Sydney VisLab News - Year 1995

Email: VisLab email addresses have changed from username@vislab.su.edu.au to username@vislab.usyd.edu.au<

Host Names: The full names of all machines have changed accordingly, for example to connect to redgate remotely, you should now use: % rlogin redgate.vislab.usyd.edu.au

VisLab will also be one of the foundation tennants at the Australian Technology Park, the first stage of which is nearing completion in Redfern. We will be setting up a second training lab, and together with the University of New South Wales and the Australian Super-Computing Facility will be operating a 16 processor SGI Challenge supercomputer.

You can choose one of them from the ToolChest menu: Desktop -> Customise -> Screen Saver.

The new modeller and sop editor SAGE has been installed. Just type

% sage
at the unix prompt on a prisms-licensed workstation to see it. This release is an indication of what we may expect when the Houdini package is released by Side Effects.

Why not have a browse of it now ?

mica

mica (the Multiple Image Conversion Application) will convert between any image format and will operate on multiple files (batch mode). For help type:

% mica

photo

photo is a new utility that replaces 'slide' for taking photos of the screen. photo has the added feature of being able to view multiple images and in either zoomed or unzoomed format, with a choice of background colours. To run photo the command is:

% photo [image1] [image2] [...

An internet video conference was setup over six sites, including the Mercury and Iris Cinemas in Adelaide, with an audience of approximately 300 people. Guests included Don Dunstan (Adelaide site), Virtual Artists (Brisbane site), and multimeda artist Koichi Mori (Japan site). Cathy Robinson (CEO Australian Film Commission) and Sue Milliken (Chair Australian Film Commission) joined the internet celebrations from VisLab (Sydney site). Phillip Adams (ABC Radio National) sent his apologies at the last minute as he was unable to attend.

Above is a screenshot taken at the end of the video conference, click on it to see a full size view (JPEG 78 K).

                Date:     Thu-Fri 20/21th July
                Duration: 2 Day
                Location: VisLab
                Start:    10am Thurs
                Finish:    5pm Fri
                Speaker:  Geoff Horne + colleagues

        Morning and afternoon tea will be provided.

Animations may be based on scientific data or a conceptual model. The course is based around the Prisms suite of software and covers creating and importing computer models, animating and rendering.

The course will consist of lecture sessions interspersed with demonstrations and tutorials.

Course attendance is by application only and places are limited.

Please e-mail applications to: office@vislab.usyd.edu.au

                Date:     Friday 14th July
                Duration: 1 Day
                Location: VisLab
                Start:    10am
                Finish:    5pm
                Speaker:  Kim Lester

        Morning and Afternoon tea will be provided

The course is aimed at VisLab members wishing to learn AVS and be introduced to the broad concepts of scientific visualisation.

Course content is lecture oriented with a number of examples/exercises using AVS interspersed.

Serveral visualisation issues will be visited including image processing, data format conversion, animation, image requirements for good quality video production.

Course attendance is by application only and places are limited. There will be approx 2 persons per workstation.

Please e-mail applications to: office@vislab.usyd.edu.au

To run xv just type: % xv

If you need to use the older version (3.0) you should type: % xv3.0