Project Scope

CSTB will assemble a group of approximately 25 people to conduct a 2-day exploratory planning meeting to identify compelling research needs in computer graphics, highlighting those that promise significant returns to due the scope, scale, or breadth of their potential applications. The planning meeting will examine research needs in both core areas of computer graphics (such as modeling and rendering) and in application areas such as defense, entertainment, medicine, manufacturing, and scientific visualization to identify those research areas that can be leveraged broadly. No written report will be generated and no consensus findings or recommendations will be sought. A study proposal will be developed.

The experts convened by CSTB will consider such questions as: (1) what is computer graphics? (2) what technical advances and research are required to enable computer graphics to serve a growing range of needs? (3) what unsolved problems remain within the field of computer graphics and are they being adequately addressed? (4) what new capabilities do advanced computing and communications provide that may drive computer graphics applications? (5) how can the most promising research issues be best addressed? (6) what are the complementary roles of industry, government, and universities in meeting future challenges? (7) what are the benefits of research in different areas of computer graphics?

Committee Members

More detailed participant biographies (154K PDF) are also available.

Staff

Cynthia Patterson, Program Officer (Study Director)
Janice Sabuda, Senior Project Assistant
Brandye Williams, Staff Assistant

Related Publications from Other CSTB Projects

Modeling and Simulation: Linking Entertainment and Defense (1997)
Evolving the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative to Support the Nation's Information Infrastructure (1995)

 Sponsors

SIGGRAPH