From: toby@cs.man.ac.uk (Toby Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.pex,uk.events,comp.graphics,comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Tutorials
Date: 5 Oct 92 17:22:13 GMT
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Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester


EUROGRAPHICS UK Autumn 1992 Tutorial Programme
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     "INTRODUCTION TO MOTIF"
      John Wexler and Bob McGonigle
      Wednesday 28 October, at the University of York.
 
      "COLOUR PERCEPTION, MODELLING AND DISPLAY"
      Lindsay Macdonald
      Friday 20 November 1992, at Cosenor's House, Abingdon, Oxford.
 
Details of each tutorial are given below.
 
The fee for each tutorial is 75 pounds for EUROGRAPHICS members, and 95
pounds for non-members. This fee includes lunch, refreshments and tutorial
notes. To make your booking please contact:
 
   Roy Platon
   Central Computing Division
   Atlas Centre
   Rutherford Appleton Lab
   Chilton
   Didcot
   OX11 0QX
 
   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! ********
 
Tutorial details
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1. INTRODUCTION TO MOTIF (John Wexler and Bob McGonigle)
 
This tutorial is a technical course, based on courseware developed at the
Computing Services of the University of Edinburgh, in conjunction with IXI
Ltd of Cambridge.  The tutorial is aimed at people who will program or port
applications to use Motif and X, or people who need to know how to do that
even if they will not be doing it themselves.  The prerequisites for the
course are familiarity with Unix, C programming and user experience of a
WIMP interface.
 
The tutorial will introduce the basic Motif concepts, and will describe the
details of callbacks and resources.  Basic widgets, such as MainWindow and
ScrolledList, and the use of PulldownMenus, will be covered.  A guide to
using the Motif documentation will also be given.  A practical to
illustrate these basic concepts will be run.  This is the first of two
Motif tutorials in the Eurographics programme. The second tutorial, BEYOND
THE MOTIF BASICS, will be held in early 1993, and will continue from the
first, covering further widgets, and mechanisms such as actions and
translations.
 
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".
 
DATE AND VENUE: Wednesday 28 October, at the University of York.
 
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2. COLOUR PERCEPTION, MODELLING AND DISPLAY (Lindsay Macdonald)
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This tutorial will cover both theoretical and practical aspects of the
perception and use of colour in computer graphics and imaging applications.
The morning sessions will provide an overview of how we see, organise and
model colour, with reference to recent research into colour appearance
modelling.  The afternoon sessions will deal with displays and printing
processes, with practical techniques for calibration and colour control,
plus guidelines for making the best use of colour for the presentation of
information in displays. The tutorial comprises four modules, as follows:
 
- Light, colour and human vision
- Colour appearance and modelling
- Reproduction of colour in display and print
- Guidelines for using colour effectively in displays
 
LINDSAY MACDONALD is a Senior Consultant at Crosfield Electronics Ltd., the
world's leading supplier of electronic pre-press systems for high quality
reproduction of images in print.  His interests lie in colour modelling,
computer graphics, image processing and user interface design and he is the
holder of 16 patents in these fields.  He was project manager of the
CARISMA research project in collaboration with Loughborough University,
supported by the DTI under the IEATP programme.  He is also a member of the
BSI committee shadowing the development of ISO 9241 on the Ergonomics of
Visual Display Terminals and was invited recently by the EC to serve as a
technical evaluator for proposals in Esprit III.  He is a member of both
BCS and IEE.
 
DATE AND VENUE: Friday 20 November 1992, at Cosenor's House, Abingdon, Oxford.
 
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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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