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24th June, 2010

47th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Screening of Part 2 of the 2009 SIGGRAPH electronic theatre at RMIT.

Grateful thanks to Geoff Leach for organising the venue.

29th April, 2010

46th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Screening of Part 1 of the 2009 SIGGRAPH electronic theatre at RMIT.

Grateful thanks to Geoff Leach for organising the venue.

17th December, 2009

45th meeting: 7.00 PM.

End of year get together. Oxford Hotel, Swanston St (opposite RMIT), Melbourne.

29th October, 2009

44th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Informal get together. Oxford Hotel, Swanston St (opposite RMIT), Melbourne.

4th June, 2009

43rd meeting: 7.00 PM.

Screening of the 2008 SIGGRAPH Asia electronic theatre at RMIT.

Grateful thanks to Geoff Leach for organising the venue.

5th February, 2009

42nd meeting: 7.00 PM.

Start of year get together. Oxford Hotel, Swanston St (opposite RMIT), Melbourne.

13th November, 2008

41st meeting: 7.00 PM.

Screening of the 2008 SIGGRAPH electronic theatre at RMIT.

Grateful thanks to Geoff Leach for organising the venue.

24th July, 2008

40th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Mid year get together. Oxford Hotel, Swanston St (opposite RMIT), Melbourne.

3rd June, 2008

39th meeting: 6.00 PM.

Vibeke Soerensen gave her talk "Synthetic Character in an Imperfect World" at the ACMI Cinemas, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

Grateful thanks to Alessio Cavellero and all the other people at ACMI for providing the venue and organising the facilities.

28th February, 2008

38th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Start of year catch up at the Oxford Hotel, Swanston St, Melbourne.

13th December, 2007

37th meeting: 7.00 PM.

End of year catch up at the Oxford Hotel, Swanston St, Melbourne.

27th September, 2007

36th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Viewing of the SIGGRAPH 2007 electronic theatre.

Grateful thanks to Geoff Leach for organising the venue.

5th June, 2007

35th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Stefan Grueter gave us a preview of his upcoming talk on a procedural approach to generating virtual street networks for gaming.

Grateful thanks to Geoff Leach for organising the venue, and Stefan Grueter for giving his talk.

29th March, 2007

34th meeting: 7.00 PM.

More general discussion and more dinner.

Grateful thanks to Geoff Leach for organising the venue.

15th February, 2007

33rd meeting: 7.00 PM.

General discussion and dinner.

Grateful thanks to Geoff Leach for organising the venue.

28th September, 2006

32nd meeting: 7.00 PM.

We viewed the SIGGRAPH 2006 Electronic Theatre.

20th July, 2006

31st meeting: 7.00 PM.

Presentation on Blue Ray and digital widescreen projection technology.

Grateful thanks to Geoff Leach for organising the venue.

4th May, 2006

30th meeting: 7.00 PM.

The meeting's topic was a brief introduction and discussion on Color Science, and it's importance in Computer Graphics, presented by Graeme Gill.

Grateful thanks to Graeme for taking the time to present and Geoff Leach for organising the venue.

16th February, 2006

29th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Paul Arden from Luminova presented some recent projects and demonstrations based on RealityServer(TM) technology for real-time web based deployment of massive interactive 3D databases as well as some other tools.

Grateful thanks to Paul for his presentation and organising the venue.

17th November, 2005

28th meeting: 7.00 PM.

End of year dinner and planning meeting. Last line says it all!

20th October, 2005

27th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Screening of the 2005 Electronic Theatre at the Widescreen Room, School for Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.

Grateful thanks to Peter Morse for organising the venue.

15th September, 2005

26th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Drew Berry gave a demonstration of some more of the work that has been done at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Followed by general discussion. All at the Widescreen Room, School for Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.

Grateful thanks to Drew for his presentation and to Peter Morse for organising the venue.

28th June, 2005

25th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Attended the session on the recent E3 Expo run by Dissecta at the Games Innovation Center, Queens Rd, Melbourne.

19th May, 2005

24th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Swinburne University, Virtual Reality Theatrette (Room AS406) Cnr. Burwood Rd. and Serpells Lane, Hawthorn.
 
Visualising realtime motion data by John McCormick from Company In Space.
 
An interactive discussion on motion capture and data visualisation using stereo 3D imagery. Different relationships between two movement datasets were explored and a rudimentary tactile display was also discussed.

Thanks must go to Paul Bourke, at Swinburne, for arranging the use of the Virtual Reality Theatrette at Swinburne.

