Visual Thinking/Visual Computing

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This page in progress. Last updated Feb. 18.

Take-Home Assignments

Assignment	Start Date	Due Date	Critique Date	Results On-Line
Make Your Own Car Ad >>		Feb 15	Feb. 17	>>
Business Card Self-Portraits >>	March 4	March 10	March 15	>>
Bill Seaman questions >>	March 22	March 24	N/A
Fine Art Modern Landscape project >>	March 22	April 12	April 14	>>
Field Integration Project >>	April 12	April 19	N/A	>>
Final Projects >>	Overview: April 19 Proposal due: April 26	Choose area by: April 26 Projects due: May 10	Friday, May 13 9am-12pm

Readings

Assignment	Start Date	Due Date	Links
Readings on iconoclasm		Feb 3	>>
[Rose 2001] Introduction and Chapter 1: Researching Visual Materials, pp.1-32.		Feb. 3
[Rose 2001] Chapter 4: Semiology, pp.69-99.		Feb. 8
[Hoffman 1998] Chapter 1: A Creative Genius for Vision and Chapter 2: Inflating an Artist's Sketch [rules 1-10], pp. 1-46.		Feb 15
[Hoffman 1998] Chapter 3: The Invisible Surface that Glows [rules 11-13], pp. 47-77.		Feb 17
[Williams 2003] All Chapters		Feb. 24
C.V.A.: Chapter 2: Digital Painting and Photoediting, and 2D Raster Graphics, Sections 2.1 and 2.2. pp. 38-83,		March 1
Chapter 4: Digital Design and Layout-2D Geometric Graphics, pp.120-155		March 3
[Spalter 1999]. Chapter 7: Building 3D Worlds, pp. 212-256		March 8
[Spalter 1999]Chapter 8: Rendering 3D Worlds, pp. 257-296		March 10
[Rose 2001] Chapter two: The Good Eye and Chapter three: Content Analysis, pp. 54-99 [Spalter 1999]Chapter one: A Brief History pp. 1-36		March 22

In-Class Exercises

Exercises	Associated Lectures	Date	Results On-Line
The Reality of Photographs >>	Power of Images	Feb. 1
Visual Memory Exercise >>	Power of Images	Feb . 1
Pop-outs (parallel visual processing) >>	Perception	Feb. 15
Disassembling a face (invariance) >>	Perception	Feb. 15
The depth of realism (depth cues) >>	Perception	Feb. 15
Automatic birds (invariance and surface types) >>	Perception	Feb. 15
Pre-instruction drawing of hand >> Line styles >> Upside-down drawing >> Non-dominant hand drawing >> Rapid drawing >> Blind contour drawing >> Negative space drawing >> Post-instruction drawing of hand >>	Perception/Design	Feb 24
GTT Brush "Lab" >> Exploratories Sampling applet >> GTT Filter exploration >> Exploratories Filter Shape applet >>	2D Computer Graphics	March 1
GTT 2D Geometric Inspection >> Exploratories Spline applet >> Exploratories Nyquist applet >> Exploratories Transformation Game >>	2D Computer Graphics	March 3
GTT 3D Projects	3D Computer Graphics	March 8, 10

Lectures by Anne or Andy

Lecture Title	Date	Slides On-Line
The Power of Images: An Overview of Visual History and Theory	Jan. 27, Feb. 1	Part 1 >> Part 2 >>
Overview of Visual Research Methods	Feb 3	>>
Theory: Looking at and "Reading" Visual Materials	Feb. 8	>>
Introduction to Vision Science and Perception	Feb. 15, 17 and 24	Part 1 >> Part 2 >> Part 3 (perception and drawing) >>
Design Concepts	Feb. 24	>>
2D Computer Graphics Concepts	March 1, 3	Part 1, Raster Graphics >> Part 2, Geometric Graphics >>
3D Computer Graphics Concepts	March 8, 10	Part 1, Modeling >> Part 2, Rendering >>
The Computer in the Fine Arts	March 22	>>
Color: A Multidisciplinary Visual Field	April 19	>>

Guest Lectures

Guest Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
Jeff Beall short bio	Feb. 10	The Making of Shrek 2
Jaron Lanier Short bio	March 17	Art and Technology in Hollywood
Bill Seaman Short bio	March 24	The RISD Digital Media Program
James Faure Walker Short bio	April 5	The Floating Window
David Laidlaw short bio	April 7	Medical Scientific Visualization at Brown
Fulvio Domini	April 12	Motion from Optical Flow
Phil Davis Short bio	April 21	The Role of Visual Communication in Math, Science, and Engineering
James Joaquin Short bio	April 28	The New Image Economy

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