In either case, all students will do a minimum web page summary of their class projects. During this course, there will be one guest lecturer, Dr. Scott Hendricks who will lecture on how visualization is used to study chaos and fractals. The visualization lectures demonstrate how visual tools were first used by scientists such as Galileo and others in their scientific investigations and how we can extend these time-honored principles to the computer graphics workstation. In this course, students develop an increased understanding of how to use visual tools for interpretation and analysis of large data sets where relationships between physical properties can be better understood or possibly new relationships could be discovered. Students learn how to use multimedia software to effectively communicate these research results to others.
Emphasis is placed on how to create an effective multimedia presentation.
Ron Kriz introducing his class to Scientific Visualization.