science.  He travels 
extensively to give lectures on computational 
science and technology and to attend 
conferences and workshops in a  wide variety 
of disciplines, both in this country  and 
internationally.

AVS Video Review Theatre

The AVS '93 Committee is collecting AVS user videos 
from around the world and assembling a review of users
most interesting work representing every discipline.  This 
hour of AVS videos dramatically demonstrates how AVS is 
being used by others.  To contribute work for this showing, 
contact Steve Thorpe, International AVS Center/North 
Carolina Supercomputing Center, Post Office Box 12889, 
3021 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC 
27709-2889, telephone 919-248-1161, email 
avs@ncsc.org.

Advance Registration

The conference registration form at the back of this 
booklet (or a copy) should be used to submit advance 
registration for AVS '93.  Early registrations postmarked 
on or before March 1, 1993, receive a $75 discount.  The 
advance registration deadline is May 14.  All  registrations 
must be accompanied by payment.   After May 14, 1993, 
registrations must be done on-site.  The hands-on 
workshops and tutorials have limited space and may not be 
available to late registrants.

On-Site Registration

On-site registration is Sunday and Monday, May 23 and 
24, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN.
Conference staff will be available on-site at all times 
to assist attendees with questions. Late registrants may be 
put on waiting lists for workshops and tutorials.

Registration Discounts

Member Discount:  Each AVS User Group member qualifies 
for a member discount.

Student Discount:  To qualify for a student discount, a 
registrant must submit a copy of a current ACM or IEEE 
student membership card or a copy of a current student 
identification card.

Government Discount:  To qualify for a government discount, a 
registrant must submit a copy of a current government 
identification card.

Nonprofit Discount:  To qualify for a nonprofit discount, 
registrants must provide a copy of their organization's 
501(c)(3) status from the IRS. 

Payment

A check, money order, or valid MasterCard or Visa card 
authorization must accompany all registrations.  Checks or 
money orders must be in U.S. funds drawn on U.S. banks and 
made payable to MCNC.  Send payment and conference 
registration form to:

MCNC
Post Office Box 12889
3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park
NC 27709-2889   
USA   
Attention:  
Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey
Fax:  919-248-1445

Registration will not be valid until payment is received.  

The registration fee covers participation in  all exhibits, all 
panels, all lectures, up to two tutorials and one workshop; 
one copy of the workshop proceedings; all registration 
materials; refreshments during breaks; AVS Video Review 
Theatre; and an evening reception with canapes and hors 
doeuvres.  Tutorials and workshops are subject to 
availability due to limited seating and limited commitment 
of workstations.  Attendees may participate in additional 
workshops and tutorials at the rate of $150 per workshop 
and $50 per tutorial. The first 200 registrants receive a 
complimentary AVS '93 mug. There is no reduced fee for 
attending only part of the conference.

Refunds

	To receive a 100% refund, a written request must be 
received before May 1, 1993.  Send written requests to:

MCNC
Post Office Box 12889
3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park 
NC 27709-2889
USA
Attention:  
Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey

	No verbal requests for refunds will be accepted. No 
refunds will be issued after May 1, 1993.

Airline Information

Orlando International Airport accommodates most 
major airlines that serve the area surrounding the WALT 
DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN.  Service carriers include Delta, 
American, Bahamasair, British Airways, Continental, 
Iceland, KLM, Northwest, Sky Bus, Trump Shuttle, TWA, 
United, USAir, and Virgin Atlantic.

Local Transportation

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN is located at 1500 
EPCOT Resorts Boulevard in Lake Buena Vista, two miles 
southwest of the Interstate 4 and State Route 536 
intersection.  Rental cars are available at Orlando 
International Airport.  In addition, buses depart the airport 
for the WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN every half hour 
with fares of $12.50 for adults and $9.50 for children ages 
4-14.  Taxi fare from the airport to the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN is approximately $25.

WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN

All AVS '93 events are held at the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN, a year-round resort in the center of the 
WALT DISNEY WORLD Resort between EPCOT Center and The 
Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park.  The hotel is located near 
Typhoon Lagoon, Pleasure Island, and the MAGIC KINGDOM 
Park.  The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN has seven 
restaurants and four lounges offering an extraordinary 
variety of American, Chinese, and Italian cuisine.
AVS '93 has a reserved block of discounted rooms at the 
WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN.

Daily rates for single or double:  $130
Government, student, or nonprofit:  $100 single, $120 double
(current and valid identification must be presented to the
hotel in order to receive these rates)
Extra-person charge per room:  $15
Children under age 18:  Free with parents (using existing 
bedding)
Sales tax:  6%
Resort tax:  4%
Check-in time:  3 p.m.
Check-out time:  11 a.m.
Payment:  Personal checks, money orders, or valid credit 
card

Please make reservations directly with the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN by sending in the hotel registration form in the 
back of this booklet, by fax at 407-934-4710, or by mail.  
Please indicate your affiliation with MCNC's International 
AVS User Group Conference and Exhibition.

Accommodations for Guests with Disabilities

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN has 43 accessible 
rooms designed for guests with limited mobility, including 
guests in wheelchairs.  For more information on special-
needs accommodations at the WALT DISNEY WORLD 
DOLPHIN, telephone 1-800-227-1500.

Spouse/Family Program

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN offers numerous 
services to assist guests with transportation and admission 
to a variety of attractions such as the EPCOT Center, 
Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park, Typhoon Lagoon, 
Pleasure Island, the MAGIC KINGDOM Park, River Country, 
and Discovery Island.

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN itself contains 
numerous boutiques and gift shops and features the 
following amenities.

 	Supervised youth programs
 	Game rooms
 	Health studio
 	Grotto pool
 	White-sand beach
 	Tennis courts
 	Volleyball courts
 	Sailboats and paddle boats
 	Nearby golf courses

Further details are available through the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN reservations desk, telephone 1-800-
227-1500.

Area Attractions

	The seven theme lands of the WALT DISNEY WORLD 
Magic Kingdom Park are designed to bring out the child in 
everyone.  Main Street U.S.A. is a re-creation of turn-of-
the-century America.  Adventureland features a jungle 
cruise and an encounter with pirates.  Other areas are 
Frontierland, Liberty Square, Fantasyland, Tomorrowland, 
and Mickeys Starland.  All feature theme rides and shows.
	The newest addition to the WALT DISNEY WORLD theme 
park family is the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park.  
Visitors can stroll Hollywood Boulevard as it was in the 
magical '30s and '40s, and then take the fabulous Backstage 
Studio Tour with Catastrophe Canyon, a special effects 
adventure.  The Magic of Disney Animation features a walk 
through the fascinating world of animation.  Disney-MGM 
Studios Theme Park offers exciting opportunities to see 
actual movies and television shows being made, from 
filming to postproduction.
	WALT DISNEY WORLD attractions also feature enough 
golf courses and tennis courts to challenge even the most 
accomplished athlete.  And theme-oriented nightclubs create 
worlds of excitement to celebrate till dawn.

Questions?

	Administrative questions regarding AVS '93 should be 
directed to Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey at 919-248-1841, 
email gebuhr@mcnc.org.  Technical questions and questions 
about AVS User Group membership should be directed to 
David Bennett at 919-248-1182, email avs@ncsc.org.  
Exhibition questions should be directed to Ann Cadran at 
919-248-1432, email cadran@mcnc.org. 
AVS Video Review Theatre questions should be directed to 
Steve Thorpe at 919-248-1161, email avs@ncsc.org.

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The registration fee covers exhibits, panels, lectures, up to two 
tutorials and one workshop, one copy of the workshop proceedings, 
registration materials, refreshments during breaks, AVS Video 
Review Theatre, and an evening reception.


				Early Registration	After March 1, 1993
			(postmarked on or before 3/1/93)

AVS user group member		$495				$570
Nonmember			$545				$620

(You must provide a copy of current identification or documentation 
for the following categories.)

