Difference between revisions of "SciVisFall2008/Schedule"

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== 9/25:  2D Visualization Techniques ==
== 9/25:  2D Visualization Techniques ==


Lecturer: Carlos
Lecturer: Claudio


Topics: 2-D vector fields, div, grad, curl in 2D; Steady vs Unsteady flows; Glyphs; 2-D streamlines, streaklines, pathlines
Topics: 2-D vector fields, div, grad, curl in 2D; Steady vs Unsteady flows; Glyphs; 2-D streamlines, streaklines, pathlines
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== 10/28: Direct Volume Rendering ==
== 10/28: Direct Volume Rendering ==


Lecturer: Steve
Lecturer: Claudio


Topics: Structured grid techniques: ray-casting, splatting, texture slicing, shear-warp
Topics: Structured grid techniques: ray-casting, splatting, texture slicing, shear-warp


== 10/30: Cosmology and EEG analysis ==
== 10/30: TBD ==
 
Guest lecture: Erik Anderson
 
Topics:  Applications of Visualization Techniques, Multi-modal Visualization


== 11/4: Simplification Techniques ==  
== 11/4: Simplification Techniques ==  


Guest lecture: Yuan Zhou
Lecturer: Claudio


Topics: Simplification techniques: vertex clustering, vertex decimation, iterative contraction, quadric error based surface and tetrahedral simplification
Topics: Simplification techniques: vertex clustering, vertex decimation, iterative contraction, quadric error based surface and tetrahedral simplification
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== 11/13: Tensor Visualization ==
== 11/13: Tensor Visualization ==


Lecturer: Carlos
Lecturer: Claudio


Topics: DT/MRI intro, glyphs, colormapping, volume rendering
Topics: DT/MRI intro, glyphs, colormapping, volume rendering
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== 11/15: 3D Vector Vis and Topology ==
== 11/15: 3D Vector Vis and Topology ==


Lecturer: Carlos
Lecturer: Claudio


Topics: 3D techniques, critical points
Topics: 3D techniques, critical points
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== 11/18: Information Visualization ==
== 11/18: Information Visualization ==


Lecturer: Carlos
Lecturer: Claudio


Topics: Parallel coordinates; Graph visualization
Topics: Parallel coordinates; Graph visualization


== 11/20: Information Visualization ==
== 11/20: Information Visualization ==


Lecturer: Carlos and Steve
Lecturer: Claudio


Topics:  Trees and Graphs; InfoVis Examples
Topics:  Trees and Graphs; InfoVis Examples
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== 12/2:  Aesthetic Issues in Vis ==
== 12/2:  Aesthetic Issues in Vis ==


Lecturer: Steve
Lecturer: Claudio


Topics: Tufte principles
Topics: Tufte principles
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== 12/4: Aesthetic Issues in Vis ==
== 12/4: Aesthetic Issues in Vis ==


Lecturer: Steve
Lecturer: Claudio


Topics: NPR and Illustrative techniques for Vis
Topics: NPR and Illustrative techniques for Vis

Revision as of 05:57, 26 August 2008

8/26: Introduction to visualization

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Scientific Visualization

Notes:

Slides:

Animations:

Further reading:

8/28: The visualization pipeline

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Procedural vs. Dataflow programming; Using Dataflow for the Vis Pipeline; Dataflow programming with VTK; Dataflow programming with VisTrails; python.

Notes:

Slides:

Animations:

Further reading:

9/2: Modeling Data for Visualization

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Discrete vs continous data; Sampling and interpolation; Point vs triangulated data; Meshing data types; Regular vs irregular data; Tabular data; Vector and tensor fields

Notes:

Slides:

Animations:

Further reading:

9/4: Modeling Data for Visualization

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Geometry Processing: Reconstruction and meshing; Simplification; Smoothing; Other Filtering algorithms


9/9: Elementary Plotting Techniques

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Principles of Graph Construction

9/11: Elementary Plotting Techniques

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Simple Plotting Methods: Dot Plots, Connected Symbol Plots, Scatter Plots, Histograms, Others. Advanced Plotting Methods: Multimodal, Higher Dimensional, Correlation, Uncertainty and Variation.

9/16: Color and Human Perception

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Human vision system; Optical illusions

9/18: Color and Human Perception

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Color Science; Color spaces; Color Blindness; Color maps; Tone mapping; 2-D contours, marching quads, marching tris; Color mapping; height fields; NPR

9/23: Math refresher

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Basic linear algebra; vectors; basic differential geometry (space curves, tangents, normals, surfaces); basic vector calculus (gradient, divergence, curl, gauss' theorem, green's theorem)

9/25: 2D Visualization Techniques

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: 2-D vector fields, div, grad, curl in 2D; Steady vs Unsteady flows; Glyphs; 2-D streamlines, streaklines, pathlines

9/30: Volume Vis

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Slicing; Contours; Marching algorithms

10/2: Volume Vis

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Accelerating structures; High-quality contours

10/7: Volume Vis

Lecturer: SUB

Topics: High quality isosurfaces

10/9: Volume Vis

Lecturer: SUB

Topics: continued from last class

10/14: Fall break

10/16: Fall break

10/21: Direct Volume Rendering

Lecturer: SUB

Topics: Introduction to volume rendering

10/23: Midterm 1

10/28: Direct Volume Rendering

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Structured grid techniques: ray-casting, splatting, texture slicing, shear-warp

10/30: TBD

11/4: Simplification Techniques

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Simplification techniques: vertex clustering, vertex decimation, iterative contraction, quadric error based surface and tetrahedral simplification

11/6: Direct Volume Rendering

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Unstructured grid techniques

11/11: Direct Volume Rendering

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Transfer function specification

11/13: Tensor Visualization

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: DT/MRI intro, glyphs, colormapping, volume rendering

11/15: 3D Vector Vis and Topology

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: 3D techniques, critical points

Slides: 3D vector vis, .pdf file Vector field topology, .pdf file

11/18: Information Visualization

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Parallel coordinates; Graph visualization

11/20: Information Visualization

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Trees and Graphs; InfoVis Examples

11/25: TBD

11/27: Thanksgiving

12/2: Aesthetic Issues in Vis

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Tufte principles

12/4: Aesthetic Issues in Vis

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: NPR and Illustrative techniques for Vis

12/9: TBD

12/11: TBD