Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:09:10 -0500 (EST) From: Colin Godfrey Subject: SIGGRAPH/Boston at UMass Boston, Wed. 10 April: X3D SIGGRAPH/Boston Meeting Announcement VRML++ what?? No, it's X3D Nicholas Polys, VirtuWorlds LLC Place: Presentation Room 2 Floor LL, Healey Library University of Massachusetts Boston Time: Wednesday April 10, 2002 Networking time will start at 6:30 pm. The feature presentation will start at 7:00. The April 10 meeting will be a presentation about the newest internet 3D protocol: X3D. X3D is a direct descendent of VRML and the most exciting development in 3D graphics. X3D is backwards compatable with VRML but includes many important extensions. There is strong commercial involvement from companies such as Blaxxun, Openworlds and ParallelGraphics. Nicholas Polys who is active on the standards committee will be giving an overview of where development is going, new features, an overview of the architecture, and maybe even a bit of gossip on the 3D industry! Read more on the X3D site: http://www.web3d.org/x3d.html Nicholas Polys is Founder, CTO, and Media Amoeba at VirtuWorlds LLC, an international consulting and production house for web graphics and data systems. Mr. Polys currently manages research and development, distributed operations, and production for VirtuWorlds and its online destinations, while evaluating new technologies, software integration, and strategic alliances. Over the last 3 years, Mr. Polys has written numerous technical pieces on Web3D technology for The 3DeZine, an online publication for the Web3D industry, including news, tutorials, and analysis. He has extensive Web3D production experience delivering robust multi-media solutions for clients and has developed The VirtuPortal, a quarterly collection of the best of the 3D Web as well as the Web3D Consortium's Software Development Kit (SDK). His current product-research activities are focused on user-centric 3D interface design and XML data integration. Nicholas received his BA in Cognitive Science from Vassar College and is currently serving his 2nd term on the Board of Directors of the Web3D Consortium. He is an active contributor to new X3D specification and related working groups, liaison to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C - WAI, SMIL) and member of the Siggraph Online Committee (2001 & 2002). Mr. Polys has enjoyed presenting at national and international digital media conferences and symposia Including Web3D and Stuttgart Filmwinter. ************************************************************************ Directions to UMass Boston are available at: http://www.umb.edu/about_umb/directions.html A free shuttle bus connects the campus to the JFK/UMass stop on the T Red Line. For those driving, parking is $4. The Healey Library entrance is on the second floor walkway that connects the campus buildings, between the administration building and the Science Center. (See map at http://www.umb.edu/campus_tour/well/index.html). If you take the T, you'll first enter the administration building. Take the elevators to the second floor, then go right for the walkway. The library is the next building, on the right (South) side of the walkway. If you drive, it's probably easiest to park, then walk back toward the way you drove in, to enter the administration building, then go to the second floor and take the walkway to the Healey Library. When you are in the Healey Library take the elevator down to floor LL (Lower Level), then bear right to find Presentation Room 2. ************************************************************************ SIGGRAPH/Boston Contacts WWW: http://www.siggraph.org/chapters/boston SIGGRAPH/Boston maintains a mailing list for e-mail announcements of meetings. Send e-mail to siggraphdistrib-request@cs.umb.edu if you want be added to or dropped from this list. _______________________________________________ Cone-cal mailing list Cone-cal@blu.org http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/cone-cal