Computer Graphics and Visualization (Part I + II)

Ulrich Lang

Department of Economics and Computer Science, University of Cologne

homepage of author: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/ls_lang/

homepage of course (in German): http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/ls_lang/teaching/lectures/ss2005/

• Title of visualization course: Computer Graphics and Visualization (Part I + II)

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

• Objectives of the course:
  • Part I is a one semester course on 2D and 2D computer graphics and perception. Part II is also a one semester course introducing the concepts of visualization (scientific and information visualization).
  • Part I:
• perception
• output devices for graphics
• color systems
• 2D graphics
• interaction techniques
• graphical user interfaces
• 3D objects
• 3D projections
• hidden surfaces
• illumination
• scene graphs
• Part II:
• visualization
• information visualization
• visualization of scientific data
• visualization pipeline
• scientific data types
• preprocessing of data
• mapping from data to visual representations
• visualization algorithms
• volume rendering
• virtual reality

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