Acknowledgments

I would like to thank all of the researchers, clinicians, and technologists at NIH for their ideas, help, and friendships. I would like to thank Alex for inviting me to write Chapters 4 through 6 in this book. I would also like to thank all the editors and reviewers, especially Regina Geoghan, for their help in preparing these chapters. I am also grateful to my many students for helping me to organize and refine much of this work. Most importantly, I would like to thank my family for supporting me throughout this book and throughout my career. —John Ostuni

Thanks to the multi-talented Mark Grundy (The Black Duck) for the music recordings used as audio examples in Chapter 7.

My thanks go to my colleagues and workmates at the School of Computer Science, ADFA, who provided both support and a bit of good-natured ribbing. In particular, my thanks go to Peter Morris, who captured and encoded the video samples of Chapter 7 and provided much good advice besides.

Thanks also to Wen Ung for the generous loan of a Webcam with which to test video capture code. Also thanks go to Aaron Mihe, who got my home PC (on which a lot of the text was written) up and running again after my fiddling—yet more proof that programmers shouldn't go near hardware. Finally, to Professor Charles Newton, Head of School, who supported my efforts with the book.

Thanks to Alex for taking me on board with the book. Last, but first in my heart, thanks to my family: Maria, Zoe, and Grant. They supported me in every way and didn't deserve the nights and weekends lost to my authoring. —Michael Barlow

I wish to thank Justin Couch and Alan Hudson of Yumetech for their considerable contributions to the ROAM code, their participation in the Java 3D mailing list and their tireless work on www.j3d.org. The Java 3D community is lucky to have them.

Thanks to Julian Gomez for his friendship and mentoring in 3D graphics.

Thanks to Paul Byrne for his contributions to the ROAM algorithm.

Thanks to Mark Hood for explaining the View Model with such clarity and for helping me so many times in getting various goggles working.

Finally, thanks to my students, Jose Thota, Eric Blackwell and Mike Meyer at Michigan State University who contributed to some of the writing and a lot of the testing of the code in Chapters 11-14 —Alex Terrazas