The University of Manchester: CGU Publications

The Computer Graphics Unit is serving a number of publications on the Web. This is a non-comprehensive list of recent publications by students and staff of the CGU. Where possible links are included to gzipp'ed PostScript versions of the papers. These copies are released for personal use only, please speak to us if you wish to reproduce them for any other reason, and we will put you in touch with the organisations which hold the copyright.


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Theses
Reports

Papers

1996

Hutchinson, D., Lin F., Hewitt, W.T. Surface Graph Sketching. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics '96) 15(3), Poitiers. To Appear.
Preston, M., Hewitt, W.T. Integrating Computer Animation and Multimedia. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics '96) 15(3), Poitiers. To Appear. (An outline of this work).
Preston, M. A Motion Generator Framework. In Proceedings of Computer Animation '96, Geneva. To Appear. (An outline of this work).
Larkin, S; Grant, A; Hewitt, W.T. Vipar Libraries to Support Distributed Processing of Visualization Data. In Proceedings of HPCN Europe '96. Brussels, Belgium. To Appear.
Irwin, J. Full-Spectral Rendering of the Earth's Atmosphere Using a Physical Model of Rayleigh Scattering. In Proceedings of the 1996 Eurographics UK Conference, London. pp 103-115 (Vol 1). (An outline of this work).
Preston, M; Lever, P. Scene Description Issues for Computer Graphics. In Proceedings of the 1996 Eurographics UK Conference, London. pp 49-60 (Vol 1).
Larkin, S; Grant, A; Hewitt, W.T. A Data Decomposition Tool for Writing Parallel Modules in Visualization Systems. In Proceedings of the 1996 Eurographics UK Conference, London. pp 205-216 (Vol 1).

1995

Irwin J, Hewitt W T, Howard T L J, ITTI Computer Graphics and Visualisation - Lighting and Shading. ISBN 1 85889 064 0, UCoSDA, UK, October 1995.
Lilley, C; Not Just Decoration : Quality Graphics for the Web. World Wide Web Journal 1(1):291-307, Boston, 1995.
Lin F, Wyrwas K, Irwin J, Lilley C, Hewitt W T, Howard T L J, ITTI Computer Graphics and Visualisation - Geometry for Computer Graphics. ISBN 1 85889 059 4, UCoSDA, UK, May 1995.
Preston, Martin. Parallel Spacetime Animation. In Proceedings of Sixth Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation. Maastricht, 1995. (An outline of this work).
Müller, S.; Kresse, W; Gatenby, N.; Schöffel, F. A Radiosity Approach for the Simulation of Daylight. In Proceedings of Sixth Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Dublin, 1995. (Postscript stored in Darmstadt, Germany)
Hewitt, W.T.; Preston, M.; Lever, P.Video Production in a Visualisation Environment. In Proceedings of the 1995 Eurographics UK Conference, Loughborough, 1995, pp 187-205
Lilley, C.C. Active Web Pages. In Proceedings of the 1995 Eurographics UK Conference, Loughborough, 1995, pp 267-281
Preston, Martin. Parallel Motion Synthesis. In High Performance Computing for Computer Graphics and Visualisation (Proceedings of International Workshop on HPC for Computer Graphics and Visualisation). Springer-Verlag, 1995, pp. 165-185. (An outline of this work)
Keane, J; Grant, A.J.; Xu, M.Q. A Comparison of Distributed Memory and Virtual Shared Memory Parallel Computers. In Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 12 North-Holland January 1995. Originally printed in Proceedings of 4th Meiko User group conference, Southampton, 1993.
Keane, J; Franklin, T.; Dipper, R.; Grant, A.J; Sumner, R; Xu, M. Benchmarking Finanacial Database Queries on a Parallel Machine, In Proceedings of 28th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, HICSS-28, IEEE Press, Vol 1 pp 402-411, Hawaii, USA, January 1995 .
Grant, A.J. (guest editor with Prof. Peter Sloot, Amsterdam). Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 12, January, North Holland.

