Scientific Visualization - Spring 2003 Syllabus

Scientific Visualization - Spring 2003

Announcements

VTK is now installed (C++ version) acpub at

/afs/acpub.duke.edu/project/cps/pkgs/vtk-4.0/VTK

I am still working on getting the Java version functional. -Jam

Textbooks

Information Visualization: Perception for Design by Colin Ware, 2000, (ISBN 1-55860-511-8).

The following books may be useful as references:

The Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics, by William Schroeder, Ken Martin, Bill Lorensen.
Visual Cues: Practical Data Visualization by Peter Keller and Mary Keller, IEEE Press, 1993, (ISBN 0-8186-3102-3). (out of print)
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition, Foley, van Dam, Feiner, Hughes, Addison Wesley, 1993

Project Software

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) will be used in the first few homework assignments. VTK is an open-source library which provides excellent implementations of many visualization algorithms.

Projects may use VTK, or one of two commercial visualization packages: Amira or AVS/Express. The North Carolina Supercomputing Center has an excellent AVS Tutorial.

Schedule

Tuesdays	Thursdays
	Jan 9 Overview, Motivation, VTK, Amira, AVS Express
Jan 14 Coordinate Systems, Sample Theory	Jan 16 Navigation, Interaction
Jan 21 Perception: Light, Brightness, Constrast, Constancy, Color Theory	Jan 23 Perception(cont)
Jan 28 Components of an Effective Visualization	Jan 30 2D Scalar Visualization Methods
Feb 4 Surface Extraction: Isosurface, Convex Hull	Feb 6 Surface Extraction (cont)
Feb 11 VolVis: Direct Volume Rendering, MIP, Ray Casting, Texture-based Rendering, Splatting, Transfer Functions	Feb 13 VolVis (cont)
Feb 18 VolVis (cont)	Feb 20 VolVis (cont)
Feb 25 Methods for Time-Varying Data: static	Feb 27 Methods for Time-Varying Data: dynamic
Mar 4 Review, Class Projects	Mar 6 Midterm
Mar 11 SPRING BREAK	Mar 13 SPRING BREAK
Mar 18 FlowVis: Design & Traditional Techniques	Mar 21 FlowVis (cont)
Mar 25 FlowVis: Texture-Based Techniques	Mar 28 FlowVis (cont)
Apr 1 InfoVis: Goals & Problems	Apr 3 InfoVis: Web-based Tools
Apr 8 Virtual Reality Design & Interfaces	Apr 10 Virtual Reality Interfaces (cont)
Apr 15 Project Presentations	Apr 17 Project Presentations

Instructor: Rachael Brady (rbrady@duke.edu)
Office: D212 LSRC
Office Hours: 11am-Noon M, 1-2pm Th or by appointment
TA: Jam Jenkins (cjj1@duke.edu)