COURSE CONTENTS AND STRUCTURE

• Visualization is a big area, but we focus on the following:
  1. large-scale visualization on the internet,
  2. volumetric visualization, and
  3. geographic information system on the net.
  Computer graphics is the technical basis for visualization, but we do not require this as prerequisite: we will introduce computer graphics via the OpenGL framework. In our topics above, we emphasize the internet issues. Hence we introduce some networking material.
• This is a hands-on course in which there is a final programming project. You can do this project in groups of 1-3. One of the projects is to write a visualization system for the internet in OpenGL/GLUT.
• Grade: 25% homework, 10% class participation, 65% final project.
• The material covered is close to current visualization research projects at NYU.