An Electronic CG&A: Computer Graphics Education

Abstract

IEEE CG&A will publish an extra issue on the World Wide Web in the coming months, consisting of computer graphics education topics originally planned for the May edition. The special electronic issue will fully utilize audio, video, animation, and other multimedia facilities of the Internet. We have exceptional special-issue editors, Scott Owen and Jose Encarnacao (recipient of the 1995 ACM Siggraph Steven Anson Coons Award), who have gathered a celebrated group of contributors. The editors selected electronic entries designed to provide a hands-on introduction to multimedia tools for education, not to simply repeat static, electronic copies of printed articles on the Web. All articles, like those of the printed publication, were peer reviewed. The special-issue authors all agreed to participate in this experiment, and for this we are very grateful. We are particularly excited about this topic and its aggressive use of multimedia features of the Internet. The editorial board chose this special issue on graphics education to experiment with multimedia publication because educational uses of the Web are widespread, and our printed magazine cannot represent them adequately. We expect this experiment to benefit the IEEE Computer Society at large. It also fits CG&A's legacy of incubating new graphics ideas, journals, and specialties. CG&A features technical contributions that help communicate ideas using graphics, pictures, and images the WWW is a communication tool we need to learn to use. The following abstracts of the planned electronic articles show you what's coming. We'll let you know as material is posted on our Web site. Then, we encourage you to get wired, log on, connect, and interact with the special multimedia WWW issue on graphics education. Meanwhile, check out the special features already posted on our Web sire at http ://www.computer.org/pubs/cg&a/cg&a.htm.