Topics

• What is visualization? & Why visualize? VTK Chapt. 1
  
• Computer graphics basics VTK Chapt. 3
  
• Illumination models: Gouraud; Phong ; ray tracing VTK Chapt. 3
  
• Data Representations I VTK Chapt. 5
  
• Visualization Toolkits
  
• The Visualization Pipeline VTK Chapt. 4
  
• Cognition and perception in Visualization
  
• Scalar, vector, and tensor fields VTK Chapt. 6, Chapt. 9
  
• Surface and Volume visualization
  
• Applications VTK Chapt. 11
  
• Visualization Design
  
• Multivariate visualization techniques
  
• Large scale data
  
• Interactive visualization & animation
  
• Wavelets