Introduction: SIGGRAPH 2000 Educators Program

In August 1999, the SIGGRAPH 2000 Educators Program issued a call for submissions that embraced the basic tenets not only of teaching computer graphics and using computer graphics to facilitate learning across the curriculum, but also of innovation, creativity, diversity and inspiration. To say we were successful in our solicitation would be an understatement. The SIGGRAPH 2000 Educators Program was filled with all of these things and more. Each of our submissions was reviewed by highly qualified individuals from academia and industry. After the review process, each submission was considered by the SIGGRAPH 2000 Educators Program Jury—a panel of artists and scientists, academics and industry persons. After the program was selected, the following two papers were chosen to be submitted to Leonardo for publication. These papers were selected because the jury felt that they best captured the vast interdisciplinary nature of art and technology and the wondrous learning environments that can be created by the blurring of the standard curricular lines. We hope that Leonardo readers find these papers as innovative, creative and inspiring as we did.