Winter Semester 2013/2014

Announcements

The second oral exam is scheduled for April 8, 2014 (Tuesday).
  • During the exam, each student will be questioned individually for at least 22 minutes.
  • The exam will take place in the MPII building, Campus E1.4, Room 209a
  • Please be there on time. We are on a very tight schedule.
Start time of the exam Student
10:00 Bertel, Tobias
10:30 Bhamborae, Mayur J
11:00 Flotho, Philipp
11:30 Heidarian, Hamid Reza
12:00
12:30 Hulea, Razvan
13:00 Kardoost, Amirhossein
13:30 Korkmaz, Semih
14:00 Tanuadji, Maureen
14:30 Sinha, Saptarshi Neil
The first oral exam is scheduled for February 18, 2014 (Tuesday).
  • During the exam, each student will be questioned individually for at least 22 minutes.
  • The exam will take place in the MPII building, Campus E1.4, Room 210
  • Please be there on time. We are on a very tight schedule.
Start time of the exam Student
10:00 Arabadzhiyska, Elena
10:30 Bogachev, Sviat
11:00 Chakrabarti, Kaustuv
11:30 Feit, Anna
12:00 Insafutdinov, Eldar
12:30 Mehta, Dushyant
13:00 Mercado, Pedro
13:30 Prudat, Tanguy
14:00 Sinha, Saptarshi Neil
14:30 Vedzeneyeu, Nikita
15:00 Ziesche, Florian
15:30 Saikia, Himangshu
16:00 Palmas, Gregorio
16:30 Wang, Zhongjie
17:00 Levinkov, Evgeny

The oral exams will be on February 18 and April 8.

Our christmas lecture on Dec 16 will be in Room 019.

The first assignment is available (see the download link above). Note that you find the simple GeoX-Experiment from the class there as well.

The first lecture will be on Monday, October 21.

This page will be updated during the semester.

Overview

The focus of this introductory course is on discussing efficient techniques to visually represent large-scale data sets from simulation and measurement. Starting with a brief introduction on the data generation processes the visualization pipeline, data structures, mapping techniques and special rendering techniques for scientific data will be discussed. Various examples will be given to outline the benefits of visualization techniques in practical applications.

See some visualizations for yourself (these videos have been created with Amira by me and my colleagues at Zuse Institute Berlin):

Course topics:

Schedule

Schedule for the lectures and tutorials.

Date (Mondays) Tutorial Lecture Assignments out
Oct 21, 2013 Lecture #1
Oct 28, 2013 Tutorial #0 Lecture #2 Assignment #1: practice
Nov 4, 2013 Interviews #1 Lecture #3 Assignment #2: theory
Nov 11, 2013 Tutorial #2 Lecture #4 Assignment #3: practice
Nov 18, 2013 Interviews #3 Lecture #5 Assignment #4: theory
Nov 25, 2013 Tutorial #4 Lecture #6 Assignment #5: practice
Dec 2, 2013 Interviews #5 Lecture #7 Assignment #6: theory
Dec 9, 2013 Tutorial #6 Lecture #8 Assignment #7: practice
Dec 16, 2013 Interviews #7 Lecture #9
Dec 23, 2013 Happy Holidays
Dec 30, 2013
Jan 6, 2013 Lecture #10 Assignment #8: theory
Jan 13, 2013 Tutorial #8 Lecture #11 Assignment #9: practice
Jan 20, 2013 Interviews #9 Lecture #12 Assignment #10: theory
Jan 27, 2013 Tutorial #10 Lecture #13
Feb 3, 2013 Lecture #14

Software

GeoX is our programing framework for the practical tutorials. The software is open source (GPL2).

Expected Work

The course is suitable for MS students. Familiarity with basic computer graphics (or motivation to learn this fast) is desirable. Assessment is based on weekly assignments and an oral exam at the end of the semester.

Assignments

To be admitted to the exam, you need to have

  • Turned in 100% of all homework assignments. Yes, you need to work on all assignments.
  • Received at least 50% of all homework points.

Oral Exam

  • 30 min on one of these dates:
    • February 18
    • April 8

Literature

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