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Instructions for using the Visual Proceedings CD-ROM
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This CD-ROM set contains the electronic version of the SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings.
"Inline" audio and video clips complement this linked version of the print proceedings.
To the first-time user it may not be clear how to exploit all of the features of the
Acrobat documents, so we include here a few straightforward instructions and explanations.
1. Directories, files, chapters and sections
Each directory (folder) on the disk reflects a section of the Visual Proceedings
devoted to one of the creative programs: the Bridge, the Digital Bayou, the
Computer Animation Festival, Applications and Sketches.
In each directory you will find a file named "TOC.PDF",
which contains the table of contents for that section. The Table of Contents
is fully linked to all the pieces listed therein; clicking on an entry will open the
appropriate file at the appropriate page. Alternately, each file contains a listing, or
set of "bookmarks", which link to the individual pages in that file. The bookmarks
can be displayed by selecting the bookmark icon in the Acrobat Reader title bar.
2. Hyperlinks
Every email address and URL (World Wide Web address) in the documents is an active
link to that URL. These links are not so indicated with any border or other cue.
You must configure your copy of Acrobat to know which WWW browser
to use.
3. Inline Movies and External Viewers
Windows and Macintosh platforms
If you are reading these CD-ROM documents on a Windows or Mac, then you can view all the
provided movies "inline". Whenever a movie is included in a page a movie projector icon
will be visible. The projector icon "points" to an image on the page, which is where the
inline movie will play. Notice that when you move your cursor over that image it
changes into a filmstrip to indicate that a movie is embedded here. Clicking on the
image will cause the movie to start playing. When it is finished you can replay it,
step through it slowly or quickly, or quit. Hitting the ESC key will quit the movie.
UNIX platforms
UNIX does not provide support for inline movie playing. However, you can still view
the movie while you are reading the page by launching the external viewer xanim
provided with this CD-ROM set. (Check the installation and configuration instructions
on setting up xanim and your MIME types included with the xanim tools). If you are on
a UNIX machine, and indeed if you are on any machine which understands the mapping
of MIME types to applications, you launch the external movie viewer by clicking on the
same projector icon button beside the inline movie. The projector icon/button says
"Unix/External" underneath it.
Movie Types
Movies are provided in two formats: Cinepak-compressed QuickTime, which are the
versions linked into the documents themselves, and MPEG. MPEG versions are supplied
simply as data files and must be viewed separately with an external viewer.
4. Supplemental Files
Where supplemental files of relevance to the particular venue have been provided
they have been installed in a subdirectory of the program directory called
"SUPPLEMNT". A notable example is the time-limited VRML browser in the
Digital Bayou section.