CS 526 Week 1

Its hard to compare an analog medium like film to a digital one but you can roughly say that digital 4K (roughly 4096 x 2160 pixels) is equivalent to 35mm film, depending a lot on the quality of the film stock and the shooting conditions, which is why SIGGRAPH had people giving talks on computer graphics with slides through much of the 1990s.

a couple years later the team came back again and we did similar work in the cave as shown below, now integrating multiple monoscopic and stereo windows, and including head and hand tracked visuals into the mix.

We will talk more about the various types of hardware next week and the software (both middleware and application level) that drives these kinds of displays the week after that.

It is also important to have a convenient way of moving data onto the display and interacting with it once it is there so we will talk about that.

We will investigate physiological issues in terms of how people view and interact with these displays. What does it take to provide 20/20 vision? How important is audio? How much physical motion is involved when interacting or even looking at all of the data on these kinds of displays?

We will also look at people collaborating using these displays, both co-located and remote collaboration. How are these kinds of spaces shared? How do people manage both public and private information.

and to make things more interesting we will hold the class meetings, project demonstrations, and paper presentations inside one of our large format high-resolution displays, the cave2. We will be trying various configurations during the class to see what works better.

Project 1 / SAGE Tutorial / OmegaLib Tutorial

Coming Next Week

Hardware

We are going to focus on a few papers as a class during the course.

Before next class please read
The Future of the CAVE
DeFanti, T.A., et. al.
http://www.evl.uic.edu/files/pdf/future.pdf

Each person should produce a 1 page PDF file critiquing the paper including your name, the title of the paper, a short paragraph summary of the paper, a list of things you found interesting in the paper, and then what you think are the positives and negatives about the research.

In class on Tuesday everyone will use sage to drag and drop their file onto the wall and a subset of the students will be asked to talk more in depth about what you found in the paper

CS 422	User Interface Design	Focus on developing effective user interfaces	Every spring
CS 424	Visualization & Visual Analytics	Focus on visualizing and interacting with different kinds of large data sets	Every fall
CS 426	Video Game Programming	Focus on creating complete audio visual interactive (and fun) experiences	Every spring
CS 488	Computer Graphics I	Focus on the basics of how computers create images on screens, OpenGL	Every fall
CS 522	Human Computer Interaction	Focus on interaction and evaluation of interactive environments	once every other year
CS 523	Multi-Media Systems	Focus on the creation of Educational Worlds	once every other year
CS 524	Visualization & Visual Analytics II	Focus on visualizing and interacting with 3D data sets	once every other year
CS 525	GPU Programming	Focus on shaders and parallel processing	once every other year
CS 526	Computer Graphics II	Focus on current trends in computer graphics	once every other year
CS 527	Computer Animation	Focus on creating realistic motion	once every other year
CS 528	Virtual Reality	Focus on immersion	once every other year

Week 1

Administrivia / Introduction / History / OmegaLib Tutorial

Administrivia

Introduction

How this class relates to to other similar / related CS courses

History

Project 1 / SAGE Tutorial / OmegaLib Tutorial

Coming Next Week

Hardware