Student/government/nonprofit
member of AVS user group	$395                            $470

Student/government/nonprofit
nonmember 			$445				$520

Each additional workshop 	$150				$150
(one included with base registration) 

Each additional  tutorial 	$ 50				$ 50
(two included with base registration)
	
				Base registration fee	$
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		Additional workshops  (each @ $150)	$
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		Additional tutorials  (each @ $ 50)	$
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						TOTAL	$
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Please fax or mail your registration form.  Make fees payable to 
MCNC by check, money order, MasterCard, or Visa.  Checks must be 
in U.S. dollars and drawn on U.S. banks.  Telephone registrations will 
not be accepted.  Faxed registrations must include credit card 
numbers and signatures. The deadline for advance registration is 
May 14, 1993.  After May 14, 1993, you must register on site.  MCNC 
cannot be responsible for or confirm registrations mailed after this 
date.

Please check form of payment.

Check  |     | 	    MasterCard	|     |     Visa  |     | 
	
Credit card number: 				Amount $:
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Name as it appears on credit card:
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Expiration date:
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Authorized signature (required):
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Cancellation/Refund Policy

Written cancellations received before May 1, 1993, will receive full 
refund of conference registration fee.

Complete and return this form with your payment to:

			     MCNC
	Post Office Box 12889	3021 Cornwallis Road
   Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2889 USA
	Phone 919-248-1841	Fax 919-248-1445
	  Attention:  Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey

	       KEEP A COPY FOR YOUR RECORDS.


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			HOTEL REGISTRATION FORM
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				AVS '93 
    2nd Annual International AVS User Group Conference and Exhibition
		      WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN
	            1500 EPCOT Resorts Boulevard
			Post Office Box 22653
	           Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830-2653
		            407-934-4290
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Please type or print all information.

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Zip:				Country:
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Arrival date:				Departure date:
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(Check in 3 p.m.; check out 11 a.m.)

Room Fees (If selected room is unavailable, one at the nearest rate 
will be reserved.  Rates are subject to 6% sales tax and 4% resort tax.)  
Published rates are applicable two days prior and two days after the 
conference dates.

Student/government/nonprofit rate:	$100 single, $120 double  
(Proper documentation must be presented for this category.)

Regular conference rate:		$130 single/double

Room required:
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Sharing room with:
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Special requests:
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	Smoking 	Nonsmoking          Accessible room
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Payment

Enclosed is a check or money order for $	     .	
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		American Express	Diners Club	Enroute	
		JOE			Carte Blanche	Discover

Credit card #					for $
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Credit card expiration date:
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Name as appears on credit card:
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Signature of credit card holder:
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Conference rate applies only to reservations made up until April 20.  
Every effort will be made to confirm room selection.  A deposit equal 
to one nights stay is required to hold a reservation.  Failure to cancel 
a reservation five days prior to arrival results in forfeit of deposit.  
Reservations are subject to cancellation if deposit is not received.  
Extra-person charges are $15 per night.  Children under 18 may stay 
at no cost with parents, provided no extra bedding is needed.

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Complete and return this form with your payment or credit card 
authorization to WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN,1500 EPCOT Resorts 
Boulevard, Post Office Box 22653, Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830-2653.   
Fax 407-934-4710.   DO NOT SEND THIS FORM TO MCNC.
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                        	AVS '93
	         2nd Annual International AVS User Group 
                       Conference and Exhibition
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AVS '93, the 2nd Annual International AVS User Group 
Conference and Exhibition, is presented by the International 
AVS Center and the North Carolina Supercomputing Center, a 
division of MCNC, in cooperation with the AVS Consortium.  The 
AVS Consortium consists of Advanced Visual Systems Inc., 
CONVEX Computer Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, 
Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Kubota Pacific Company Inc., 
and SUN Microsystems Inc.

MCNC is a private, nonprofit research consortium involving 
North Carolina and its industry, universities, and research 
institutes.  MCNC provides advanced capabilities and expertise 
in microelectronics, communications, and high-performance 
computing to support industry, education, and research in 
North Carolina.  It promotes joint research opportunities among 
its industry and academic consortium members and addresses 
specific technology challenges.