6th April, 2005

23rd meeting: 7.30 PM.

Planning meeting at RMIT and the Inck Cafe.. Easy!

Thanks must go to Geoff Leach, at RMIT, for arranging the facilities at RMIT again.

27th October, 2004

22nd meeting: 7.30 PM.

We viewed the SIGGRAPH 2004 Video Show at the Widescreen Room, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne - with door prizes! Then a few of us went off to Lygon St for dinner. Easy!

Thanks must go to Dr Peter Morse, at the School of Creative Arts, for arranging the venue again.

26th August, 2004

21st meeting: 6.30 PM.

SkySkan Demonstration.

SkySkan is the US-based company that began what has become high definition fulldome video for dome screens (mainly planetariums). SkySkan Australia is mainly devoted to developing fulldome productions for the US and European markets, currently the Smithsonian. Jack White and Jennie Zeiher demonstrated the systems in a portable 4m dome including work from Swinburne Astrophysics and Walter & Eliza Hall.

A big thanks to Jack and Jennie for hosting the meeting and dealing with everyone's questions.

22nd July, 2004

20th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Web-based Realtime 3D as a Live Performance Medium.

Adam Nash talked about his experience using VRML/X3D in single-user and multi-user modes as live performance device, and the potential for web3d as a medium of artistic expression. In addition he demonstrated excerpts of his works Scorched Happiness, Chromacy, and Memory Plains Returning. Adam Nash has performed and exhibited works in the UK, Thailand, Europe and Australia, most recently at ACMI/NGV as part of the 2004 - Australian Culture Now exhibition, and Web3DArt 2004 at Siggraph 2004.

Thanks again must go to Geoff Leach for organising the venue, and to Adam for taking the time to talk to us.

28th April, 2004

19th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Two presentations:

Thanks again must go to Geoff Leach for organising the venue, and the presenters for providing such interesting material.

25th February, 2004

18th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Three presentations:

Thanks must go to Geoff Leach for organising the venue, and the presenters for providing such an interesting meeting.

26th November, 2003

17th meeting: 7.00 PM.

Special General Meeting. It was time for the incorporated body we know as Melbourne ACM SIGGRAPH Inc to grow up and become ANZGRAPH Inc. History in the making! Don't worry about the Melbourne Chapter though, we reformed as soon as this was done.

Thanks must go to Dr Peter Morse, at the School of Creative Arts, for arranging the venue again, and to everyone who attended, yes it wasn't exciting, but yes it was important!

24th October, 2003

16th meeting: 7.00 PM.

We viewed the SIGGRAPH 2003 Video Show at the Widescreen Room, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne - complete with door prizes! Then a few of us went off to Lygon St for dinner. Easy!

Thanks must go to Dr Peter Morse, at the School of Creative Arts, for arranging the venue again.

27th August, 2003

15th meeting: 7.00 PM.

A group of us gathered down at the offices of Luminova in Bourke St, Melbourne. Paul Arden, their CTO then took us through examples of their current work, as well as directing a most illuminating discussion on things to do with illumination in general. All this at a company which has offices overseas but is actually based in Melbourne! We then finished with our AGM over munchies kindly provided by Luminova.

Thanks to Paul Arden for arranging this, as well as Hanh Chau for looking after the door.

28th May, 2003

14th meeting: 7.30 PM.

An enthusiastic crowd arrived at The Melbourne Museum for this meeting where we had an opportunity to see developments in the VROOM, the Virtual Reality Observatory of Melbourne, being installed and built at the Melbourne Museum, presented by Paul Bourke, Visualisation Research Fellow, Swinburne University Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing . Paul gave an informal overview of his current research into stereoscopic visualisation with the Melbourne Museum and Swinburne University. Issues ranged from technicalities of projection and software technologies to questions about content development and deployment - a animated discussion that gave much food for thought.

Thanks to Paul for arranging this at such short notice, and to the Museum and VROOM for making it possible: interesting stuff!

27th March, 2003

13th meeting: 7.30 PM. The Interactive Information Institute, The RMIT.

The topic of the meeting was Ecstasis, which had recently premiered at GRAPHITE 2003 by Metraform. Several members of the group were able to experience the work first hand, in addition to the members of Metraform making answering questions and discussing the work in general. They even provided wine and bickies!

A very big thank you to everyone at Metraform and III for making the time available to us.

13th February, 2003 7.30pm

Chapter Member Event: GRAPHITE 2003 Conference Dinner.

