Scientific Visualization (CS4550)
Fall 2007 on TTh at noon in CCB102

Instructor: Prof. Jarek Rossignac. Office hours Tu, 11-12 in CoC Commons

Dates for projects and exams:
  • Quizes, anytime no warning (closed books)
  • Sep 4 : Project 1
  • Sep 25: Project 2
  • Oct 4: Midterm (closed books, 1 page cheat sheet)
  • Oct 30: Project 3
  • Nov 27: Project 4
  • Dec 11: Final (closed books, 1 page cheat sheet)
    Rough schedule for lectures:
  • Aug 21: Intro, Plots
  • Aug 23: Perception
  • Aug 28: Terrain
  • Sep 4: Depiction, Comparison
  • Sep 11: Filtering, Segmentation
  • Sep 18: Volume visualization techniques
  • Sep 25: Interactive v olume exploration
  • Oct 2: Revisions and Midterm
  • Oct 9: Isosurfaces extraction and processing
  • Oct 16:
  • Oct 23: Flow visualization, Animation
  • Oct 30: Project 3 presentations
  • Nov 6: Tetrahedra
  • Nov 13: Multiresolution, Streaming
  • Nov 20: Higher dimensions
  • Nov 27: Project 4 presentations
    Grading:
  • Projects: 40%
  • Final: 30%
  • Midterm: 15%
  • Quizzes: 15%
    No late submissions or exam make-up, but opportunities to gain extra credit.
    Resources:
  • Jarek Rossignac's Geometric and Visual Computing (GVC) lectures and CoC Qualifier in GVC
  • Math
  • Computer Graphics Terms
  • OpenGL: GSU tutorial, Toronto tutorial, McGill tutorial, pixel access
  • Nvidia Scene Graph
  • Game development tools
  • Graphic courses/utorials: Humphreys, Gotsman, eft, Shene, Interrante, zbuffer,
  • Modeling: Funkhouser,
  • Geometry: Conway, Polygon area, circle, triangle centers,
  • Computational Geometry: Voronoi,
  • Vis: Stuttgart, Interrante,
  • Non-Photorealistic Rendering: NYU, UMN, papers,
  • GPU: Hart,
  • Animation: James, James, Witkin,
  • Advice to students and authors