Note that the readings listed for each day should be read in preparation
for that day's class meeting. That means that you should look ahead
each week to the next class and do the reading for it before class
meets. Each assignment is due on the first meeting (Tuesday) of its listed
week, unless otherwise specified in the handout.
If you need help with an assignment,
please check out the wiki!
It's constantly being updated and has information about using CavePainting,
what to do if things go wrong, and who to contact if you can't fix stuff
yourself. If you sign up for a wiki user name using the link in the
upper-right corner, you can edit pages and create new ones to share information
with your classmates.
Another bit of useful information for you might be
the answers your classmates handed in
for questions on previous assignments.
The first class meets Thursday, September 7th at 10am in 180 George St. room 102B.
Assignment Overview
Week 1: Thurs 9/7 at 180 George St room 102B
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Introduction to Scientific Visualization and the YURT
- the class
- the scientific method
- tips on reading scientific papers
- Introduction to the YURT virtual reality environment
- Introduction to Scientific Visualization
- Introduction to Scientific Research
- the computer scientist as a toolsmith
- scientific questions at different levels
- hypothesis generation
- by Professor Stephen Gatesy
- Introduction to Natural Force and Form
- Slides
- Description
- Timeline
- Animal locomotion
- Evolutionary anatomical development
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| Visuals |
microworlds, electron micro, fluid images, Char Davies, body without organs, bat wings |
| Readings |
- Read Form, Shape and Mass Chapter 3., pp 57-85, from Abstraction in Art and Nature by Nathan Cabot Hale. Look at the images.
- Read Sensitive Chaos by Schwenk.
- Read Patterns in Nature by Peter Stevens for topics relevant to your assignment hypothesis. Also, skim the full book, which is in the Cave room (please, the book should not leave that room.)
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Week 2: Tues 9/12 at 180 George St room 102B
Week 2: Thurs 9/14 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Natural Force and Form
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| Group Crits |
Assignment 1: Ideas Sketches |
| Readings |
- Read original Cave paper. Spend about 15-30 minutes on it. This is for historical context about the Cave and to give a feel for some of the trade-offs of a Cave compared to other kinds of virtual reality environments. Concentrate on sections 1.1, 1.2, 6, and 7. Section 3 mentions some of the physical design issues that might be interesting. This paper was written in 1993, so some parts may seem out of date.
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Week 3: Tues 9/19 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Natural Force and Form
- Assignment 1 Presentation part 1
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| Group Crits |
Assignment 1: Cavepainting Drawings |
| Readings |
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Week 3: Thurs 9/21 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Natural Force and Form
- Assignment 1 Presentation part 2
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| Group Crits |
Assignment 1: Cavepainting Drawings |
| Readings |
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Week 4: Tues 9/26 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Gradients
- Gradient Tutorial: Real materials
- Gradient Tutorial: CavePainting
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Week 4: Thurs 9/28 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Gradients
- Weather map proposals
- Gradient Workshop
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Week 5: Tues 10/3 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Weather Map
- Assignment 2 Critiques part 1
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| Group Crits |
Assignment 2 |
| Readings |
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Week 5: Thurs 10/5 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Weather Map
- Assignment 2 Critiques part 2
- Introduction to dinosaur track research
- by Professor Stephen Gatesy
- Sectioning and layering of data
- mapping and elucidating volumetric structure
- interaction of surfaces and particles
- Using the VR space to investigate occluded data.
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| Group Crits |
Assignment 2 |
| Visuals |
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| Readings |
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Week 6: Tues 10/10 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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3D Visualization
- Assignment 3 Sketches and Proposals
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Week 6: Thurs 10/12 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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3D Visualization
- Workshop: investigative approaches for 3D
- CavePainting techniques for volumetric projection
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Week 7: Tues 10/17 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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3D Visualization
- Assignment 3 Critiques part 1
- with Professor Stephen Gatesy
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| Group Crits |
Assignment 3 |
| Readings |
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Week 7: Thurs 10/19 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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3D Visualization
- Assignment 3 Critiques part 2
- with Professor Stephen Gatesy
- Introduction to kinematic variation research
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- with Morgan Turner (Steve's graduate student)
- Subsurface foot and toe movement
- Motion and kinematic data
- Comparing variation in datasets
- Using VR space to visualize relationships of spatial and temporal variables
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| Group Crits |
Assignment 3 |
| Visuals |
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Week 8: Tues 10/24 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Kinematic Variation
- Assignment 4 Sketches and Proposals part 1
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Week 8: Thurs 10/26 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Kinematic Variation
- Assignment 4 Sketches and Proposals part 2
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Week 9: Tues 10/31 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Kinematics
- Assignment 4 Critiques part 1
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Week 9: Thurs 11/2 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Kinematics
- Assignment 4 Critiques part 2
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Week 10: Tues 11/7 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Final Project
- Project Proposals
- Storyboard Critiques part 1
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Week 10: Thurs 11/9 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Final Project
- Project Proposals
- Storyboard Critiques part 2
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Week 11: Tues 11/14 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Final Project
- Single Frame Assignment Critiques part 1
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Week 11: Thurs 11/16 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Final Project
- Single Frame Assignment Critiques part 2
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Week 12: Tues 11/21 - Thanksgiving (No class)
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Thanksgiving
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Week 12: Thurs 11/23 - Thanksgiving (No class)
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Thanksgiving
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Week 13: Tues 11/28 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Final Project
- Work on Projects
- In-progress Crits
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Week 13: Thurs 11/30 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Final Project
- Work on Projects
- In-progress Crits
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Week 14: Tues 12/5 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Final Project
- In-progress Crits
- Final Project Discussion
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Week 14: Thurs 12/7 at 180 George St room 102B
| Topic | Sections | Assignments |
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Final Project
- In-progress Crits
- Final Project Discussion
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Week 15: Tues 12/12 9-11am
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Final Project
- Final Project Critiques part 1
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| Group Crit |
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Week 15: Weds 12/13 9-11am
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Final Project
- Final Project Critiques part 2
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