Virtual Reality Design for Science

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Thu 9/16   CIT #368
Introduction to Scientific
Visualization and the Cave
  • the class
  • the scientific method
  • the history of the scientific image
  • digital visualization
  • virtual reality visualization
lecture: Basic design parameters of the cave
visuals: microworlds, electron micro, fluid images, Char Davies, body without organs
readings:
 none
slides: Fritz's History of Visualization (html) (ppt)
Fritz's Fluid Flying (html)(ppt)
David's Introduction to the class (html)(ppt)
Bat Videos are here.

Out: #1 "Bring your own medium to the cave I"
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Tue 9/21  CIT #368

Introduction to the Cave, Part II

  • design paradigm for the cave: sensory perception and comprehension
  • nature and geometry
lecture: Technical issues of designing for the cave; limitations of textures, animation, etc.; tips on reading scientific papers
group crit: "Bring your own medium I" work; visualization designs
readings: Hale, Abstraction in Art and Nature

Kepes, Language of Vision

Keefe, et al., Artistic collaboration in designing vr visualizations

Cruz-Neira, et al., Surround-Screen Projection-Based Virtual Reality: The Design and Implementation of the CAVE
slides: BYOM-I sketches (html)
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Out: #2 "Bring your own medium to the cave II: Cave Sketches"
Thu 9/23  CIT #368
The Science behind Bat Flight

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Design Principles : Process and Communication

  • sketch techniques; critique and revision
  • design vocabulary, visual metaphor, and narrative
  • principles of perceptual relativity
  • qualities and dimensions of visual objects and their possible relationships to information visualization
visuals: Gestalt form, Brancusi, Pollock, natural metaphor
group crit: "Bring your own medium II" sketches/progress
readings:

Schwenk, Sensitive Chaos

Stevens, Patterns in Nature


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Tue 9/28  CAVE
visuals:
van Dyke, Schwenk, icon design, graphs
group crit: "Bring your own medium II" work
readings: Dalton, The Miracle of Flight, Introduction and Chapter I

Interrante and Grosch, Visualizing 3D Flow

van Dyke's flow images (html)

Bryson and Levit, The Virtual Windtunnel

Sobel, et al., Particle Flurries
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Out: #3 "Bring your own medium to the cave III: Cave Animations"
Thu 9/30  CIT #368

Introduction to Fluid Flow
  • features in flow and their meaning: velocity, vorticity, pressure
  • steady, unsteady, 2D, 3D, and turbulent flow
  • issues in graphing and data representation

Principles of Design: Color
visuals:
 layered design, designing in 3D, Moholy-Nagy, Porter
group crit: "Bring your own medium III" sketches
readings: Dalton, The Miracle of Flight, Chapter II

Brooks, The computer scientist as a toolsmith II

Kirby et al., Visualizing multivalued data from 2D incompressible flows using concepts from painting
slides: Fritz's flow slides

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Tue 10/5  CAVE

Group Crits of BYOM III
visuals: BYOM III designs
group crit: "Bring your own medium III" work
readings: Dalton, The Miracle of Flight, Chapter III

Hornung (ppt) (doc)

Zwimpfer (ppt)
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Out: #4 "Introduction to Color Design"
Thu 10/7  CIT #368

Causality and Narrative: Graphing Data

  • selection of data subsets; perception of subset inter-relation
  • perception of event
  • structuring sequential narrative
group crit: Color in the cave
readings: Hornung (ppt) (doc)

Zwimpfer  (ppt)

Tufte  (ppt)
In: #4
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Out: #5 "Graphing Multiple Variables"
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Tue 10/12  CIT #368

Plasticity of Visual Organization

  • image or model as an integrated entity or visual system paralleling the inter-relation of a living organism or organic system
  • spatial projection systems
  • morphology of surfaces
  • abstraction of the third dimension
  • suggestion of movement
group crit: Graphing Multiple Variables
readings: none
slides: Fritz's Metaphorical form slides
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Out: #6 "Metaphorical Form"
Thu 10/14  CIT #368

Bat Flight, by Prof. Sharon Swartz
visuals: Bauhaus, Albers, Hornung, Seurat
readings: Klee

