Week in Vis 15 Mon, Dec 9-Fri, Dec 13
- Mon, Dec 9 – SciVis
- Wed, Dec 11 – ICE:wrap up (how you spent your time)
- Reading: Week 15 – SciVis (due Mon, Dec 9 – preferably before class)
Online Discussion 15: SciVis(first post due Tue, Dec 10)no online discussion this week- Design Challenge: DC3: Handin (due Wed, Dec 11 – really Saturday/Sunday)
- Quiz 15: SciVis (due Fri, Dec 13)
- Seek and Find 15: SciVis (due Fri, Dec 13)
Please do a course evaluation! (https://aefis.wisc.edu/). It really does help me! (and it will help future students in the class)
We’ve made it to the last week. You’re probably focused on DC3, but we’ll have 2 last things to do in class. On Monday, I’ll talk about “scientific visualization” – which is a huge set of topics that probably could be a separate course. I just don’t feel like you can have a vis class without discussing them at all. On Wednesday, we’ll have one last ICE – that we’ll use as a way to reflect on everything we’ve done this semester.
Beyond this week… if you are interested in doing more Vis stuff, talk to me. There are opportunities for projects in the future.
Readings for the Week
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. But, this late in the class, you’re probably burned out from reading anyway.
- Arrange Spatial Data (Chapter 8 from Munzner’s Visualization Analysis & Design) (Munzner-08-ArrangeSpatial.pdf 1.0mb)
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. (chapter7-volumerendering.pdf 0.7mb)