DataVis2012/Schedule

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1/23: Introduction to visualization

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Topics: Visualization

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1/30: The visualization pipeline

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Topics: Procedural vs. Dataflow programming; Using Dataflow for the Vis Pipeline; Dataflow programming with VTK; Dataflow programming with VisTrails; python.

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2/6: Modeling Data for Visualization

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Topics: Discrete vs continous data; Sampling and interpolation; Point vs triangulated data; Meshing data types; Regular vs irregular data; Tabular data; Vector and tensor fields; Geometry Processing: Reconstruction and meshing; Simplification; Smoothing; Other Filtering algorithms

Topics (here???): Basic linear algebra; vectors; basic differential geometry (space curves, tangents, normals, surfaces); basic vector calculus (gradient, divergence, curl, gauss' theorem, green's theorem)

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2/13: Plotting

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Topics: Simple Plotting Methods: Dot Plots, Connected Symbol Plots, Scatter Plots, Histograms, Others. Advanced Plotting Methods: Multimodal, Higher Dimensional, Correlation, Uncertainty and Variation.

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2/27: Color and Human Perception

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Topics: Color Science; Color spaces; Color Blindness; Color maps; Tone mapping

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3/5 2D Visualization Techniques

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Topics: 2-D contours, marching quads, marching tris; Color mapping; height fields; NPR; 2-D vector fields, div, grad, curl in 2D; Steady vs Unsteady flows; Glyphs; 2-D streamlines, streaklines, pathlines

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3/19 Volume Visualization

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Topics: Slicing; Contours; Marching algorithms; Accelerating structures; High-quality contours

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3/26 Volume Visualization

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Topics: Structured grid techniques: ray-casting, splatting, texture slicing, shear-warp; Unstructured grid techniques; Transfer function specification

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4/9 Vector & Tensor Visualization

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Topics: DT/MRI intro, glyphs, colormapping, volume rendering; 3D techniques, critical points

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4/16: Information Visualization

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Topics: Parallel coordinates; Graph visualization; Trees and Graphs; InfoVis Examples

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4/23: Information Visualization

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Topics: Parallel coordinates; Graph visualization; Trees and Graphs; InfoVis Examples

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5/7: Information Visualization

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Topics: Parallel coordinates; Graph visualization; Trees and Graphs; InfoVis Examples

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