A number of members unable to attend the GRAPHITE 2003 conference attended the conference dinner and met with conference delegates and speakers. One day we may even have some photos!

12th February, 2003 6.30pm

Chapter Member Event: Screening of GRAPHITE 2003 Electronic Theatre.

Free member admission to the electronic theatre screening for GRAPHITE 2003 and a HDTV screening of The Story of Computer Graphics.

12th February, 2003 9.00am

Chapter Member Event: Opening of GRAPHITE 2003.

Free member admission to the opening, featuring the launch of Game Plan: Game On by the Minister for Information and Communication Technology, Marsha Thomson, and Mark Billignhurst's Keynote Address.

6th November, 2002

12th meeting: 7.30 PM at the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.

"Romantic Horizons"

A very informal and broad-ranging presentation by Peter Morse (New Media, SCA, UoM) introducing the opensource 3D animation software Blender, including the Blender Game Engine. He also gave an overview of a range of terrain generating and mapping software that is freely available on the internet, including (near)realtime terrain generation and how this "might" (fingers crossed) interface with the Blender Game Engine and 3D browser plug-in. All things eventually being right, this ran under Linux and Windoze, after much cursing and stamping (in a Mac-only environment and sweaty under-air-conditioned lab): but it all ran smoothly during the presentation and informal Q & A session.

There was quite a bit of interest in all this stuff from a variety of attendees (thanks to all who came), and a request for URLs:

Blender (now Opensource!): http://www.blender.org and Blender History: http://www.blender3d.com

Terragen (Terrain Generation - soon for MacOSX): http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/

WorldMachine (interesting procedural Terrain Generation): http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/world/

Virtual Terrain Project (opensource & lots of good links): http://vterrain.org/index.html

Aeliom (nice graphics, terrain and directional sound, using OpenGL/DirectX): http://www.iluac.com/aeliom/

World Construction Set & Visual Nature Tools (very expensive, but there's a demo): http://www.3dnature.com/

Python (programming Language): http://www.python.org/

and for the Mac person: http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html

The amazing Quicklook Swathe Browser (requires Java Run-Time in Netscape 4.77 or thereabouts - no IE, Mozilla etc.): http://ceocat.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/quicklook/quicklook.html

Finally: for some remote sensing data: http://www.spaceimaging.com for stuff from the IKONOS satellite. Very interesting.

19th September, 2002

11th meeting: 7.30 PM at the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.

As this was our first post-SIGGRAPH 2002 meeting we spent the meeting watching the 2002 Electronic Theatre, before heading off to Lygon St. Simple, straightforward, fun.

Thanks must go to Dr Peter Morse, at the School of Creative Arts, for arranging the venue and to Steve Agland for lending us a tape of his work Bin Can Can.

11th July, 2002

10th meeting at:

Dept of Computer Science
RMIT University,
Swanston St, Melbourne.

Further discussions on the upcoming GRAPHITE conference in February, 2003, followed by a brief outline of what was going on at RMIT and some real time interactive graphics based collaborative activities (read playing "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" on a network of Red Hat Linux machines), with a few quiet ones at the Oxford Hotel across the road. Thanks much go to Geoff Leach and Nigel Stewart for helping make the facilities available to us.

16th May, 2002

9th meeting at:

The CAEV: Collaboratory for Architectural and Environmental Visualisation, Dept. of Architecture. Architecture, Building & Planning Building, Univesity of Melbourne.

Where we watched a range of architectural and student projects, using both single and multi-projector technology, before the usual Lygon St debriefing. Thanks must go to Bharat Dave for organising the venue and the content.

You can find further info on the CAEV at http://www.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/~bdave/caev/home.htm. Architecture also have projects in 3D Visualisation, Interactive media, Reconstructions, Panoramic display, and VRML

26th March, 2002

Melbourne ACM SIGGRAPH Social event. In conjunction with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and Multimedia Victoria there was a reception held at MMV for the visiting ACM SIGGRAPH delegation on the 46th Floor, 55 Collins St, Melbourne. Much fun was had by all!

Thanks for this must go to Dr Peter Morse and Alessio Cavallaro for their work in organising it, and to Infogrames - Melbourne House, I-Cubed and the University of Melbourne Computer Visualisation Facility for providing financial sponsorship.

1st March, 2002

We're officially incorporated! Finally.

Thanks must go to David Philpot for dealing with the paper work on this one.

