The schedule is subject to change, especially the lectures more than a week in the future.
| Date | Reading | Homework | Who | Lecture |
| Tue Jan 13 | N/A | Get on the mailing list | Russ | Introduction, initial reading assignments (PDF) (HTML) |
| Thu Jan 15 | K&K Multiform Visualization (2+ ways of showing same thing), 147-158, Practical Scientific Visualization Examples | Russ | Motivation and Toolkits (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Jan 20 | Getting Started with visualization tools web page, ParaView User's Guide (Skim 5-7, skim tutorials for HW1), VisTrails User's Guide (Read 1-2, Skim 5-10, Skim tutorial for HW1). | Getting ParaView, Volview, and VisTrails. Install the software, skim through, but don't do, the tutorials, nothing to turn in. | David | Visualization Toolkits: ParaView, VisTrails, VolView (PDF) (HTML) |
| Thu Jan 22 | Ware Ch1: Foundation for a Science of Data Visualization; Study 20-25 | Russ | Visualization and data characteristics (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Jan 27 | Ware Ch2: The Environment, Optics, Resolution, and the Display; Skim 40-46. Study 30-38, 49-61. Ware Ch3: Light, Brightness, Contrast, and Constancy; Study 69-95. | HW1: Running ParaView, VolView, and VisTrails on sample data sets | David | Receptive fields, brightness illusions, simultaneous contrast, constancy (PDF) (HTML) |
| Thu Jan 29 | Ware Ch4: Color; Skim 103-109, 119-122, 138-140. Study 123-137, 143-144 | Russ | Trichromacy, Color Spaces, Properties of Color, Application (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Feb 3 | HW2: Color, Color Maps, and Application | Russ | AT RENCI: In-class presentation and critique of color homework. | |
| Thu Feb 5 | K&K 2D Data, K&K Surface and Slice. Read Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful. | Russ | 2D Scalar: Color, Contour, Height, Glyphs, Textures (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Feb 10 | HW3: Critique and Apply: Visualize Surface Data | David | AT RENCI: In-class presentation and critique of 2D scalar homework. | |
| Thu Feb 12 | Ware Ch5 part1: Information That Pops Out; Skim 145-147. Study 149-176; Skip 177-184. Ware Ch11, Study 360-366. | Russ | Preattentive: Information that pops out. In-class visualization critique (from K&K) (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Feb 17 | Skim VTK file format document, Read ImageSurfer paper (resulted from a final project in the course). | Cancelled | Russ | In-class designs for real scientist data (PDF) (HTML) |
| Thu Feb 19 | Ware Ch8: Space Perception and the Display of Data in Space; Skim 271-278, 284-287. Study 288-289. | David | 3D Scalar: Direct volume rendering, Isosurfaces, Glyphs (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Feb 24 | Ware Ch7: Visual Objects and Data Objects; Skim 231-243. Study 239-240, 244-258., K&K Comparisons and Relationships. K&K Volume. | HW4: Project: Teams selected, Visualization Goals Specification document | Russ | Surface shape, texture, transparency, contour, bivariate, integration; Depth cues, including stereo and combinations (PDF) (HTML) |
| Thu Feb 26 | K&K Multivariate, 2002 Visualization Viewpoints article | David | Multivariate: Discrete data, Integral/separable, Glyphs, Crawfis, Laidlaw, Spot noise, DDS, Slivers, Problem reduction techniques(PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Mar 3 | HW5: Critique and Apply: Visualize Volume Data | David | AT RENCI: In-class presentation and critique of 3D scalar homework, RENCI tour. | |
| Thu Mar 5 | Laidlaw vector-field techniques user study. | Russ | Vector: Particle Systems, Streamlines, streaklines, rakes, ribbons, timelines, glyphs (and tufts), textures, color. (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Mar 10 | N/A | Spring Break | ||
| Thu Mar 12 | N/A |
Spring Break |
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| Tue Mar 17 | Study User Studies: Why, How, and When? Read Ware Appendix C. | HW6: Project Design Document | David | Evaluation (Russ in Cincinnatti) (PDF, HTML) |
| Thu Mar 19 | Skim Haptic Cell brochure, Read Brief article on Volumetric Depth Peeling. If interested, look at the Longer article on Volumetric Depth Peeling. | Russ | Visualization system design examples (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Mar 24 | HW7: Critique and Apply: Visualize Vector Data | David | AT RENCI: In-class presentation and critique of vector homework. | |
| Thu Mar 26 | Read Ware 339-349; Skim 375-383. Skim After the Storm: Considerations for Information Visualization | David | Information visualization, genomic data display, Tufte (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Mar 31 | Study Taylor Haptic Visualization Applications Article, and skim Mark Haptic Display paper. | Russ | Haptic display of information (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Thu Apr 2 | Ware Ch5 part2: Glyphs and multidimensional display. Study 176-186. | Russ | Tensor: Glyphs, surfaces, texture (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Apr 7 | HW8: Design of mouse embryo data. | David | AT RENCI: In-class critique of HW. (and Props PDF) | |
| Thu Apr 9 | IEEE Visualization '97 paper on usefulness of vis in nM | Russ | Custom applications for nanoscale science (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Apr 14 |
Ware Ch6: Static and Moving Patterns; Study 189-209. Skim K&K Motion. |
David | Perceived Contours, Patterns, Props for for visualization, etc. | |
| Thu Apr 16 | A Next Step: Visualizing Errors and Uncertainty; K&K Animation, K&K Time | David | Visualizing uncertainty | |
| Tue Apr 21 | David | Bioinformatics | ||
| Thu Apr 23 | Chris Johnson, Top Scientific Visualization Research Problems; Al Globus, Fourteen Ways to Say Nothing with Scientific Visualization | Bring K&K books back! | Y'all | Presentation of Final Projects |
| Thu May 7 | N/A | Project write-up due | Final Project write-up due, 7pm |