1994

Lin, F.; Hewitt, W.T. Expressing Coons-Gordon Surfaces as NURBS. Computer Aided Design 26(2), 1994.
Preston, M.; Hewitt, W.T. Animation using NURBS. Computer Graphics Forum 13(4), 1994, pp229-241. (An outline of this work.)
Delfosse, José; Hewitt, W.T.; Mériaux, Michel. An Investigation of Discrete Ray-Tracing. In 4th Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Graphics Imagery, Grenoble,1994.
Lilley, C.C; Lin, F; Hewitt, W.T.; Howard, T.L.J. The Design and Development of Distance Learning Materials for Graphics and Visualisation. In Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Visualisation Education (GVE), Barcelona, 1993. Also reprinted in Computers & Graphics 18(3), pp269-275
Lilley, C.C. An Introduction to Standardised Colour Measurement. in Proceedings of 12th Eurographics UK Conference, 22-24 March 1994 pp 163-177
Gatenby, Neil; Hewitt, W.T. Optimizing Discontinuity Meshing Radiosity. In Fifth Eurographics Workshop on Rendering , Darmstadt, 1994.
Herman, I.; ten Hagen, P; Reynolds, G; Carson, S; Davy, J.; Duce, D; Hewitt, W; Kansy, K, Lurvey, B; Stenzel, H. PREMO: An ISO Standard for a Presentation Environment for Multimedia Objects. In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia '94, San Francisco, 1994, pp 111-118.
Brodlie, K; Hewitt, W.T.; Larkin, S; Willis, P.J.; Gallop, J.R. Graphics and Visualisation - Techniques and Tools: A course for Postgraduates of All Disciplines. Computers & Graphics, 18(3), 1994, pp 263-268

1993

Grant, A.J.; Dickens, R. A CS Tools Implementation of a Portable Instrumented Communications Library. In Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 9 (1993) North-Holland
Williams, J.G; Howard, T.L.J; Hewitt, W.T; Larkin, S. The PHIGS Toolkit: A Suite of Integrated Support Software for PHIGS. In 1st International PHIGS Conference, 1993, Florida.
Lilley, C.C.; Lin, F.; Hewitt, W.T.; Howard, T.L.J. ITTI Computer Graphics and Visualisation - Visualisation 1: Graphical Communication. ISBN 1 85889 027 6, CVCP/USDU, UK, December 1993. (more details)
Lilley, C.C.; Lin, F.; Hewitt, W.T.; Howard, T.L.J. ITTI Computer Graphics and Visualisation - Colour in Computer Graphics. ISBN 1 85889 022 5, CVCP/USDU, UK, December 1993.
Lilley, C.C.; Lin, F.; Hewitt, W.T.; Howard, T.L.J. ITTI Computer Graphics and Visualisation - Standards for Computer Graphics. ISBN 1 85889 017 9, CVCP/USDU, UK, December 1993.
Grant, A.J.; Zuffo, M.K. Approaches to Direct Volume Rendering on Distributed Memory and Virtual Shared Memory Parallel Computers. In Proceedings of BCS Conference on Parallel Processing for Graphics and Scientific Visualisation, Edinburgh, May 1993
Zuffo, M.K.; Grant, A.J. RTV: A Package for the Visualisation of Three Dimensional Medical Data. In Proceedings of SIBGRAPI'93, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1993.
Keane, J; Grant, A.J.; Franklin, T.; Sumner, R. Commercial Users' Requirements for Parallel Machines, In Proceedings of the DAGS `93 Conference, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, June, 1993.
Grant, A.J. Multiprocessor AVS. In Proceedings of the AVS UK Users group conference, Imperial College, London.
Grant, A.J. (guest editor with Prof. Peter Sloot, Amsterdam). Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 9,Number 1, May, North Holland.

1992

Grant, A.J. Performance Monitoring of Distributed Memory Parallel Programs. In Proceeding of the 2nd IEEE EPUSP Conference on High Performance Computing, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1992
Hewitt, W.T.; Lin, F.; Preston, M. NURBS - A Tool or an Ornament for Graphics?. In Eurographics '92 State of the Art Reports, Cambridge, 1992.
Ford, T; Grant, A.J. Volume Rendering on the Computing Surface". In Proceedings of the Parallel Computing and Transputer Applications Conference, Barcelona, September, 1992.

