Schedule: CS 594 Visualization and Advanced Computer Graphics

Week 1: 01/09

Overview and introduction Lecture 1
Color space, triangle mesh, transformations, viewing pipeline and visibility (lectures 2-5, 8-9 in my Fall 2001 CS 594) Lecture 2

Week 2: 01/14

Illumination and shading, texturing and anti-aliasing (lectures 10-11, 13-14, 18-19 in my Fall 2001 CS 594) Lecture 3
Data acquisition, grids and data representation, point-based and image-based representations Lecture 4, 5
Interpolation kernels (reconstruction kernels or basis functions)

Week 3: 01/21

Image-order algorithms: ray-casting Lecture 6, 7
Ray-casting continued

Week 4: 01/28

Optical models and volume integration Lecture 8
Object-order algorithms: splatting (1) Lecture 9,10
Object-order algorithms: splatting (2)

Week 5: 02/04

3D texture mapping and shear-warp Lecture 11
Iso-surfacing and span-space Lecture 12, 13
Interval tree, extrema graph and asymtotic decider

Week 6: 02/11

Vector field visualization intro Lecture 14
P1: Line integral convolution Lecture 15 (Farial Shahnaz)
Unstructured volume rendering Lecture 16, 17

Week 7: 02/18

cell projection and topological sort
Discrete space, voxelization Lecture 18, 19
distance field

Week 8: 02/25

Midterm review
Midterm
Midterm return

Week 9: 03/04

Image-base rendering intro Lecture 20
IBR: Plenoptic sampling Lecture 21
P2: Image-based lighting Lecture 22 (Justin Rogers)

Week 10: 03/11

Parallel rendering intro and the sort-first, sort-middle, sort-last paradigm Lecture 23
P3: Distributed graphics for tiled displays and cluster-of-workstations Lecture 24 (Bruce Johnson)
P4: SGI Infinite Reality (IR) engine Lecture 25 (Jamison Daniel)

Week 11: 03/18

Spring break!!

Week 12: 03/25

P5: Parallel volume rendering Lecture 26 (Jin Ding)
P6: Large-scale visualization for tiled displays Lecture 27 (Adam Howard)
Spring Recess!

Week 13: 04/01

Distributed Graphics: two case studies Lecture 28
P8: point-based rendering, surfels Lecture 29 (Kevin Reed)
P9: point-based rendering, Qsplat Lecture 30 (Nathan Fout)

Week 14: 04/08

Transfer function design Lecture 31
P10: Diffusion tensor field visualization Lecture 32 (Chris Kuck)
Information visualization intro Lecture 33, 34

Week 15: 04/15

Information visualization intro (cont.)
P11: Information visualization 1 Lecture 35 (Landon Fraley)
P12: Information visualization 2

Week 16: 04/22

Term project presentation 1
Term project presentation 2

Last updated 01/08/2002