The workshop was hosted by Sydney University, VisLab.

Proceedings (3-4 December 2002):

Program - Day 1:

• 8:30 - Registration, refreshments.
• 9:00 - Welcome:
• 9:05 - Keynote: Greg McRae, MIT - Future Directions for Computing and Scientific Visualization -- Where we have been and where we could go"

Session 1 (9:45 - 11:05) Scientific Visualisation

• 9:45 Francis Clark,ACMC, UQld - Visualisation of microbial ecosystems.
• 10:05 Patrick Leung, VisLab & Physics, USyd - Determining the topology of magnetic fields in the Sun's corona.
• 10:25 Richard Albert, Geology & Geophysics, U Syd. - Computation & Visualization of Earth Processes via 3D Particle-in-cell Finite Element Analysis.
• 10:45 Nicole Bordes,VisLab, USyd.Isolation of Tumours and Blood Vessels in Human Liver..
• 11:05-11:30am - Morning tea; Registration continues

Session 2 (11:30am - 12:30pm) Computer Graphics

• 11:30 Stuart Ramsden, ANU.Computation & Visualization of Hyperbolic Tilings on Minimal Surfaces.
• 11:50 Abram Santilli, UWS - VideoCube: A High-Performance Graphics System for Clusters.
• 12:10 Dirk van der Knijff, U. Melb - Overview of the University of Melbourne Advanced Research Computing Computer Visualization Facility
• 12:30 Ben Simons, VisLab, USyd - Blinkenlights Animations, Berlin 2001, Paris 2002..
• 12:50 -2:00pm - light lunch (Room 321/322)

Session 3 (2:00 - 3:30pm) Virtual Reality & Environments

• 2:00 Matthew A Hutchins, CSIRO - Case Studies in Visualisation and Virtual Reality for Surgical Training.
• 2:20 Hugh Fisher, CS, ANU - Distributing 3D worlds over NFS.
• 2:40 Laz Kastanis, ACMC, UQld - Virtual Theatre Spaces.
• 3:00 Stephen Barrass, MIS - CSIRO.Tangible Stories.
• 3:20 - 3:45 pm - Afternoon tea

Session 4 (3:45 - 4:25pm) Information Visualisation

• 3:45 Kathryn Kasmarik, School of IT, USyd, - Foresighted Graph Layout in Software Visualisation.
• 4:05 Damian Merrick, School of IT, USyd, - Skeletal Animation for the Exploration of Graphs.

Visualisation Forum - APAC planning

• 4:25 moderated by G. McRae , B. Pailthorpe & J. O.callaghan. Questions, comments and directed discussion on Australian needs in Visualisation and Virtual Environments, to identify opportunities for community and APAC-2 planning.
• 4:55 - closing remarks.

• 5:00 - VisLab - 10-th anniversary dedication (VisLab-Physics, Rm 361)
• 6:00, for 6:30pm - Dinner at Women's College

Program - Day 2:

• 9:00 - coffee

Session 5 (9:30 - 10:50am) Scientific Visualisation, cont.d.

• 9:30 Rob Womersley, Maths, UNSW - Distributing points on a sphere.
• 9:50 Andrew Norton, Physics USyd - Visualizing particle spin in spacetime continua...
• 10:10 Damien Evans, Archaeological Computing Lab, USyd - Urban Form at Angkor from Radar Imaging.
• 10:30 Henry Gardiner, CS, ANU - Breaking the tyranny of the scenegraph.
• 10:50-11:20am - Morning tea

Session 6 (11:20am - 12:30) Visualisation hardware systems

• 11:20 Kelvin Cheng, Puolo & Eades, SIT, USyd.Direct - Interaction with Large-Scale Display Systems using Infrared Laser Tracking Devices..
• 11:40 Chris Willing,VisLab, USyd - P-Wall & Acccess Grid nodes.

Education & Culture

• 12:00 Pascal Vuylsteker, CS, ANU - The Internetworked Virtual Reality course at the ANU.
• 12:20 Alan Cholodenko, Art History, USyd - The Nutty Universe of Animation.
• 12:45 - Closing remarks
• 12:50 pm - light lunch and close (Room 321/322)