Computer-Generated Images: The State of the Art Proceedings of Graphics Interface '85 (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

1 Image Synthesis.- Image Synthesis: Optical Identity or Pictorial Communication.- A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Coherent Ray-Tracing.- High Level Descriptions for 3D Stochastic Models.- Frame Buffer Algorithms for Stochastic Models.- Animating Lights and Shadows.- An Analysis and Algorithm for Filling Propagation.- 2 Image Processing.- Non-Rigid Body Motion.- Selection of Segment Similarity Measures for Hierarchical Picture Segmentation.- Computer Analysis of Cardiac Wall Motion Asynchrony.- Multi-Robot Assembly of IC's.- A Computerized System for Spot Detection and Analysis of Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis Images.- Hologram-like Transmission of Pictures.- 3 Geometric Modelling.- CSG and Ray Tracing Using Functional Primitives.- Geometric Continuity with Interpolating Bezier Curves.- An Intuitive Approach to Geometric Continuity for Parametric Curves and Surfaces.- Octree Data Structures and Creation by Stacking.- 4 Computer Animation.- ANIMENGINE: An Engineering Animation System.- Dynamics for Animation of Characters with Deformable Surfaces.- Using Dynamic Analysis to Animate Articulated Bodies such as Humans and Robots.- Towards an Integrated View of 3-D Computer Animation.- Controlling Evolution and Motion Using the CINEMIRA-2 Animation Sublanguage.- Computer Animation in Distance Teaching.- 5 User Interface.- The Interactive Planning Work Station: A Graphics-Based UNIX Tool for Application Users and Developers.- The Higgens UIMS and its Efficient Implementation of Undo.- Graphics Interaction in Databases.- Interface Abstractions for an naplps Page Creation System.- Colour Coding Scales and Computer Graphics.- 6 CAD/CAM.- An Innovative User Interface for Microcomputer-Based Computer-Aided Design.- A Geometric Modeller for Turbomachinery Applications.- Low Cost Geometric Modelling System for CAM.- The CADME Approach to the Interface of Solid Modellers.- 7 Artificial Intelligence.- Generative Design in Architecture Using an Expert System.- Knowledge Engineering Application in Image Processing.- Heuristic Rules for Visualization.- 8 Applications.- Computer Graphics for Multivariate Data.- A Graphics Interface for Interactive Simulation of Packet-Switched Networks.- Design and Implementation of an Interactive Route Editor.- Business Graphics and the Stakeholder Approach: An Exploratory Field Experiment.- An Integrated System for Printing and Publishing Applications.- Project Management Using Graphics.- 9 Geographic Information and Databases.- How Map Designers can Represent their Ideas in Thematic Maps: Effective User Interfaces for Thematic Map Design.- Challenges in the Application of Graphics Technology to the Management of Geographic Information.- An Image Management Kernel for the Design of Relational and Pictorial Data Bases.- The Scientific and Technical Issues in Integrating Remotely Sensed Imagery with Geocoded Data Bases.- Author Index.