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- From: toby@cs.man.ac.UK (Toby Howard)
- Subject: New Eurogrphics UK Tutorials Programme
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:04:03 GMT
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- EUROGRAPHICS UK 1993 Tutorial Programme
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-
- "AN OVERVIEW OF PEX"
- Mike French
- Tuesday 16 February 1993, Kings College, Strand, London
-
- "BEYOND THE MOTIF BASICS"
- John Wexler
- Wednesday 17 March 1993, University of York.
-
- ******** HURRY! PLACES ARE STRICTLY LIMITED! BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW! ********
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- Tutorial details
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- 1. "AN OVERVIEW OF PEX (Mike French)
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-
- PEX, the 'PHIGS Extension to X' describes how to combine 3D computer
- graphics with 2D windowing standards in a heterogeneous network
- environment. PEX has been formulated by an industrial consortium and
- adopted by most leading computer vendors. At the heart of PEX is a network
- protocol specifying how 3D information is transferred between client and
- server. The application programmer is presented with a choice of
- client-side interfaces, including PHIGS and PHIGS PLUS International
- Standards.
-
- This tutorial will concentrate on the needs of the application programmer.
- Starting with summaries of X, PHIGS and PHIGS PLUS it will go on to cover:
- PEX architectures, X-PHIGS integration, PHIGS input, PEX-Motif integration,
- system evaluation, portability and interoperability, PEXlib and immediate
- mode interfaces. Familiarity with fundamental computer graphics concepts
- is expected, and some knowledge of X and/or PHIGS would be beneficial.
-
- MIKE FRENCH is a Graphics Application Engineer with Evans & Sutherland. He
- has extensive experience with PHIGS and PEX in a wide variety of
- application areas.
-
- DATE AND VENUE: Tuesday 16 February 1993, Kings College, Strand, London
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- 2. "BEYOND THE MOTIF BASICS" (John Wexler)
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-
- This tutorial builds on an earlier EG UK tutorial (held in October 1992)
- covering Motif Basics. Further widgets, such as Text, will be described.
- Container widgets, such as Form, will be detailed, together with their
- layout mechanisms. Mechanisms, such as methods, actions and translations,
- will also be included. A practical to illustrate these concepts will be
- run. Participants should have attended the first tutorial OR have a
- knowledge of basic Motif concepts, for example the details of callbacks and
- resources, basic widgets, such as MainWindow and ScrolledList and the use
- of PulldownMenus.
-
- JOHN WEXLER works at the Edinburgh Regional Computing Centre. His special
- interests are operating systems, concurrent systems, and software
- engineering. His is the author of "Concurrent Programming in occam 2".
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- DATE AND VENUE: Wednesday 17 March 1993, University of York.
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-
- ******** HURRY! PLACES ARE STRICTLY LIMITED! BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW! ********
-
- The fee for each tutorial is 80 pounds for EUROGRAPHICS members, and 100
- pounds for non-members. This fee includes lunch, refreshments and tutorial
- notes. To make your booking please contact:
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- Roy Platon
- Central Computing Division
- Atlas Centre
- Rutherford Appleton Lab
- Chilton
- Didcot
- OX11 0QX
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- Tel: 0(+44)235 445764 Fax: 0(+44)235 445808
- Email: rtp@uk.ac.rl.ib or tutorial@uk.co.eg-uk
-
- ******** HURRY! PLACES ARE STRICTLY LIMITED! BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW! ********
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- Toby Howard Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
- Lecturer Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom
- Tel: +44 61-275-6274
- toby@cs.man.ac.uk Fax: +44 61-275-6236
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