CS 6393 -- Scientific Visualization

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Course Information:

• Instructor:
  Bill Ribarsky,

  Room 371 CRB (10th and Dalney streets),
  ribarsky@cc.gatech.edu,
  Office hours: WF 2-3pm, CoC 240.
• Teaching Assistant:
  Manoj Philip,
  mphilip@cc.gatech.edu,
  Office Hours: MW 2-4:30pm, SciVis Lab (CoC 259)
• Text: The Visualization Toolkit : an Object-Oriented Approach to 3-D graphics
  Will Schroeder, Ken Martin, Bill Lorensen.
  Prentice Hall PTR, c1996
  ISSN/ISBN IS: 0131998374
• Location:CoC 102 (Classroom 2000)
• Additional Information:
• Course outline
• Class Notes (C2000 Recording)
• Class Newsgroup
• comp.graphics.visualization newsgroup
• Cooperation among Students:
  You may discuss high level design strategies and specifications of the assignments with other students in this class. However, your project is to represent your own work; there should be no substantial contribution by anyone else.
• Important dates:

  April 29        Quiz 1
  May 8           Project proposal
  

• Grading:

  Quiz 1                                  25%
  Quiz 2                                  25%
  Final Examination (project)             35%
  Homework (paper presentation, etc.)     15%
  

• Quizzes:
  The quizzes will be closed-book and will typically contain questions that require calculations as well as questions that require explanations or justifications. Questions may come from the Case Study presentations or the paper presentations (see below), so be attentive and take notes.
• Final Project
• Old projects
• Paper Presentations
• IBM DX
  • IBM Visualization Data Explorer (DX)
  • Data Explorer Repository
• Online HTML primers & tutorials
• HTML quick reference,University of Kansas
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML, from NCSA
• Writing HTML: A tutorial, Maricopa Center
• Introduction to HTML, Ian Graham
• HTML, the complete guide, Emory Univ.
• More information