1991

Gatenby, Neil; Hewitt, Terry. Radiosity in Computer Graphics: A Proposed Alternative to the Hemi-Cube Algorithm. In Second Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Barcelona, 1991. Also reprinted in "Photorealistic Rendering in Computer Graphics", Springer-Verlag, pp104-111.
Howard, T.L.J; Hewitt, W.T.; Hubbold, R.J.; Wyrwas, K. A Practical Introduction to PHIGS and PHIGSPLUS. Addison Wesley, 1991.
Hewitt, W.T.; Grave, M.; Roch, M. (editors). Advances in Computer Graphics IV. Springer-Verlag, 1991.
Hubbold, R.J; Hewitt, W.T. GKS-3D vs. PHIGS. In Advances in Computer Graphics IV, Springer-Verlag, 1991.

1990

Howard, T.L.J; Hewitt, W.T.; Larkin, S. An Interactive Debugger for PHIGS. In Proceedings of Eurographics '90, 1990, Montreux, pp177-193.

Previous Years

Wyrwas, K.M.; Hewitt, W.T. A Survey of Engineering Boards Requirements for Computer Graphics & A Survey of GKS and PHIGS Implementations. Parts I & II of the Final Report of SERC Contract N2A 9M 0050, October 1988.
Hewitt, W.T. Report of CFTAG Workshop : Graphics Standards - Good or Bad for Engineers?, 1988.
Finnegan, D.C.; Arnold, A.C.; Hewitt, W.T. Evaluation of GKS in an Engineering Application. Final Report of SERC Contract N2A 9M 0052, October 1988.
Lau, Y.K.; Howard, T.; Hewitt, W.T. The PHIGS Demonstrator. Final Report of SERC Contract N2A 9M 0051, October 1988.
Hewitt, W.T. Towards a Graphics Standard for 3D (GKS-3D). In Advances in Computer Graphics I, Springer-Verlag, 1986.
Hewitt, W.T., Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System (PHIGS). In Advances in Computer Graphics I, Springer-Verlag, 1986.
Hewitt, W.T. et. al. GKS-3D - Graphical Kernel System for 3 Dimensions System. ISO Draft International Standard, 1985.
Hewitt, W.T. et. al. PHIGS - Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System. ISO Draft International Standard, 1985.
Hewitt, W.T. PHIGS - Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System. In Computer Graphics Forum, 4(3):299-300, December 1984.
Hewitt, W.T. Algorithm section in Computer Graphics Forum, 1(3):111-114, March 1984.
Hubbold, R.J.; Hewitt, W.T.; Arnold, A.C. The Design and Use of a High Performance Device Independent Interactive Computer Graphics System. In Proceedings of Nicograph '83 Conference.
Hewitt, W.T.; Hubbold, R.J.; Arnold, A.C. Raster Graphics at the University of Manchester. In Computer Graphics Forum,1(2):58-70, June 1982

Theses

Preston, Martin. Parallel Motion Synthesis with Space-Time Control. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Manchester, 1995.
Gatenby, Neil. Optimising Discontinuity Meshing Radiosity. Ph.D. thesis, University of Manchester, 1995. (An outline of this work).
Gammage, Dean. A Comparison of Physically and Empirically Based Illumination Models. M.Sc. thesis, University of Manchester, 1993.
Hutchinson, David J. Monte Carlo Path Tracing for Photorealism. M.Sc. thesis, University of Manchester, 1993. (An outline of this work).
Cook, Geoff. Parallel Ray-Tracing of Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines. M.Sc. thesis, University of Manchester, 1992. (An outline of this work).
Preston, Martin. Temporal Issues in the Rendering of Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline Surfaces. M.Sc. thesis, University of Manchester, 1992. (An outline of this work)
Gatenby, Neil. Radiosity in Computer Graphics: A Proposed Alternative to the Hemi-cube Algorithm. M.Sc. thesis, University of Manchester, 1991.

Reports

Gatenby, Neil; Preston, Martin; Hewitt, W.T. The Manchester Scene Description Language (MSDL) V1.01.
Hewitt, W.T.; Yip, D. The NURBS Procedure Library

Martin Preston