Visualisation (CITS4241)

Semester 2, 2007

• Summary
• Assessment
  
• Timetable for lectures, tutorials, laboratories
  
• Lecturer, tutor, and lab supervisor
• Reading materials and information sources
  
• Lecture topics and downloads
• Tutorial and laboratory exercises and project
  
• Textbook and recommended readings
  
• CITS4241 Discussion forum
  
• Lectopia recording
  

This unit provides an introduction to visualisation as applied to the disciplines of science and engineering. You will be introduced to several popular visualisation techniques and algorithms including ray-tracing, radiosity, volume rendering; texture mapping; and animation. The methods will be applied to problems as varied as meteorology, biology, architecture, structural analysis, time series analysis and computational fluid dynamics.

Prerequisite or corequisite: CITS2200 (equiv. to Data Structures and Algorithms 223)

The course consists of 13 two-hour lectures, a fortnightly tutorial, and a weekly 2-hour laboratory session (only 1 hour supervised).

Reading materials and information sources:

Lecture notes will be distributed in the lectures. Some material will be available from the unit's Home page that will maintain information about the unit's material, assessment information, and many pointers to online documentation.

• Tutorial 1 - week 3
• Tutorial 2 - week 5
• Tutorial 3 - week 7
• Open discussion on Project - week 10
• Tutorial 4 - week 12
• Open discussion on Project - week 12

• Labsheet 1 - week 3
• Labsheet 2 - week 4

• Project - week 5 (copies of green project coversheet can be collected from the CSSE Office)
• Team lists for the project are available here.
• Project development - weeks 5-12

None.

Recommended readings

	Alan H. Watt and Mark Watt: Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques : Theory and Practice, Addison-Wesley, 1992.  ISBN: 0201544121
	James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, John F. Hughes: Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Addison-Wesley, 1992.  ISBN: 0201848406
	Will Schroeder, Ken Martin, Bill Lorensen:  The visualization toolkit, Prentice-Hall PTR, 2nd Edition (or later), 1998.

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Last updated on at 00:23 on 23/07/2007 by Dr Nick Spadaccini