Martinez and Block

Ware, Information Visualization: Perception for Design

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Tue 10/19  CIT #368

3D Layering, Multi-values, and Transparency

  • qualities of 3D digital
  • geon design, depth cues
  • transparency, texturing, and gradients
  • spatial relationships in data visualization
group crit: Metaphorical Form
readings: none
slides:
 Fritz's 3d models slides
In: #6
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Out: #7 "3D Modeling"
Thu 10/21  CIT #368

Interaction in VR

  • usability of virtual reality; avoidance of "simulator sickness"
  • interaction
  • the CAVE and other VR options
visuals: Aspen project, Char Davies, EVE by Jeffrey Shaw, Body without Organs, artery movie, Koyaanisqatsi
readings: Keller, P. and Keller, M. Visual Cues: Practical Data Visualization (doc)

Ware

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Tue 10/26  CAVE

Storyboarding
group crit: 3D models
readings: Wake and Warren, Design Paradigms

Hagen

Gibson, "Constancy and Invariance in Perception"

Norman

Bowman and Kruijff, "3D Interfaces"

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Out: #8 "Interaction Storyboard"
Thu 10/28  CIT #368

Intro to Final Projects

Hand in list of 5-7 project proposal topics.  Think broadly, don’t develop too much, and refer to the project handout for more details.   Give each of your proposed topics a score based on the project criteria.  Read “Immersive Virtual Reality for Scientific Visualization: A Progress Report” for some ideas on open research questions in this area.
readings:

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman:
Chapter One "The Psychopathology of Everyday Things"
                      (pp 9-28)
Chapter Four "Knowing What To Do" (pp 81-104)
Chapter Seven "User Centered Design" ( pp 187-203)

3DUser Interfaces by Doug A. Bowman, Ernst Kruijff, Joseph LaViola,Jr. & Ivan Poupyrev:
Chapter Four. 3D User Interface Input Hardware, (pp 90—121)
Chapter Five. Selection and Manipulation (pp 139-168)
Chapter Eight. System Control (pp 255-285)
Chapter Ten. Strategies for Designing and Developing 3D
                      User Interfaces (pp 331-347)

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Tue 11/2  CIT #368

Final Projects

Hand in 3 proposal concepts via e-mail by Monday morning. 1-2 paragraphs each with your own score.  We’ll put the ideas on the web Monday.  Look through the others on Monday to see who you might want to collude with.  Address all of the project goals in your development.  Refer to the project handout.  In class we will choose partners for final projects.
group crit: Interaction Storyboards
Here are images from the class
project:
 Define groups
In: #8

Final project proposals (Monday)
Thu 11/4  CIT #368

Final Projects

Here are three proposals from 2002. Look through them to get an idea of what yours should look like:
Proposal1, Proposal2, Proposal3
project: Project questions about proposals

-- Schedule Meetings with Rhetoric Fellow before Tuesday 11/9 to review proposals and practice 5 min presentations
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Tue 11/9  CIT #368
5min
Project Presentations
project: Project proposal presentations with discussion.
Project Proposals to handin and give to Rhetoric Fellow.
Thu 11/11  CIT #368


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Tue 11/16  CAVE

Final revised Project Proposal
Thu 11/18  CIT #368


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Tue 11/23  CAVE 9am!!
TRIP TO SEE THE BATS!!


Thu 11/25
No class,
Thanksgiving!
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 No class,
Thanksgiving!
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Tue 11/30  CAVE
group crit: Project progress/milestones

Thu 12/2  CAVE
group crit: Abstracts and Project progress/milestones
-- (per group) Outlines to be reviewed by Rethoric Fellow:
    Final Report
    Final Presentation
-- Schedule meetings before 12/7 to review all outlines

-- Individual Final Abstracts to Rethoric Fellow.

-- Schedule presentation practice before 12/8
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Tue 12/7  CIT #368
Class Summary
 Class Review Forms to be filled out.
-- Presentation practice scheduled

-- Abstract back from Rethoriuc Fellow
Thu 12/9  CAVE
Final Project
project: Final project and poster presentations in the cave
Project Presentations
Fri 12/10
Final Project		 none
 Final Report to Rethoric Fellow by 5pm
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Mon 12/13
Final Project		 none
 Final Report back from Rethoric Fellow by 10am
Tue 12/14
Final Project		 none
Wed 12/15
Final Project		 none
 Final Report to Rethoric Fellow by 10am
Thu 12/16
Final Project		 none
 Final Report back from Rethoric Fellow by 5pm
Fri 12/17
Final Project
 none
 Final Report Due by 5pm!!
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