Visualization and Virtual Reality

José Luis Encarnação

Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt University of Technology

email: jle[at]igd.fraunhofer.de

homepage of author: http://www.igd.fhg.de/~jle/

homepage of course (in German): http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/vvss05/comments/20.133.tud

• Title of visualization course: Visualization and Virtual Reality

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

• Objectives of the course:
  • First we introduce definitions and reference models in order to classify the topics within the area of computer graphics.We will then go on to special technologies, algorithms and methods of visualization and VR.

• List topics of course:
• Introduction into the field of visualization and virtual reality
• data preprocessing
• data visualization
• data presentation
• Interaction with data
• device and computer technologies
• high performance rendering
• radiosity
• state-of-the-art visualization techniques and systems
• VR examples of application
• data interfaces and standards
• real time simulation
• collision detection
• haptics
• deformable objects
• augmented reality

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