INTRODUCTORY LECTURE

REQUIRED TEXT:
-- Interactive computer graphics (with OpenGL)

by Edward Angel, Addison-Wesley, 1997.

-- Other Required Material.

COURSE CONTENTS AND STRUCTURE

• Visualization is a big area: we focus on a few topics.
• Computer graphics background
• Some auxilliary topics
• Programming Requirements
• The material covered is close to current visualization research projects at NYU.

COURSE ORGANIZATION

• Lecture Topics
• Grades

INTRODUCTION TO VISUALIZATION

• What is visualization?
• Applications by discipline
• Applications by technique
• History