27th February, 2002

Eighth meeting: 8.00 PM at the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.

A discussion of the up coming SIGGRAPH visit, and then settling back to watch more content - actually far too settled, and far too much content! This meeting went so long that we had to skip the Lygon St section as we ended up finishing late.

Thanks once again to Dr Peter Morse for organising the venue.

18th February, 2002

ACM SIGGRAPH to visit Melbourne

Judy Brown, President of ACM SIGGRAPH, Alan Chalmers, Vice-president ACM SIGGRAPH and David Arnold, ACM Chair of Membership Activities are visiting Melbourne on the 26th and 27th of March, basically, to see what we are up to. As part of this visit we are having a social event on the evening of the 26th of March to allow them to meet people in all areas of computer graphics working in Melbourne, see what we are up to and find out what is going on. Apart from that it also provides us with an excuse to get together and party! Anyway, further details of the event will be made available later, but in order for us to get a better idea of the numbers this is a RSVP event. If you wish to reserve a place now, and take advantage of some of the publicity opportunities this event offers, you can find the RSVP form here.

11th December, 2001

Our first official General Meeting

Following a demonstration of some more of the impressive work that is being done at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute by Drew Berry we voted on the statement of purpose and the bylaws. Both of these were accepted (over pizza and red wine!) and we are now finalising the chapter's incorporation.

The minutes for the meeting are available here

Thanks to everyone who attended and took the time to read the bylaws, and special thanks to Drew Berry for giving us another chance to see his work, and to Dr Peter Morse for organising the venue.

4th October, 2001

Sixth meeting: 8.00 PM at the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.

As this was our first post-SIGGRAPH 2001 meeting and our first meeting as an official chapter, we spent the meeting watching the 2001 Electronic Theatre, before heading off to Lygon St. Simple, straightforward, fun.

Thanks must go to Dr Peter Morse, at the School of Creative Arts, for arranging the venue again. I'd also like to express my appreciation at everyone who helped make this our best attended meeting to date. Stay in touch, things are just beginning.

8th September, 2001

We're official! We have now received official notification from ACM SIGGRAPH that we are a recognised chapter. Thanks to everyone who assisted with this, especially Scott Lang (ACM SIGGRAPH Chair of Start-Ups Sub-committee), and Fran Sinhart (ACM Professional Chapters).

21st June, 2001

Fifth meeting: 8.00 PM at the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.

This time we received an historical perspective on things with a viewing of the SIGGRAPH film The Story of Computer Graphics which provided a look at some of the more interesting things that happened in the evolution of the area. We then got a more current perspective by heading up to Lygon St!

Thanks must again go to Dr Peter Morse, at the School of Creative Arts, for arranging the venue, and to Viveka Weiley of the Sydney SIGGRAPH chapter for making the viewing possible.

18th April, 2001

Fourth meeting: 8.00 PM at the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.

This time I'm pleased to say we had two items of local content. Dr Peter Morse showed part of his video "Liminal" the story behind which was easily as interesting as the video itself and, introducing an element of scientific visualisation, Drew Berry from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research showed some of the showreels that are on their web site. After that we watched a bit more imported footage before viewing some highlights of interesting (and amusing!) animations/presentations that people have found on the web - they look so much better on the big screen! After that we adjourned with some making their way to Lygon St for food and drink.

A very big thank you to Dr Peter Morse, at the School of Creative Arts, for arranging the venue again.

Chartering is still in progress...

20th February, 2001

Third meeting 8.00 PM at the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.

As this was the first meeting of the year it was pretty straight forward, a quick look at how the chartering is going - it's in progress, the only difficulty at this stage being that the ACM has to get its head around Victorian incorporation law (I know how they feel). Watched some more video work, and then headed up to Lygon street to continue the discussion over coffee and pizza.

A very big thank you to Dr Peter Morse, at the School of Creative Arts, for arranging the venue again.

15th November, 2000

Second meeting 8.00 PM at the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.

We had a guest visitor, Ray Corbett, Manager - Training and Educational Services, Side Effects Software Inc. Ray ran through the student and professional demo reels for Houdini as well as providing a brief description of what was done and answering peoples' questions. We then watched a few other bits of video work before heading off to Lygon street for coffee and further discussion.

Many thanks to Ray for giving us his time, and a very big thank you to Dr Peter Morse, at the School of Creative Arts, for making this possible.

24th October, 2000

Our first meeting was held.

The interim executive is:

We also set membership fees at:

Immediate tasks that came up: