COURSE ORGANIZATION DETAILS

Course can be viewed in four parts

(A) Brief introduction to computer graphics
-- via OpenGL.
-- aliasing, texturing
-- hierarchical models.

(B) "Active visualization"
-- CORE of the course: use of space-variant images
-- biological motivation, mathematical theory
-- wavelet-based foveation.
-- networking
-- scheduling
-- understanding a thinwire prototype

(C) GIS-on-the-net
-- GIS data sets
-- line simplification and map generalization
-- R-trees and related structures

(D) Volume Visualation
-- nature of volumetric data
-- types of volumetric projection