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    In Memoriam: Juergen Schoenhut
    (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2006) Duce, David
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    SVG Primer
    (Eurographics Association, 2001) Duce, David
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    EG: Membership 2024 CONFIDENTIAL
    (2024-04-19) Duce, David
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    Web 2D Graphics: State-of-the-Art
    (Eurographics Association, 2001) Duce, David; Herman, Ivan; Hopgood, Bob
    The early browsers for the Web were predominantly aimed at retrieval of textual information. Tim Berners-Lee's original browser for the NeXT computer did allow images to be viewed but they popped up in a separate window and were not an integral part of the Web page. In January 1993, the Mosaic browser was released by NCSA. The browser was simple to download and, by the Autumn of 1993, was available for X workstations, PCs and the Mac. From 50 Web servers at the start of 1993, Web traffic had risen to 1% of internet traffic by October and 2.5% by the end of the year. About a million downloads of the Mosaic browser took place that year. In February of 1993, Mark Andreessen proposed the element as an extension to Mosaic's HTML to provide a way of adding images to Web pages. In 1994, Dave Raggett developed an X-browser that allowed text to flow around images and tables and from then on images were an accepted part of the Web page. Web pages became glossier and the enormous growth of the Web started [1] [2]. Organisations could customise their home pages with the company logo. Maps, albeit images, could be added to show how to reach the organisation. Its products could be displayed on the Web. Eventually, the Web would become a major commercial outlet.
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    The John Lansdown Award 2006
    (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006) Duce, David
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    Distributed and Collaborative Visualization
    (Eurographics Association, 2003) Brodlie, Ken; Duce, David; Gallop, Julian; Walton, Jeremy; Wood, Jason
    Visualization is widely used in science, medicine and engineering. It can convey insight into phenomena that are well-understood, or display new data in order to uncover novel patterns of meaning. Visualization is a powerful tool in presentations (lectures, seminars, papers etc) and in discussions between colleagues. As such, it is an essentially collaborative activity. In this area, there is also a growth in the use of video conferencing to facilitate meetings between participants in geographically separate locations. This includes both specialized facilities (video conference rooms including Access Grid) and desktop video conferencing using the Internet and multicast communications. Distributed visualization addresses a number of resource allocation problems, including the location of processing close to data for the minimisation of data traffic. The advent of the Grid Computing paradigm and the link to Web Services provides fresh challenges and opportunities for distributed visualization - including the close coupling of simulations and visualizations in a steering environment. Distributed collaborative visualization aims to enhance the video conferencing environment (usually on the desktop) with access to visualization facilities. At the most basic level, pre-generated visualizations may be shared through a shared whiteboard tool. Richer approaches enable users to share control of the visualization method and its parameters. In one approach, a single visualization application is shared amongst a group of users; in another approach, the visualization dataflow paradigm is extended in order to allow sharing of visualization data between collaborators. Component middleware provides a framework for describing and assembling distributed collaborative visualization applications. The AccessGrid allows group-group collaboration, rather than just person-person, and generally offers a rich environment for collaboration - we look at ways of integrating current visualization systems into this new type of environment. XML has made a significant impact in many areas of computing, from e-business to mathematics. It is being increasingly used as the middle tier of client-server interfaces where its power and flexibility makes it ideal for middleware (for example, SOAP and related Web Services developments in W3C). Current developments in Grid middleware are based on an enhancement to Web Services (the Open Grid Services Architecture - OGSA). This STAR reviews the state of the art in these areas, draws out common threads in these diverse approaches and looks at strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for further development in this field.
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    Carla Vandoni - A Remarkable Lady
    (Blackwell Publishers Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 2000) Duce, David
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    Eurographics 2003
    (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2004) Duce, David; Torres, Juan Carlos