louie@seismo.unr.eduhttp://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/vis/intro.html
Lectures are on Wednesdays from 3:00 until 4:00 or 5:00 in LMR 353. Some of the Workshops may be held in the Seismology Sun workstation lab, on the third floor of the LME building in room 320. Workshop participants will receive class accounts for use in the lab, or other facilities to be used. Other events will be announced. Everyone is welcome at all sessions.
Grading: Students who just want to sit in on the talks and workshops will receive one credit and a grade based on attendance. To get two or three credits, you would have to work on a visualization project. This would involve some application of the concepts discussed in the seminar to develop a detailed visualization example, probably in cooperation with a research project at UNR. The result of your project would be a poster or video presentation, or a live demonstration; in addition you would turn in a 5-10 page project report plus all software you develop, fully documented. Your grade would be based on your presentation, your report, and an evaluation from any research advisor you collaborate with. Please discuss project topics with the coordinator no later than the first week of the semester.
Each presenter will contribute to a resource of three data bases.
These resources will be available on reserve in the Mines Library (lower
floor of Getchell Library), via anonymous
ftp from
quake.seismo.unr.edu (134.197.33.40) in the vis
directory, and by using World Wide Web interfaces (e.g.: Mosaic, Lynx)
at the URL
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/vis/index.html.
These sites will contain PostScript versions of a bibliography, a
list of software vendors and ftp sites, and the lecture viewgraphs and
outlines.
Students with WWW home pages are R. Brigham, D. Herring, and G Shields.
In the schedule below you can click on the topics for which a WWW page is available:
Date Topic Instructors Jan. 25 Overview and Visualization Concepts J. Louie2-D Visualization and Publication Feb. 1 Postscript Concepts J. Louie 8 Postscript Workshop (in LME 320) J. Louie 15 World-Wide Web Tools (in LME 320) J. Louie 22 Color and Scalar Fields (in LME 320) J. Louie
Animation Mar. 1 Animation of Scalar Fields (in LME 320) J. Louie 8 3-D Modeling and Animation J. Louie 15 Video Preparation Workshop (in LME 315) J. Louie 22 (Spring Break) 29 Image Processing (in LME 320) K. Smith
3-D Visualization Apr. 5 Smooth Scalar Fields and Isosurfaces J. Louie 12 Rough Scalar Fields and Transparency J. Louie 19 Data Visualizer Workshop S. Wheatcraft 26 Animation with Data Visualizer S. Wheatcraft
May 3 Project Presentation T. Nguyen Flow Visual. in Part. Satur. Soils S. Tyler