SciVisFall2007/Schedule

8/21: Introduction to visualization

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Scientific Visualization

Notes: lec01-notes.pdf

Slides: lec01.pdf

Animations: explosion_640x480-5.mov, fig7.mov, fig8.mov, fig9.mov, SevereTstorm.mov

Further reading:

Visualizing Spatial and Temporal Variability in Coastal Observatories, W. Herrera-Jimenez, W. Correa, C. Silva, and A. Baptista, IEEE Visualization 2003.

8/23: The visualization pipeline

Lecturer: Claudio

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

Notes: TBA

Slides: lec02.pdf

Further reading:

Provenance for Visualizations: Reproducibility and Beyond, C. Silva, J. Freire, and S. Callahan, IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, to appear.

8/28: Modeling Data for Visualization

Lecturer: Carlos

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

Notes: TBA

Slides: TBA

Animations: TBA

Further reading: TBA

8/30: Modeling Data for Visualization

Lecturer: Carlos

Topics: Geometry Processing: Reconstruction and meshing; Simplification; Smoothing; Other Filtering algorithms

Notes: TBA

Slides: TBA

Animations: TBA

Further reading: TBA

9/4: Elementary Plotting Techniques

Lecturer: Steve

Topics: Principles of Graph Construction (Cleveland); Single Variable: Linear regression (least-squares); Linear, Log-plots, Log-Log plots; Bar charts; Pie charts; Polar plots

9/6: Elementary Plotting Techniques

Lecturer: Steve

Topics: Multivariable and multimodal; Histograms; Autocorrelation plots; Scatter plots; Tukey-bars (uncertainty)

9/11: Color and Human Perception

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Human vision system; Optical illusions

9/13: Color and Human Perception

Lecturer: Claudio

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

Further reading:

How Not to Lie with Visualization. B. Rogowitz and L. Treinish. Computers in Physics, 10, n.3, pp. 268-274, May/June 1996.

A Rule-based Tool for Assisting Colormap Selection. L. Bergman, B. Rogowitz and L. Treinish. IEEE Visualization '95, pp. 118-125, October 1995.

9/18: 2D Visualization Techniques

Lecturer: Carlos

Topics: 2-D contours, marching quads, marching tris; Color mapping; height fields; NPR

9/20: 2D Visualization Techniques

Lecturer: Carlos

Topics: 2-D vector fields, div, grad, curl in 2D; Steady vs Unsteady flows; Glyphs; 2-D streamlines; 2-D streaklines

9/25: Volume Vis

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Slicing; Contours; Marching algorithms

9/27: Volume Vis

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Accelerating structures; High-quality contours

10/2: Volume Vis

Lecturer: Steve

Topics: Direct volume rendering; optical models; Ray casting; Texture-based; Acceleration structures

10/4: Volume Vis

Lecturer: Steve

Topics: Unstructured techniques; ray casting; pt; zsweep; havs

10/16: Volume Vis

Lecturer: Steve

Topics: Transfer functions; function statistics (histograms); multi-dimensional; contour spectrum

10/23: Vector and Tensor Visualization

Lecturer: Carlos

Topics: Differential Geometry in 3D: Div, Grad, Curl; Revisit Unsteady vs. Steady flows; Streamribbons, surfaces, tubes, streamlines and streaklines

10/25: Vector and Tensor Visualization

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: LIC; hyper LIC; Topology-based techniques

10/30: Simplification Techniques

Guest lecture: Yuan Zhou

11/1: Cosmology and EEG analysis

Guest lecture: Erik Anderson

11/6: Vector and Tensor Vis

Lecturer: Carlos

Topics: Glyphs; DTI techniques

11/8: Aesthetic Issues in Vis

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Volume Illustration and NPR

11/13: Aesthetic Issues in Vis

Lecturer: Steve

Topics: Tufte

11/15: Aesthetic Issues in Vis

Lecturer: Steve

Topics: Tufte

11/20: Information Visualization

Lecturer: Carlos

Topics: Parallel coordinates; Graph visualization

11/27: Information Visualization

Lecturer: Claudio

Topics: Hierarchical data vis; brushing; sizing text