Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2015

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    GKS-94 to SVG: Some Reflections on the Evolution of Standards for 2D Graphics
    (The Eurographics Association, 2015) Duce, David A.; Hopgood, F.R.A.; Rita Borgo and Cagatay Turkay
    Activities to define international standards for computer graphics, in particular through ISO/IEC, started in the 1970s. The advent of the World Wide Web has brought new requirements and opportunities for standardization and now a variety of bodies including ISO/IEC and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) promulgate standards in this space. This paper takes a historical look at one of the early ISO/IEC standards for 2D graphics, the Graphical Kernel System (GKS) and compares key concepts and approaches in this standard (as revised in 1994) with concepts and approaches in the W3C Recommendation for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). The paper reflects on successes as well as lost opportunities.
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    Using Sketching to Control Heterogeneous Groups
    (The Eurographics Association, 2015) Allen, Thomas; Parvanov, Aleksandar; Knight, Sam; Maddock, Steve; Rita Borgo and Cagatay Turkay
    The basic methods of interaction in strategy games with regards to controlling groups of units has largely remained the same since the first strategy games were released. Although the control systems in games today are effective and intuitive, they are somewhat limiting for the user in terms of achieving more complex goals. Recently, there has been research into using sketch-based systems as an alternate means of controlling a crowd, granting a higher level of control to the user while maintaining an easy to use and intuitive interface. So far, however, this has only been implemented for homogeneous groups. This paper describes the implementation of a sketch-based crowd control system for strategy games, which allows the user to exert a greater level of control over their armies by giving them the ability to control heterogeneous groups by using sub-group sketching to distinguish formations and paths for groups and sub-groups to adhere to.