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There are many multiple‐stage racing competitions in various sports such as swimming, running, or cycling. The wide availability of affordable tracking devices facilitates monitoring the position along with the race of all participants, even for non‐professional contests. Getting real‐time information of contenders is useful but also unleashes the possibility of creating more complex visualization systems that ease the understanding of the behavior of all participants during a simple stage or throughout the whole competition. In this paper we focus on bicycle races, which are highly popular, especially in Europe, being the Tour de France its greatest exponent. Current visualizations from TV broadcasting or real‐time tracking websites are useful to understand the current stage status, up to a certain extent. Unfortunately, still no current system exists that visualizes a whole multi‐stage contest in such a way that users can interactively explore the relevant events of a single stage (e.g. breakaways, groups, virtual leadership...), as well as the full competition. In this paper, we present an interactive system that is useful both for aficionados and professionals to visually analyze the development of multi‐stage cycling competitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights the Fourth European Association for Computer Graphics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualisation held on September 9-10, 2002 in Blaubeuren, Germany. Topics discussed; Speakers.

Discusses the Eurographics Awards Programme that recognizes and promotes computer graphics research in Europe. Founding members of the awards committee established by Eurographics; Awards given by Eurographics; Career and educational background of Claude Puech, recipient of the Distinguished Career Award in 2004.

Eurographics and Computer Graphics forum offer a variety of services on the international networks. You can find details of our latest events, how to prepare a paper for the conference or for the journal and much more besides. This information can be accessed mainly through the EG website but we also offer some support for ftp and mail server access. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents information on the European Association for Computer Graphics (EUROGRAPHICS). Benefits for EUROGRAPHICS members; Services offered by the EUROGRAPHICS and Computer Graphics forum.

Presents information on the European Association for Computer Graphics (EUROGRAPHICS). Benefits for EUROGRAPHICS members; Services of the EUROGRAPHICS and Computer Graphics forum.

Presents information on the European Association for Computer Graphics (EUROGRAPHICS). Benefits for EUROGRAPHICS members; Services of EUROGRAPHICS through its Web page.

Scientific visualization deals with increasingly complex data consisting of multiple fields. Typical disciplines generating multivariate data are fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, geology, bioengineering, and climate research. Quite often, scientists are interested in the relation between some of these variables. A popular visualization technique for a single scalar field is the extraction and rendering of isosurfaces. With this technique, the domain can be split into two parts, i.e. a volume with higher values and one with lower values than the selected isovalue. Fiber surfaces generalize this concept to two or three scalar variables up to now. This article extends the notion further to potentially any finite number of scalar fields. We generalize the fiber surface extraction algorithm of Raith et al. [RBN∗19] from 3 to d dimensions and demonstrate the technique using two examples from geology and climate research. The first application concerns a generic model of a nuclear waste repository and the second one an atmospheric simulation over central Europe. Both require complex simulations which involve multiple physical processes. In both cases, the new extended fiber surfaces helps us finding regions of interest like the nuclear waste repository or the power supply of a storm due to their characteristic properties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Offers information on how to join the European Association for Computer Graphics. Membership benefits; Contact numbers.

Addresses the 2004 Eurographics computer graphics conference organized by the Eurographics Association. List of invited speakers for the event; Significance of the event to the association.

Calls for computer graphic professionals in Europe to join the Eurographics association.