From: wolfgang@cs.yorku.ca (Wolfgang Stuerzlinger)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:08:47 -0500 (EST)
Subject: CFP: jgt - Special Issue on Hardware-Accelerated Rendering
echniques

                        journal of graphics tools
                                A K Peters

                             Call for Papers:
                Special Issue on Hardware-Accelerated
                         Rendering Techniques

                    Submission deadline: May 1, 2002

                         http://www.acm.org/jgt 

Editors: 
    Wolfgang Heidrich (Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver)
    Wolfgang Stuerzlinger (York University, Toronto) 

Purpose: 

Real-time rendering systems are approaching a level of quality and economy
that surpasses even the most elaborate offline rendering systems of only
ten years ago. This has provided great impetus to applications of real-time
rendering for a wide range of fields, including computer games, modeling
and animation, design, and scientific visualization. 

The aim of this special issue is to provide state-of-the-art techniques used
to render images with good visual fidelity at high frame rates. One of the
challenges in this area is to transform traditional computer graphics
algorithms into a form that adapts to the restrictions dictated by graphics
hardware and takes advantage of their specific processing capabilities. The
special issue also targets OpenGL and DirectX tricks, clever applications of
pixel shaders, and so forth. 

Scope: 

We are seeking original, unpublished work on hardware-accelerated techniques,
including but not limited to the following areas: 
        real-time rendering 
        photorealistic shading and lighting 
        non-photorealistic rendering 
        volume rendering 

    The submissions may contribute to the field by presenting: 
        Original Techniques and Algorithms 
            New ways to solve real problems. 
            Methods that offer improvements over ones in common use. 
            Accelerated implementations of known algorithms. 
            Tricks & hacks. 
        Novel Research Ideas 
            Small, elegant, research results. 
            Simple good ideas. 
            An "aha!" insight that has a straightforward implementation. 

Important Dates: 
     Submission Deadline:
                         May 1st, 2002
     Notification:
                         July 1st, 2002
     Revised Manuscript Submission:
                         September 1st, 2002
     Revised Manuscript Notification:  
                         September 15th, 2002
     Publication:
                         First Quarter, 2003


Submission Guidelines: 

For the special issue the preferred paper length is four (4) pages to
encourage the submission of real-time rendering tricks & hacks. The text
should be in 10pt Times Roman, one column format. The content should occupy
an 4.4x6.5 in (11.3x16.6cm) area on each page. While jgt has no explicit
maximum paper length, we recommend keeping below 15 pages, as papers longer

than this are generally less likely to meet the requirements of simplicity
and clarity. 

All submissions should include a one- or two-paragraph abstract. Papers
should be submitted in electronic form as PDF file. Static images and
illustrations should be included as part of a manuscript. We do not accept
videotapes, but URLs for supplementary images, animations, demonstrations,
etc. are welcome and will be considered along with the submitted document. 

Submissions should be sent in electronic form per e-mail to the guest
editors. The e-mail must include the names and affiliations of all authors,
and full contact information for at least one author. Only PDF-files will
be accepted for the initial review process. Please note that for the final
printing process only LaTeX or Word files can be accepted. 

All submissions will be refereed by the guest editors with the help of
external reviewers according to the criteria of clarity and utility
discussed in the call for papers and codified in the referee's review form
of jgt. Submitted papers should describe original work that has not appeared
in any other peer-reviewed publication. Papers may not be submitted elsewhere
while under review by jgt. 

Editors' Addresses: 
     Wolfgang Heidrich
     Dept. of Computer Science
     The University of British Columbia
     2366 Main Mall
     Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4
     Canada
     Tel: +1 (604) 822-4326
     Fax: +1 (604) 822-8989
     http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~heidrich 
                               
     Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
     Dept. of Computer Science
     York University
     4700 Keele Street
     Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3
     Canada
     Tel: +1 (416) 736-2100 ext. 33947
     Fax: +1 (416) 736-5872
     http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~wolfgang 


About jgt: 

The journal of graphics tools is a quarterly journal whose primary mission
is to provide the computer graphics research, development, and production
community with practical ideas and techniques that solve real problems. We
aim to bridge the gap between new research ideas and their use as tools by
the computer graphics professional. 

There are several other journals in computer graphics which together provide
a good forum for introducing new and seminal research. However, rarely can
the ideas described in these journals be applied in practice without a great
deal of experimentation and experience. 

jgt provides a forum for the presentation of the useful techniques that
emerge as new research ideas mature. In addition, we provide a forum for
novel ideas and elegant research results that are perhaps too "small" for
the heavyweight research journals, but that are nonetheless of significant
use to practitioners. 

Document URLs: 
     This document: 
                     http://www.acm.org/jgt/notices/special02.html 
     jgt general call for papers: 
                     http://www.acm.org/jgt/cfp.html 
     jgt referee's review form: 
                     http://www.acm.org/jgt/review.html 
     jgt home page: 
                     http://www.acm.org/jgt