Difference between revisions of "SciVisFall2007/Schedule"
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=== Interpolation === | |||
[http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/papers/papers/geodesic-loxodromes-final.html Geodesic-loxodromes...] This is the fancy interpolation for diffusion tensors I mentioned in class. | |||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_polynomial Bernstein polynomials] These are the polynomials used for cubic Bezier curves that I mentioned in class. | |||
==== Separability ==== | |||
[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1187793 Extensions of the Zwart-Powell Box spline...] This is a recent paper that shows a class of trivariate reconstruction techniques that are ''not'' separable. | |||
== 8/30: Modeling Data for Visualization == | == 8/30: Modeling Data for Visualization == | ||
Revision as of 20:38, 28 August 2007
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: .ppt file
Further reading:
Interpolation
Geodesic-loxodromes... This is the fancy interpolation for diffusion tensors I mentioned in class.
Bernstein polynomials These are the polynomials used for cubic Bezier curves that I mentioned in class.
Separability
Extensions of the Zwart-Powell Box spline... This is a recent paper that shows a class of trivariate reconstruction techniques that are not separable.
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
10/9: Fall break
10/11: Fall break
10/16: Volume Vis
Lecturer: Steve
Topics: Transfer functions; function statistics (histograms); multi-dimensional; contour spectrum
10/18: Midterm 1
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
11/22: Thanksgiving
11/27: Information Visualization
Lecturer: Claudio
Topics: Hierarchical data vis; brushing; sizing text