DMET 702: Visualization and Animation Course Information - Faculty of Media Engineering and Technology

DMET 702 Visualization and Animation

Course Information

Abstract

This course covers the basic topics of data visualization techniques for multiple data types. It also covers the basics of animation.

Outline

- Colors
- Ray casting
- Ray tracing
- Lighting, Shading and Shadowing
- Advanced Mapping Techniques
- Volume rendering and Volume Visualization
- Surface Reconstruction
- Information Visualization
- Multi-dimensional Visualization
- High-dimensional Visualization
- Multi-resolution Visualization
- Tree Visualization
- Large-scale Visualization
- Time series Visualization
- Software Visualization
- Network Visualization
- Music Visualization
- Educational Visualization
- Interactive Visualization
- Product Visualization
- Graph Drawing
- Collision Detection
- Path Planning
- Retrieval of three-dimensional Objects
- Mesh Decomposition
- Morphing

Goals

Objectives

At the end of the course, students should be able to implement and devise varieties of visualization algorithms.

Textbooks

Colin Ware, "Information Visualization : Perception for Design," ISBN-10: 1558608192, ISBN-13: 978-1558608191, 2^nd edition 2004, Morgan Kaufmann.

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