Greg Edwards (gedwards++at++cordoba.reading.sgi.com)
Tue, 1 Nov 94 18:55:49 GMT
With the approval of Alan Schaffer (moderator of this mail group) I am
announcing here the first UK Performer course.
We're running our first Performer course here at Theale, Reading, UK on
Nov 29 - Dec 2 (over 4 days). We have six firm bookings and the course
is very machine and resource intensive (Reality Engines, Reality
Centre, etc) so I'm only looking for a couple more at most on this
run. We'll mount additional courses asap for any extra and of course
schedule further courses routinely as part of UK Education. The
Performer course is becoming a sell-out in US, I guess since it
directly addresses a clear (and usually well-funded) application area.
The Performer course has been developed by David Marsland from numerous
source materials: Mike Jones' original & excellent in-house product
training, the Performer manuals, custom code and examples from the
Performer team, even industry Modelling/Vis-Sim info from the UK's Dave
Hughes (Reality Centre manager, ex-US Vis Sim AGD Marketing Manager).
It covers all of Performer at a component level, and assumes a good
prior knowledge of 3D graphics, but is essentially a "foundation"
course. You will not come out of it immediately ready to design a
full-scale commercial simulator; that requires Modelling / Terrain /
Vehicle Dynamics / Video / Audio / Motion Platform etc. input as well.
We plan to offer an Advanced Performer course to cover some of these
areas in future.
The visuals for the course will be colour Showcase on an LCD panel /
high-power OHP, with onscreen demos. Classroom equipment available will
include Indy, Indigo2, and Onyx Reality Engines.
The UK is also fortunate to have the Reality Centre, a superb Vis Sim
demo facility comprising several Onyx's (incl. one 3 pipe, one single
pipe with MCO) driving 3 giant screens in a seamless double-curved 160
degree wraparound configuration, with high-power audio, 1280x1024 or
VGA (and other) resolutions per screen, Bridge Of The Enterprise
style viewing gallery and control seats, etc.
The course will take advantage of the Reality Centre by allowing the
students to run their exercises in the RC at appropriate points.
(Thanks Dave). I've extended the standard material to provide a testbed
with all the firing up of the three screens, flybox (ie. the Captain
Kirk chair and joystick), three matched viewpoints with
overlapped/blended FOV's etc. taken care of, so the students can at
least fly a cube around a doughnut in glorious 160 degree Cinerama from
day one. We'll borrow models / terrains / vehicles / textures from the
RC (and Performer Friends CD) so (if time permits) they can have
something worth looking at by day four, although this may need to slip
to the Advanced course.
We will also have a deluxe demo of the latest Reality Centre material
(they have a growing list of fabulous demos) from the RC staff, with
hopefully added tutorial value by dropping back to wireframe, non-textured,
etc and demonstrating the design of some of the databases.
To book please contact our UK Training Administrator Brenda Sprigens
(brenda++at++reading.sgi.com, phone +44 734 257755, vmail +44 734 257501
then mailbox 7755#, fax +44 734 257553/257719). Technical queries,
contact me (Greg Edwards, gedwards++at++reading.sgi.com, phone +44 734
257740, vmail +44 734 257501 then mailbox 7740#).
Standard price is 950 UK pounds for 4 days. Purchase order needed to
confirm enrollment.
Thanks,
Greg Edwards,
SGI UK Training Manager.
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Greg Edwards, Training & Consultancy Group, Silicon Graphics UK Ltd.
1530 Arlington Business Park, Theale, Reading, UK, RG7 4SB.
switch +44 (0)734 257500, direct +44 (0)734 257740, fax +44 (0)734 257553
gedwards++at++reading.sgi.com, US vmail 59130, UK vmail 7740#, mailstop IUK-311
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