News from Peterson Lab News from Peterson Lab Peterson Lab, a UCit lab at DAAP, has been upgraded for fall quarter. This computer graphics oriented lab provides many useful software packages for both teaching and research. PhotoShop 5.5, an image processing software from Adobe, is the most recent addition to the PCs.
Autodesk products are up to date.
AutoCAD 2000 is available for design and draft and 3D Studio Max R3 for 3D modeling and animation. Lab hardware is also going through an upgrade, as new Dell XPS-T500 systems are replacing twenty older PCs. The new systems are equipped with Zip and CD ROM drives. In the near future, the ten older Macs will be replaced by Apple G4 systems. These will bring in DVD drives.