Computer-Generated Visualization

Gitta Domik

Department of Computer Science, University of Paderborn

email: domik[at]uni-paderborn.de

homepage of author: http://www.upb.de/cs/ag-domik/index_eng.html

References: Tutorial by instructor

• Title of visualization course: Computer-Generated Visualization

• Aimed at what category of students: Students of Computer Science

• Goal of lectures and lab:
  • Understanding and using concepts, methods and techniques necessary to visualize data sets. These data sets may be large, of complex structure, and representative of different disciplines. Students of other disciplines are welcome in the course. Students may bring their own data sets for the groups to work on during their lab work.

• Topics:
• History and Definitions - Data
• Data models
• Influence of user abilities and visualization aims on the expressiveness and effectiveness of graphical presentations
• Different mapping strategies from data to pictures
• visualization techniques
• User's interaction
• Visualization pipeline
• Visualization systems

• Lab:
• Hardware and Software for lab work can be chosen by students.

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