The schedule is subject to change, especially the guest lectures and lectures more than a week in the future.
| Date | Reading | Homework | Who | Lecture |
| Thu Jan 10 | N/A | Get on the mailing list | Russ | Introduction, initial reading assignments (PDF) (HTML) |
| Tue Jan 15 | K&K Multiform Visualization (2+ ways of showing same thing), 147-158 | Russ | Motivation and Examples (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Thu Jan 17 | 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 VTK, ParaView, and VisTrails. Install the software, skim through, but don't do, the tutorials, nothing to turn in. | Cory/Both | Visualization Toolkits; ParaView and VisTrails; Sample visualizations (PDF) (HTML) |
| Tue Jan 22 | Ware Ch1: Foundation for a Science of Data Visualization; Study 20-25 | Russ | Visualization and data characteristics (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Thu Jan 24 | Ware Ch2: The Environment, Optics, Resolution, and the Display; Skim 40-46. Study 30-38, 49-61. | HW1: Running ParaView and VisTrails on sample data sets | Cory | Lighting, surface perception, texture, aliasing, acuities (PDF) (HTML) |
| Tue Jan 29 | Ware Ch3: Light, Brightness, Contrast, and Constancy; Study 69-95. | Cory | Receptive fields, brightness illusions, simultaneous contrast, constancy (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Thu Jan 31 | Ware Ch4: Color; Skim 103-109, 119-122, 138-140. Study 123-137, 143-144 | Cory | Trichromacy, Color Spaces, Properties of Color, Application (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Feb 5 | Read Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful. | HW2: Exploring and Explaining Perceptual Illusions | Russ | Painful example visualizations, example visualization design (PDF) (HTML) |
| Thu Feb 7 | K&K 2D Data, K&K Surface and Slice | Cory | 2D Scalar: Color, Contour, Height, Glyphs, Textures (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Feb 12 | Ware Ch5 part1: Information That Pops Out; Skim 145-147. Study 149-176; Skip 177-184. Ware Ch11, Study 360-366. | HW3: Color, Color Maps, and Application | Russ | Preattentive: Information that pops out. In-class visualization critique (from K&K) (PDF) (HTML) |
| Thu Feb 14 | Skim VTK file format document, Read ImageSurfer paper (resulted from a final project in the course). | Both | Importing data. Example visualization design (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Feb 19 | K&K Volume | HW4: Project: Teams selected, Visualization Goals Specification document | Cory | 3D Scalar: Direct volume rendering, Isosurfaces, Glyphs (PDF) (HTML) |
| Thu Feb 21 | Ware Ch8: Space Perception and the Display of Data in Space; Skim 271-278, 284-287. Study 288-289. | David Borland, RENCI | RENCI UNC Engagment Center visualization facilities tour | |
| Tue Feb 26 | Ware Ch7: Visual Objects and Data Objects; Skim 231-243. Study 239-240, 244-258., K&K Comparisons and Relationships. | HW5: VTK: Importing data and visualizing it | Cory | Surface shape, texture, transparency, contour, bivariate, integration; Depth cues, including stereo and combinations (PDF) (HTML) |
| Thu Feb 28 | 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 4 | Ware Ch6: Static and Moving Patterns; Study 189-209. | HW6: Critique and Apply: Visualize Surface Data | Cory | Gestalt, Perceived contours, vector display, transparency, motion (PDF) (HTML) |
| Thu Mar 6 | K&K Motion | Both | In-class peer critique of 2D visualization homework (PDF) (HTML) (VisTrails file from in-class design) | |
| Tue Mar 11 | N/A | Spring Break | ||
| Thu Mar 13 | N/A |
Spring Break |
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| Tue Mar 18 | Class cancelled out of respect for Eve Carson. | HW7: Critique and Apply: Visualize Volume Data | ||
| Thu Mar 20 | Skim K&K Models. | Both | In-class peer critique of volume data visualization homework (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Mar 25 | Laidlaw vector-field techniques user study. | HW8: Project Design Document | Cory | Vector: Particle Systems, Streamlines, streaklines, rakes, ribbons, timelines, glyphs (and tufts), textures, color (PDF) (HTML) |
| Thu Mar 27 | Study User Studies: Why, How, and When? Read Ware Appendix C. | Russ | Vector display user study, Evaluation (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Apr 1 | K&K Multivariate, 2002 Visualization Viewpoints article | HW9: Critique and Apply: Visualize Vector Data | Russ | Multivariate: Discrete data, Integral/separable, Glyphs, Crawfis, Laidlaw, Spot noise, DDS, Slivers, Problem reduction techniques (PDF) (HTML) |
| Thu Apr 3 | Ware Ch5 part2: Glyphs and multidimensional display. Study 176-186. | Russ | Tensor: Glyphs, surfaces, texture (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Apr 8 | Read Ware 339-349; Skim 375-383. Skim After the Storm: Considerations for Information Visualization | HW10: Canceled | Cory | Information visualization, genomic data display, Tufte (PDF) (HTML) |
| Thu Apr 10 | A Next Step: Visualizing Errors and Uncertainty; K&K Animation, K&K Time | Cory | Visualizing uncertainty (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Tue Apr 15 | Study Taylor Haptic Visualization Applications Article, and skim Mark Haptic Display paper. | Russ | Haptic display of information (PDF) (HTML) | |
| Thu Apr 17 | IEEE Visualization '97 paper on usefulness of vis in nM | Russ | Custom applications for nanoscale science | |
| Tue Apr 22 | Chris Johnson, Top Scientific Visualization Research Problems; Al Globus, Fourteen Ways to Say Nothing with Scientific Visualization | Russ | Presentation of Final Projects (Teams 1, 2, 9) | |
| Thu Apr 24 | K&K Artistic Cues | Bring K&K books back! | Cory | Presentation of Final Projects (Teams 4, 5, 7) |
| Tue May 6 | N/A | Project write-up | Final Project write-up due, 7pm |