Imaging and graphics business team addresses opportunities for standardization
George S. Carson, Paul ten Hagen · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics · 1998
Imaging and Graphics Business Team Addresses Opportunities for StandardizationThe preceding Standards Pipeline (Computer Graphics 32(3) August 1998) introduced you to the Imaging and Graphics Business Team (IGBT) formed byJointTechnical Committee I of ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, and IEC, the International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC JTC I).The purpose of the business team is to identify opportunities for creating new international standards by working with business, governmerit, public sector organizations, graphics and imaging experts, as well as developers of standards outside of ISO and IEC.For more information, please Feel free to consult the team's Web site at: http://www.globalcollabora.tion.org/jtcIlilbtd.The IGBT has formed four working groups to address opportunities for standardization in the following areas'.• New interaction • Synthetic environments • Informatian archiving and distribution • Fundamental objects This month's Standards Pipeline describes the first two of these areas of potential standardization.The first, interaction, is described in a contribution written by Dr. Paul ten Hagen of CWI which was submitted co the IGBT as a starting point for the New Interaction Working Group.Discussion of the second area addresses the need for standard representations or natural or artificial environments, particularly from those in the simulation and modeling, entertainment and instruction/training fields.Such representations' components are located in reference to a well-defined spatial origin and coordinate system. Towards an IT Standard for Interaction