What is GCCG ?


GCCG has its roots in Siggraph 93, where three PhD students in North America, Marcelo Walter, João Comba and Cláudio Silva wrote a report about the proceedings of that year. This report was sent to the list SBC-GRAF, which is the official mailing list for the Computer Graphics chapter in the Brazilian Computer Society. The report was also made availabe through anonymous ftp. The goal was to use the report as a resource of information, easily acessed to students and researchers in CG in Brazil, since it is well known the difficulty to get acess to recent proceedings of this important conference.

In 1994, with two more members, Marcelo Zuffo and Alexandre Cunha (both PhD Students), another report was released, now about the Siggraph 94 proceedings. In 1995, another member joined GCCG, Rui Bastos, and a partial report to Siggraph 95 was made.

Increasing the information flow of Computer Graphics in Brazil is the main goal of GCCG. It's our intention to announce events, collect oppinions, relate facts, write book reports, discuss software and hardware, point interesting technical reports or articles, present groups in Computer Graphics around the world, discuss ideas, etc. In summary, we want to create a space to enable better and faster access to information related to CG.

Initially, the SBC-GRAF mailing list would be used to transport GCCG-related information, as most of the people interested in CG in Brazil subscribe to this list. Today, we keep a web page to contain these information.

Therefore, originally containing students from north to south of Brazil, GCCG is not related with any society (neither in Brazil nor abroad). It's a group that was born from the desire of some PhD students, which dedicate part of their time in the name of a cause that deserves such effort.

Rui Bastos (bastos@cs.unc.edu)
João Comba(comba@cs.stanford.edu)
Alexandre Cunha (cunha@andrew.cmu.edu)
Claudio Silva (claudio@cs.sunysb.edu)
Marcelo Walter (marcelow@cs.ubc.ca)
Marcelo Zuffo (mkzuffo@lsi.usp.br)

Email: comba@cs.stanford.edu