Initial Posting Due: Tue, Dec 05 at (Canvas Link)
Readings
On 3D Perception…
- Getting The Information: Space and Time (Chapter 5 of Visual Thinking for Design) (Ware-5-GettingInfo.pdf 3.8 mb)
- Todd, J. T. (2004). The visual perception of 3D shape. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(3), 115–121. (pdf on canvas) (doi)
For Scientific Visualization, there is nothing I know of that is at the right level of detail. The chapter from Munzner will give you some of the basic concepts.
- Arrange Spatial Data (Chapter 8 from Munzner’s Visualization Analysis & Design) (Munzner-08-ArrangeSpatial.pdf 1.0 mb)
Optional
This is the closest thing I can find to a survey paper about volume rendering (which is probably the most common case). The front parts cover the basics, but it quickly gets into more detail than you probably want.
- Arie Kaufman and Klaus Mueller. Overview of Volume Rendering. Chapter 7 of The Visualization Handbook (Hansen and Johnson eds), Academic Press, 2005. (pdf on Canvas)
More resources on these topics are on the readings page from last semester. All of the links should work for you, except for the Illustration handbook (which may be my favorite):
This is a chapter of the “Guild Handbook of Illustration” that helps illustrators learn to convey 3D shape in their drawings. A lot of it is about how to think about how light helps you perceive shape (and it does so with fabulous examples). When they start talking about the actual techniques (like how to use charcoal to make the pictures), it’s a little less interesting.
- Light on Form (Chapter 4 of the Guild Handbook of Illustration) by Jessup and Mascaro. Canvas
Online Discussion
Initial Posting Due: Tue, Dec 05 at (Canvas Link)
There are a lot of topics that we’ll go over quickly this week. And I suspect people will be focused on Design Challenge 3, so we’ll have a little less to discuss. And the readings have been paired down to a bare minimum.
The question I was going to ask was: what can artists/visualization makers do to better convey 3D in 2D pictures?
