CIS 788.14Q Scientific Visualization systems and techniques

Instructor: Han-Wei Shen (hwshen@cis.ohio-state.edu)

Credit: 3

Prerequisite: CIS694G/CIS681 or instructor permission

Class: MWF 8:30 – 9:18 pm DL 266

Office hours: MW: 1:30-2:30pm

Web: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~hwshen/788

What is this class about?

Textbook

• No textbook for this class – papers will be handed out in class• Information sources:

IEEE Visualization publications ACM SIGGRAPH publications Eurographics publications Online technical reports (nVIDIA, ATI, …)

Class Objectives

• Programmable hardware features • Fundamental visualization algorithms

Software and “hardware” implementation• Process of scientific visualization • State-of-the-art in visualization research • Have fun!

Grading

- 3 Labs: 40% - Class presentation: 10 % - Take home final / Term paper: 20% - Final Project: 40%

All done in groups !!

Working Groups

Find your group in the beginning of quarter (before 10/2)

3 people/group – mix of senior and junior students You will do all the work together Same grade for the group members

About the Labs

• Three group labs Simple pixel/texture shader programs (week 2) Hardware based volume rendering on PCs (week 4) Particle tracing for flow visualization (Week 7)

• Equipment: your own PCs or use the PCs in DL 680 with

GeForce 4 cards

About the final project

• Project proposal and work plan (week 6): 5% • Research/Implementation diary: 5%• Final results: 30%

- Implement a published algorithm - Develop a new algorithm- Solve a open problem

What to do:

Grading:

Class Presentation

• Each group will present one or multiple papers on specific subjects• Emphasis on material preparations (slides, demos, etc) and your presentation skills • 10% of your final grade

Class at a Glance

Week1 Overview of general graphics pipeline

Week2 Programmable hardware features (lab1)

Week3 Volume rendering

Week4 Volume rendering (lab2)

Week5 Unstructured grid / isosurface

Week6 Isosurface (final project proposal)

Week7 Vector field visualization

Week8 Vector field visualization

Week9 Advanced Topics

Week10 Project presentations

Class at a Glance

Any Questions?