CS 6393 -- Scientific Visualization

Visualization of valence shells of a hydrogen atom. The model was created by Debra Houck using Alias Studio.	Pollution Emission and Transport in the Los Angeles Basin by Ruiyan Lin, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA

Course Information:

• Instructor:
  Bill Ribarsky,

  Room 371 CRB (10th and Dalney streets),
  ribarsky@cc.gatech.edu,
  
• 
  Teaching Assistant:
  Don Allison,
  don@cc.gatech.edu,
  
• Text: The Visualization Toolkit 2nd ed.
  Will Schroeder, Ken Martin, Bill Lorensen.
  Prentice Hall PTR, c1997
  ISSN/ISBN IS: 0139546944
• Location:CoC 101
• Additional Information:
• 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.
• Syllabus

• Grading:

  Quiz 1						25%
  Quiz 2						25%
  Final Exam (porject & web presentation)		30%
  Homework, paper presentations, etc		15%
  

• Important Dates:

  Quiz 1						May  3
  Proposal due					May  5
  Quiz 2						??????
  Preliminary Web page due			May 24
  Final Web page due				May 31
  Project due					June 4
  

• 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.
• Old projects
• Current projects
• 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.