The schedule is subject to change, especially the lectures more than a week in the future.
| Date | Reading | Homework | Lecture |
| Thu Jan 10 | N/A | Introduction, initial reading assignments | |
| Tue Jan 15 | 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 17 | Ware Ch1: Foundation for a Science of Data Visualization; Study 20-23, 25-27. | Visualization and data characteristics, Props | |
| Tue Jan 22 | 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 24 |
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 39 | 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 31 | Skim Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful. (Free access to PDF from UNC campus network.) | Receptive fields, brightness illusions, simultaneous contrast, constancy, Rendering | |
| Tue Feb 5 | 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. In-class visualization design. | |
| Thu Feb 7 | Skim K&K Volume. Skim K&K Surface and Slice. (If interested, look at Ambient Occlusion Opacity Mapping.) | HW1: Import, view, and design for 2D data. | |
| Tue Feb 12 | Skim K&K Multivariate, 2002 Visualization Viewpoints article | In-class presentation and critique of 2D homework. (Plus in-class design.) | |
| Thu Feb 14 | Read Brief article on Volumetric Depth Peeling. If interested, look at the Longer article on Volumetric Depth Peeling. | HW2: Import, view, and design for stellar fusion data. | 3D Scalar: Direct volume rendering, Isosurfaces, Glyphs |
| Tue Feb 19 |
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In-class presentation and critique of stellar fusion homework. (Plus in-class design.) | |
| Thu Feb 21 | 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.) | HW3: Import, view, and design for volume data | Vector: Particle Systems, Streamlines, streaklines, rakes, ribbons, timelines, glyphs (and tufts), textures, color |
| Tue Feb 26 | Skim 30 Years of Multidimensional Multivariate Visualization. Skim A Grid with a View: Optimal Texturing for Perception of Layered Surface Shape. | In-class presentation and critique of volume homework. (Plus in-class design.) | |
| Thu Feb 28 | Ware Ch5 part2: Glyphs and multidimensional display. Study 162-172. | HW4: Import, view, and design for vector data. | Tensor: Glyphs, surfaces, texture |
| Tue Mar 5 | In-class presentation and critique of vector homework. (Plus in-class design.) | ||
| Thu Mar 7 | Study User Studies: Why, How, and When? Read Ware Appendix C. | HW5: Import, view, and design for 3D data | Evaluation |
| Tue Mar 12 | N/A |
Spring Break |
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| Thu Mar 14 | N/A | Spring Break | |
| Tue Mar 19 | In-class presentation and critique of 3D homework. (Plus in-class team time.) | ||
| Thu Mar 21 | 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 26 | Skim Ware Ch8: Space Perception and the Display of Data in Space. Ware Ch7: Visual Objects and Data Objects; Skim 227-243. Study 244-254. Skim K&K Comparisons and Relationships. XXX check pages in new edition. | Project: Initial Goals, Design and Evaluation Plan. | XXX redo/replace Surface shape, texture; Depth cues, including stereo and combinations |
| Thu Mar 28 | A Next Step: Visualizing Errors and Uncertainty; Skim K&K Animation, K&K Time. | Perceived Contours, Patterns, Uncertainty. | |
| Tue Apr 2 | In-class presentation and critique for projects 1, 3, and 5 | ||
| Thu Apr 4 |
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In-class presentation and critique for projects 4 and 6 | |
| Tue Apr 9 | Read Ware 339-349; Skim 375-383. Skim Tamara Munzer book chapter on visualization. Skim After the Storm: Considerations for Information Visualization | Information visualization, Tufte | |
| Thu Apr 11 | Visualization lab tour | ||
| Tue Apr 16 | Ware Ch6: Static and Moving Patterns; Read 189-200, Skip 200-204., Skim Laws of Attraction paper. | XXX redo/replace Bioinformatics | |
| Thu Apr 18 | IEEE Visualization '97 paper on usefulness of vis in nM | Custom applications for nanoscale science (CNT from SEM, AFM, TEM; visualization interfaces) | |
| Tue Apr 23 | Skim Chris Johnson, Top Scientific Visualization Research Problems. | Presentation of Final Projects for 4 and 6 | |
| Thu Apr 25 | Skim Al Globus, Fourteen Ways to Say Nothing with Scientific Visualization. | Presentation of Final Projects for 1, 3, and 5 | |
| Tue Apr 30 | N/A | Project write-up due | Final Project write-up due, 7pm |