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We tried around midnight and again at 7:30am local--9:30am Eastern Daylight Time, and will try again after business hours on 4/4/95 ================================================== THE T E S S E L L A T I O N T I M E S #506 Issue #6 of 1995, for Monday, April 3rd ================================================== TESS is Columbine, Inc.'s weekly electronic publication usually posted Monday evenings to supplement 3D ARTIST magazine. 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This issue was assembled primarily by TESS Publisher Bill Allen. ________ CONTENTS 506.00 - Heads Up 506.00.01 - The Fortnight in 3D 506.00.02 - Price Cuts & Special Offers 506.00.03 - Product Upgrades 506.00.04 - Shows Soon 506.00.05 - Artists' Call Deadlines 506.01 - RenderMan for PowerPC 506.02 - 3D Online 506.03 - More News 506.03.01 - Bits & Pieces 506.03.02 - Graphics Publications 506.03.03 - User Groups 506.04 - Desktop 3D Tour Guide to NAB 506.05 - What's Up in Santa Fe 506.05.01 - TESS 506.05.02 - 3D ARTIST 506.06 - Contacts 506.00 - Heads Up Here's the stuff you need to know the soonest... 506.00.01 - The Fortnight in 3D April 5 in Waltham, Mass: CAD SIG of the Boston Computer Society meeting at 7pm in the BCS offices at 101A - 1st Ave. Adra Systems will do a presentation on the Cadra CAD/CAM product family for workstations and 32-bit PCs. For more about the BCS CAD SIG, see 506.03.03 below. April 6 in Los Angeles: AutoCAD r13 On the Road tour: $99 one-day class held by the AutoCAD Helpline (800/373-3284, fax 216/765-1703). April 10-13, NAB, Las Vegas: see 506.04 below. April 17 in Seattle: Open Studio "for artists and technologists" at Symbionics at 7:30pm in the Western Bldg., 619 Western Ave. Check with Bret Battey at 206/281-8639 to reserve time. Facilities include a "VCR, DAT player, cassette deck, synthesizers, mixers, a Mac, and an Internet feed." This is an activity of Northwest CyberArtists. 506.00.02 - Price Cuts & Special Offers NEW: Schreiber Instruments is selling an IPAS six-pack for half-price through 5/30/95: Lightning, Explode Volume, Particle Cloud, Rings, Comet, Starburst, all for $150. Through 4/15/95: See TESS#501.01.01 about Byte by Byte's competitive upgrade offer available for SoftF/X for Windows 3.1/95/NT. 506.00.03 - Product Upgrades Vibrant Graphics in a 3/17/95 news release received here 3/21/95 announced that it has supplied to Autodesk upgraded inline display drivers for 3D Studio. The drivers are for Number 9's Imagine 128, Leadtek's S230 and S400, Spea Mercury, and Matrox MGA Impression boards, and for G91 boards for Intergraph computers, as well as for boards based on the Cirrus Logic 543X chip, such as the Orchid Kelvin, STB Horizon Plus and Nitro, and Diamond Speedstar 64, and additional boards. Users can get the updated drivers from their Autodesk dealer, or download them from CompuServe or from the Vibrant BBS at 512/918-3411. 506.00.04 - Shows Soon The 1995 Computer Game Developers' Conference 4/22-25/95 at the Westin Hotel, Santa Clara, Calif. (415/856-4263), followed 4/26/95 by the Microsoft Win95 Game Development Forum at TechMart next to the Westin (we're trying to get a contact). The CGDC costs a lot to get into, but last year it sold out and we heard that artists were hired right off the floor. VR World 5/22-25, Convention Ctr., San Jose, Calif., sponsored by *VR World* and *CyberEdge Journal*, held by Mecklermedia, 800/632-5537; 203/226-6967, -6979 fax; vrconf@mecklermedia.com. 506.00.05 - Artists' Call Deadlines NEW: April 14th for "The Book of Icons and Other Digital Addictions," an international juried computer art exhibition to be held 5/6-26 at the Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Ctr. in Camden, N.J. Submit on floppy, 5.25" SyQuest, or 35mm slides, accepted work must be ready to hang, entry fee of $15 for two works of still computer images, digital photography, or computer mixed media. 20% commission on sales. Work will be considered for the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Send to the WWC Arts Ctr., 2nd & Cooper Sts., Camden, NJ 08102; 609/964-8300. NEW: June 1 for Autodesk's Siggraph '95 Demo Reel. Work must be signed over for nonexclusive but free and unlimited use, but this is one of the most important means for 3D Studio artists to get attention for their work. Submit on first-generation Betacam SP with field rendering on and no image artifacts, PAR to Beta SP OK, NTSC preferred. The demo reel will be divided into two parts, a montage by application (games, architecture, character animation, special effects, etc.) and an Electronic Festival for complete pieces with their own soundtracks. Send your tape(s) to the Autodesk Multimedia unit at 111 McInnis Pkwy., San Rafael, CA 94903, attention "Siggraph 95 Video." Fax inquiries to 415/507-5150. Note that this is a new address for Autodesk, which