Reading assignment 3 asked you to read a survey article about graphics techniques that was both pretty advanced, and also a bit out of date. (but, interestingly, not too out of date: the article really marks the beginning of the “modern era” of interactive graphics)
Based on your graphics background, you probably got something different from this article.
The goal of this assignment is to see what people got out of the article, help the lessons of it sink in, and to help plan the future conversations about graphics.
Read the article. As you read through the article, make three lists:
- A list of terms of concepts that you don’t know. Especially words that because you didn’t know them, it made it hard to understand a part of the article. If you are new to graphics this list might be long.
- A list of the concepts that sounded interesting – things that you would like to learn more about (or at least think are worth discussing in class).
- A list of the things in the article that you recognize as out of date. (If you’re up on current trends in graphics, you’ll notice that things really have changed a bit since 2006 in some ways, but not in others.)
Create these 3 lists, and send them via email to both the professor (gleicher@cs.wisc.edu) and the TA (prakriya@cs.wisc.edu) . It will be easiest for us if you put the list in the body of the email, rather than attaching it as a file.
Note: depending on your graphics background, these lists will be of different lengths. If you’re new to graphics, you’ll probably have a long list for #1, and a short (or empty list) for #3. It’s better to admit that you don’t know things: especially since it might steer the class towards teaching you them!
We’re doing the “submit by email” thing because we realize that you might not want to publically admit things that you don’t know.
You must do this assignment on, or before, Saturday, September 24th. Sometime on Sunday morning, September 25th, we’ll look at the responses and plan the next few lectures.
Note: while these lists will influence the topics in class, we probably won’t get to cover everything that everyone points out.
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