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Lecture Schedule

- # Date Topic Reading
Week 0 0
1
Jan 7
Jan 9
Overview [Slides]
Visualization Process [Slides]
Chapter 1, VTK Book; Assignment 0, due Jan 14
How NOT to lie with visualization; Fourteen ways to say nothing with SciVis
Week 1 2 Jan 16 VTK [Slides] VTK Tutorial, Programming with VTK [Chapters 9-12]
Week 2 3
4
Jan 21
Jan 23
Data Representation [Slides]
Traditional Techniques [Slides; includes Assignment-1]
Chapter 5, VTK Book
Chapter 6, VTK Book [omit 6.4]
Week 3 5
6
Jan 28
Jan 30
Data Reconstruction: Interpolation [Slides]
Isosurfaces [Slides]

Asymptotic decider, Marching Cubes, Marching Cubes Survey; list of projects
Week 4 7
Feb 4
Feb 6
Isosurfaces [Slides]
Assignment-1 Demos
Visualization Handbook: 2.1-2.4.2.2, 4.1-4.2
Week 5 8
9
Feb 11
Feb 13
Volume Rendering [Slides]
Volume Rendering-2 [Slides]
Visualization Handbook: Chapter 7
Transfer Function Bake off
Week 6
10
Feb 18
Feb 20
Midterm
Volume Rendering-3 [Slides; includes Assignment-2]

Visualization Handbook: Chapter 7
Week 7 11 Feb 27 Data Preprocessing [Slides]
Week 8 12
13
Mar 4
Mar 6
Visualizing Spatial Information : Cartography (Neeharika Adabala, CybULab) [Slides]
Visual Analytics in Practice (Yedendra B Shrinivasan, IBM IRL)
Week 9
14
Mar 11
Mar 13
Assignment-2 Demos
High Dimensional Data [Slides]

PCA
Week 10 15 Mar 18 High Dimensional Data [Slides]
Week 11 16
17
Mar 25
Mar 27
Information Visualization [Slides]
Graph Visualization [Slides]

Graph Visualization and Navigation Survey
Week 12
18
Apr 1
Apr 3
Project Progress Presentations
Vector Field Visualization [Slides]

Notes on LIC
Survey 1, Survey 2, Survey 3
Week 13 Apr 8 Midterm
Week 14 Apr 15 Project Presentation