The schedule is subject to change, especially the lectures more than a week in the future.
Date | Reading | Homework | Lecture |
Thu Jan 9 | N/A | Introduction, initial reading assignments | |
Tue Jan 14 | Skim K&K Multiform Visualization (2+ ways of showing same thing), 147-158, Practical Scientific Visualization Examples | Be sure you are on the mailing list | Motivation and Toolkits, "The Main Thing" |
Thu Jan 16 | Ware Ch1: Foundation for a Science of Data Visualization; Study 20-23, 25-27. | Visualization and data characteristics, Props | |
Tue Jan 21 | Ware Ch2: The Environment, Optics, Resolution, and the Display; Skim 43-47. Study 35-42, 49-61, 64-65. | "To the Pain", Interviewing a client | |
Thu Jan 23 |
Getting Started with visualization tools web page, ParaView User's Guide (Skim 5-7, read tutorials for HW0). Ware Ch3: Light, Brightness, Contrast, and Constancy; Study 69-94. |
HW0: Getting ParaView. Install the software, go through the tutorial. Upload to the Blog. | |
Tue Jan 28 | Ware Ch4: Color; Skim 98-107, 118-122, 135-138. Study 97, 108, 111-113, 122-133. Skim K&K 2D Data. | 2D Scalar: Color, Contour, Height, Glyphs, Textures | |
Thu Jan 30 | Skim Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful. (Access to PDF available from UNC campus network.) | Receptive fields, brightness illusions, simultaneous contrast, constancy, Rendering | |
Tue Feb 4 | Ware Ch5 part1: Information That Pops Out; Study 141-146. Read 147-149. Study 150-177. Ware Ch11, Study 376-381. Read 397-422. Skim the rest. | Preattentive: Information that pops out. Elin o'Hara Slavick: How to do a critique. | |
Thu Feb 6 | Read Brief article on Volumetric Depth Peeling. If interested, look at the Longer article on Volumetric Depth Peeling. | HW1: Import, view, and design for 2D data. | |
Tue Feb 11 | In-class presentation and critique of 2D homework. (Plus in-class design.) | ||
Thu Feb 13 | Ware Ch6: Static and Moving Patterns; Study 181-230. Skim 231-237. Skim K&K Motion. Read Laidlaw vector-field techniques user study. (If interested, see State of the Art in Flow Visualization: Dense and Texture-Based Methods.) (If interested, see State of the Art in Flow Visualisation: Feature Extraction and Tracking.) |
(HW2 delayed due to snow) |
[Snow day] |
Tue Feb 18 |
Skim K&K Volume. Skim K&K Surface and Slice. (If interested, look at Ambient Occlusion Opacity Mapping.) |
Vector: Particle Systems, Streamlines, streaklines, rakes, ribbons, timelines, glyphs (and tufts), textures, color | |
Thu Feb 20 | Skim K&K Multivariate, 2002 Visualization Viewpoints article | HW2: Import, view, and design for volumetric data. | Multivariate: Discrete data, Integral/separable, Glyphs, Crawfis, Laidlaw, Spot noise, DDS, Slivers, Problem reduction techniques |
Tue Feb 25 | Skim 30 Years of Multidimensional Multivariate Visualization. Skim A Grid with a View: Optimal Texturing for Perception of Layered Surface Shape. | Import, view, and design for vector data (in class, not HW) | In-class presentation and critique of vector homework. (Plus in-class design.) |
Thu Feb 27 | Ware Ch5 part2: Glyphs and multidimensional display. Study 162-172. | HW4: Import, view, and design for Gene data. | Tensor: Glyphs, surfaces, texture |
Tue Mar 4 | In-class presentation and critique of Gene homework. (Plus in-class design.) | ||
Thu Mar 6 | Study User Studies: Why, How, and When? Read Ware Appendix C. | HW5: Import, view, and design for climate data | Evaluation |
Tue Mar 11 | N/A |
Spring Break |
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Thu Mar 13 | N/A | Spring Break | |
Tue Mar 18 | In-class presentation and critique of climate homework. (Plus in-class team time.) | ||
Thu Mar 20 | Skim VTK file format document, Read ImageSurfer paper (resulted from a final project in the course). | Visualization system design examples. In-class designs for real scientist data | |
Tue Mar 25 | A Next Step: Visualizing Errors and Uncertainty; Skim K&K Animation, K&K Time. Read Ware 181-192, 211-213, 221-237; Skim 213-220. | Perceived Contours, Patterns, Uncertainty | |
Thu Mar 27 | Skim Ware Ch7: Space Perception. Read Ware Ch8: Visual Objects and Data Objects; Skim 303-324. Skim K&K Comparisons and Relationships. | Project: Initial Goals, Design and Evaluation Plan. | Surface shape, texture; Depth cues, including stereo and combinations |
Tue Apr 1 | In-class presentation and critique for projects 2 and 5 | ||
Thu Apr 3 |
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In-class presentation and critique for projects 4 and 1 | |
Tue Apr 8 | Read Ware 367-373; Skim 396-422. Skim Tamara Munzer book chapter on visualization. Skim After the Storm: Considerations for Information Visualization | Information visualization, Tufte | |
Thu Apr 10 | Visualization lab tour: MEET IN Sitterson 264. | ||
Tue Apr 15 | IEEE Visualization '97 paper on usefulness of vis in nM | Custom applications for nanoscale science (CNT from SEM, AFM, TEM; visualization interfaces) | |
Thu Apr 17 | Ware Ch6: Static and Moving Patterns (Read 193-198, skip the rest), Skim Laws of Attraction paper. | Bioinformatics | |
Tue Apr 22 | Skim Chris Johnson, Top Scientific Visualization Research Problems. | Presentation of Final Projects for 1 and 4 | |
Thu Apr 24 | Skim Al Globus, Fourteen Ways to Say Nothing with Scientific Visualization. | Presentation of Final Projects for 5 and 2 | |
Tue Apr 29 | N/A | Project write-up due | Final Project write-up due, 7pm |