moved to new quarters earlier this year. April 13th for New Mexico-based artists for the "Binary Vision" juried exhibit for 2D and 3D computer art. Contact The Printmaker, 1807 - 2nd St. #40, Santa Fe, NM 87501; 505/425-9456. April 24th for the Electronic Cinema at the Int'l. Symposium on Electronic Art, Sept. 17-24, Montreal, Que., Canada. Call 514/990-0229, fax 514/842-7459, E-mail isea95@er.uqam.ca. April 26th for the Computer Animation Festival/Electronic Theatre at Siggraph 95 (Aug. 6-11, Los Angeles, Calif.) Contact: Frank Foster, 310/280-7603, or E-mail caf_et.s95@siggraph.org. 506.01 - RenderMan for PowerPC We just caught this one: Pixar announced in January the PowerPC version of their MacRenderMan product, claiming a 4.5 times speedup over 68K MacRenderMan on a Quadra 840AV. It comes on CD with Showplace 2.2 for $395, including Glimpse. 506.02 - 3D Online We got a message today 4/3/95 from Daniele Colajacomo that the 3DSite is now carrying TESS in its Literature, Reference section. http://www.lightside.com/~dani/ 3DSite (formerly 3D Web) is a WWW site dedicated to 3D CGI. 506.03 - More News 506.03.01 - Bits & Pieces The Northwest CyberArtists 4/95 newsletter says a TV show called "Sailing the Digital Sound" has begun on Thursdays at 1:30-2:20pm in the Seattle area on UW TV (ch. 27?). Contact the NWCA editor, Einar Ask, CIS 71774,640. In:sync, publisher of Razor Pro, has moved to 6106 MacArthur Blvd., Bethesda, MD 20816; 301/320-0220, -0335 fax, -0338 BBS Synthonics, Inc., publisher of 3DExpres, has moved to 31368 Via Colinas #106, Westlake Village, CA 91362; phones unchanged. 506.03.02 - Graphics Publications We've heard before but officially received notice 3/26/95 that *Computer Pictures* and 3/27/95 that *Amiga World* are suspending publication. Knowledge Industry Publications says it is shifting focus to push *Multimedia Producer*, a newcomer recently spun off from *CP*, and a new show, Electronic Entertainment Expo. Dale Strang's group within IPD that published *AW* also publishes *Digital Video* (previously *Desktop Video World*), and the *Planet Studio* 3D Studio newsletter. Another graphics publication recently bit the dust. *PCVR*, a US publication for low-end "garage" VR, handed its readership off to *VR News* in England . 506.03.03 - User Groups The Boston Computer Society CAD SIG now has a Web page: http://www.bcs.org/bcs/Groups/cad/group_cad.html Contact: Howard Cohen Their next meetings are tentatively planned for 5/10/95 and 6/8/95 (when Steve Mosher from Criterion is supposed to speak about using Renderware for VR). 506.04 - Desktop 3D Tour Guide to NAB Las Vegas 4/10-13 Shows this size can be overwhelming, so here's a must-see list to help you focus on what's important to desktop 3D people. (For anyone we missed, sorry. Please make sure we get your listing for Siggraph '95 and next year's NAB.) Booth - Exhibitor 1715 - Digimation with HSC & Positron 1818 - Immersion Corp. 11832 - DPS 11848 - Fast Forward 15168 - Elastic Reality 15171 - NewTek 15184 - Autodesk with developers 15779 - Viewpoint (in SGI booth) 16972 - Softimage 17280 - Ultimatte Corp. M 308 - Hash, Inc. M 801 - Caligari Corp. M1114 - Xaos Tools M1403 - Apple Computer, with Byte by Byte M1415 - Crystal Graphics M1609 - Adobe Systems M1220 - Elastic Reality S 203 - Fast Electronic S 233 - In:sync S 304 - Matrox 506.05 - What's Up in Santa Fe 506.05.01 - TESS News is light again this week and we're on the final push for getting 3D ARTIST #19 to press, so this is a short issue. Deadline for TESS#507 is 1pm Mountain Time Friday 4/7/95 for broadcast over the weekend. We resume our regular Monday 1pm MDT (3pm New York time) deadline on 4/17/95 for TESS#508. 506.05.02 - 3D ARTIST Editorial and space deadline for 3DA#20 is 4/18/95. The issue focus will be hardware for 3D graphics, stereo viewing, probably a lot of 3DS IPAS stuff and the radiosity articles originally planned for 3DA#19. 3DA#21 will have as its focus 3D medical illustration, and we're looking for related articles. 506.06 - Contacts The following companies have products mentioned in this issue of *The Tessellation Times*. When you contact companies, please BE SURE to say you heard about them from TESS. > Autodesk, Inc.; 111 McInnis Pkwy., San Rafael, CA 94903; 800/879-4233; 415/507-5000, 491-8311 fax; autodesk.com > Byte by Byte Corp.; 8920 Business Park Dr. #330, Austin, TX 78759; 512/795-0150, -0021 fax; bytebybyte.com; http://bytebybyte.com >Schreiber Instruments, Inc.; 4800 Happy Canyon Rd. #250, Denver, CO 80237; 800/252-1024; 303/759-1024, -0928 fax, -3598 BBS; corp@schreiber.com __________________ 3D ARTIST magazine If you haven't seen 3D ARTIST and can't find it on a newsstand or through your local user group, E-mail your snail mail address to t3.info@3dartist.com for a sample issue in North America. Elsewhere, we send an info kit including sample pages. [end]