Introduction This CD-ROM publication contains electronic versions of papers presented at the SIGGRAPH 2001 conference, held in Los Angeles, California, 12-17 August 2001. CD-ROM Organization The following folders and files appear at the top level of this CD-ROM. Many presentations have supplemental material. A folder called "suppmtl" will be stored in the same folder as the paper, if supplemental material is present. Folder/File Name Description ---------------- ---------------------------------- awards Folder containing material pertaining to the Computer Graphics Achievement Award and the Outstanding Service Award. papers Folder containing presented material in Adobe Acrobat PDF, HTML, QuickTime, MPEG, and other file formats. Material is organized by the last name of the primary author of each paper. contents.html HTML document containing a table of contents of the content on this CD-ROM, with links to the material. contents.pdf Adobe Acrobat PDF document containing a table of contents of the content on this CD-ROM, with links to the material. copyright.pdf ACM Copyright Notice, Adobe Acrobat format. readme.mac This file, in Macintosh-formatted ASCII. readme.txt This file, in DOS-formatted ASCII. readme.unx This file, in UNIX-formatted ASCII. pnav Folder containing HTML navigation files. technical_images Selected technical images. Adobe Acrobat Reader Software Adobe Acrobat Reader software for many platforms is available from Adobe's Web site at . Support If you have questions regarding the operation or content of this CD-ROM publication, please contact Stephen Spencer, ACM SIGGRAPH Director for Publications, by e-mail at "spencer@siggraph.org". Corrections or solutions to problems encountered by users will be available on the SIGGRAPH World Wide Web site in the Publications section. Acknowledgements CD-ROM Production Stephen Spencer (The University of Washington) CD-ROM Testing Scott King (The Ohio State University) Joe Lohmar (Walt Disney Feature Animation) Lawson Wade (Ryan International Corporation) Nicholas Yue (Supersoftware Pty. Ltd.) Copyright Notice Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Notice to Past Authors of ACM-Published Articles ACM intends to create a complete electronic archive of all articles and/or other material previously published by ACM. If you have written a work that was previously published by ACM in any journal or conference proceedings prior to 1978, or any SIG newsletter at any time, and you do not want this work to appear in the ACM Digital Library, please inform us by e-mail at "permissions@acm.org", stating the title of the work, the author(s), and where and when published. If you have any questions regarding this statement, please contact us by e-mail at "permissions@acm.org" as well.