GRAPHICS STANDARDS ARE BORING - DISCUSS

Standards, of course, should be boring-if they work they just produce predictable, boringly consistent results, but this paper anises from a sense of frustration after several years of attempting to teach graph ics standards in interesting ways in undergraduate programmes. The pap er surveys the way in which standards are taught at universities in th e UK and the practical systems used to teach graphics courses. If the authors' experiences were mirrored elsewhere the expectation would be that the results of the survey would show that graphics is generally t aught using nonstandard systems and that standards occupy a smaller ro le, being taught from a theoretical point of view. An objective of the research is thus to discover whether this view is in fact correct and , if so, investigate the reasons for it.