NCSC supports industrial and academic initiatives through 
research collaborations, partnerships, computational science 
support, high-performance computing, education programs, and 
related activities.  NCSC also facilitates research in the areas of 
computational science, scientific visualization, and computer 
science.

The International AVS Center, housed at NCSC, is the worldwide 
clearinghouse for collecting, porting, and distributing public-
domain visualization modules.  These modules enable dramatic 
advances in the scope and speed of research in a variety of 
disciplines.  The International AVS Center serves as a catalyst 
for expanding the AVS user base and for increasing AVS 
functionality by fostering discipline-specific module 
development and new AVS uses.


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               Advance Program Image Credits
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Center Image
Computed Fermi surface for the high-temperature 92 K 123 
superconductor, with colors representing the Fermi 
velocity.  From Pickett, Krakauer, Cohen, and Singh, Science  
255, 46-54, 1992; cover image by Ronald E. Cohen of the 
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC.

Border Image
Image processing for regional identification, with 
urbanization highlighted in red.  Image by Wes Bethel of 
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.

Right Interior Image
Molecular dynamics simulation of particles colliding with a 
spherical boundary.  Image by Ken Flurchick of the North 
Carolina Supercomputing Center (NCSC), Research Triangle 
Park, NC.  Original AVS module written by NCSCs Dave 
Bock.

Left Interior Image
Three-dimensional surface representation of the binding 
pocket of an antibody containing a synthetic peptide 
consisting of residues 100-108 of the influenza virus 
hemagglutinin protein.  Image by U. Schulze-Gahmen and M. 
Pique of the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La 
Jolla, CA.
-- 
International AVS Center
North Carolina Supercomputing Center
avs@ncsc.org


From hagedorn@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov (John Hagedorn)
Subject: Can I attach metadata to a field?
Message-ID: <1993Feb25.173331@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Sender: usenet@skates.gsfc.nasa.gov
Reply-To: hagedorn@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov (John Hagedorn)
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 22:33:31 GMT
Lines: 33


I am writing my own AVS modules for handling meteorological data.  The 
data sets are gridded so they fit nicely into the AVS field data type,
but I find that I want to carry along various descriptive data.  These
data would include things like descriptions of coordinate systems,
map projections, labels, and units.  The labels and units facility
provided by AVS is not nearly sufficient.

Is there a way of attaching such auxiliary data to a field?  

One alternative is to create a user-defined data type to hold this 
information, but this would force the user to make two data 
connections when only one is logically required.  It would also
introduce the possibility of making incorrect pairings of fields
and descriptive data.  I would like to encapsulate both the field
and the descriptive data into one data flow.  Ideally, this data type 
would simply be a field that contains some additional stuff, so that
it could be sent to all of the modules that handle fields.

Another possibility is to include a tag somewhere in the field data
structure that enables a module to retrieve descriptive data.  But
I don't see any way to attach such a tag.

Has anyone tried to deal with this problem of attaching metadata to
a field?  I've looked at the AVS ftp site and in the archives of this 
group, but I couldn't find anything.

Thanks.

John Hagedorn  Code 912 NASA/GSFC   hagedorn@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov  (301)
286-7374




From cohen@quartz.ciw.edu (Ronald Cohen)
Subject: AVS 3D geometry of the Earth
Sender: usenet@granite.ciw.edu
Message-ID: <28Feb93.182657.16782@granite.ciw.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 93 18:26:57 GMT
Organization: Geophysical Laboratory, CIW
Lines: 12


I posted this request a few weeks ago and didn't get any
positive responses.  Has no one managed to make a pretty 3D geometry of
the Earth using AVS?  If you have, please let me know, and if
you let me use it I will give you full attribution in the
caption.  This will be submitted to Nature, but the way.  I have
a very short time until submittal now, so I would appreciate a
quick response.  Thanks,
-- 
Ronald Cohen
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington
5251 Broad Branch Rd., N.W.,  Washington, D.C. 20015


