This CD-ROM version of the SIGGRAPH 94 conference proceedings is notable 
for the additional breadth its authors have provided.  In 1993 we had 
Acrobat papers, TIFF files, and a very few "goodies" such as QuickTime 
movies and source code.  This year we have a large number of movies in 
both QuickTime and MPEG format, we have source code for two different 
systems, and we have two papers that gave us html files so that a 
version of their paper can be read by Mosaic acting in local mode.  Most 
authors also gave us PostScript files with full color, so the electronic 
versions of their papers are a close reflection of the actual papers.

This year we have taken a different tack to the presentation of the 
Acrobat papers.  We have merged all the individual papers into a full 
"electronic proceedings" including covers and title page (although the 
title page has less resolution than the actual one, which may not be 
readable on smaller systems; the final title page is included 
separately).  The main effect of this merging is that we are able to use 
the Table of Contents and the Author Index to provide links into 
individual papers within the "book."  We hope you will browse the 
electronic proceedings and print off individual papers as you like.

We are pleased that we have an expanded set of Acrobat Readers for you 
this year.  Adobe has released readers for DOS and Solaris, and they are 
included on the disc.  For those of you who do not have systems that 
support Acrobat, however, we have the full PostScript files for each 
paper on the disc so you may print them as you like.

This disc has few top-level directories:  Procs, where the full 
Proceedings and title page are found; Papers, where there is a directory 
for each conference paper containing the PostScript file for that paper 
as well as whatever "goodies" the authors have provided; and Apps, where 
the Acrobat Readers and QuickTime players are found.  There is also a 
Table of Contents in the Papers directory that will help you associate 
each paper with the appropriate directory.

We hope you find this year's disc to be more useful than last year's, 
but we know that electronic publications still have a ways to go.  If 
you have comments, suggestions, or find errors, please send them to


Steve Cunningham
SIGGRAPH Director for Publications
Computer Science
California State University Stanislaus
Turlock, CA  95382
cunningham@siggraph.org

Thanks to a number of people who have helped:
* Stephen Spencer, for assistance with PostScript problems from 
  TeX-family files
* Steven R. Keith, for assistance with QuickTime movies
* Lou Katz and John Hart, for assistance with testing
* all the SIGGRAPH 94 authors for their willingness to provide the 
  necessary files

-- Steve Cunningham
    June, 1994