Week 14 (Mon, Dec 4-Fri, Dec 8) – 3D and SciVis
- Mon, Dec 4 : Class: 3D
- Wed, Dec 6 : Class: SciVis
- Fri, Dec 8 : No Class:
- Reading: Week 14 – 3D and Scientific Visualization
- Discussion 14: 3D and Sci Vis (first post due 12/05)
- Seek and Find 14: 3D (due 12/08)
- Design Challenge : DC3 – Drafts (due 12/10)
Last week we talked about dimensionality reduction and graphs. We did demos for DC2 assignments (thanks again to all who participated!) And you (hopefully) all started DC3.
This week, we’ll have a completely different topic: traditional scientific visualization. However, before we get to that we need to talk about 3D. Both are topics that should be courses unto themselves. But hopefully, we can get some basics in place over the two days.
Learning Goals (for this week)
These are really two separate topics (although people often think of them together). And sadly in class, we barely get to scratch the surface of either.
- Understand how the basics of how the human visual system “sees” 3D, and the ramifications of this for visual design.
- Understand how different perceptual cues can be used to convey depth, and how they can be used in visual displays.
- Appreciate when 3D should and shouldn’t be used in visualization
And for SciVis…
- Understand the challenges of working with “traditional scientific” data sets and data types.
- Have a basic sense of the problems of field visualization (scalar fields, vector fields, …) and the basic approaches to these problems.
- Have an awareness of the basic approaches to the most common problems (2D scalar fields, 3D scalar fields (volume visualization), …)
