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Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Assignment 0: Inspirational Visualization Images due Tuesday Aug 31 @ 5pm		Sep 1, Lecture 1: Introduction & VTK Basics & Transformations
Monday Sep 6, No classes Assignment 1: 3D Diagram of Environment or Object due Tuesday Sep 7 @ 5pm README.txt (template)	Sep 7, Readings: pick one "Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe: Selecting the Right Graph for Your Message" Stephen Few, 2004 "Automating the design of graphical presentations of relational information" Jock Mackinlay, 1986 (alternate link) "Designing Effective Step-By-Step Assembly Instructions" Agrawala et al., 2003	Sep 8, Lecture 2: VTK Graphs, CMake, & Git
Sep 13, Assignment 2: Visualize a Network due @ 11:59pm README.txt (template)	Sep 14, Readings: pick one "Graph drawing by force-directed placement", Fruchterman & Reingold, 1991 "Heapviz: Interactive Heap Visualization for Program Understanding and Debugging" Aftandilian, Kelley, Gramazio, Ricci, Su, & Guyer, 2010	Sep 15, Lecture 3: Interaction & Picking
Sep 20, Readings: pick one comments due on LMS Monday@11:59pm "Focus Plus Context Screens: Combining Display Technology with Visualization", Baudisch, Good, & Stewart, 2001 "Visualization of Exception Handling Constructs to Support Program Understanding" Shah, Gorg, & Harrod, 2008	Sep 21, Assignment 3: Interaction with a Process due Tuesday@11:59pm README.txt (template)	Sep 22, Lecture 4: Volume Visualization
Sep 27, Readings: pick one comments due on LMS Monday @ 11:59pm A survey of algorithms for volume visualization, T. Todd Elvins, 1992 (alternate link) Hardware-Accelerated Volume Rendering, Pfister, 2004	Sep 28, Assignment 4: Streamlines, Isosurfaces, Volume Rendering, and Paraview due @ 11:59pm README.txt (template) sample paraview datasets sample vtk datasets	Sep 29, Lecture 5: Spatial Data Structures
Oct 4, Readings: pick one QSplat: A Multiresolution Point Rendering System for Large Meshes, Rusinkiewicz & Levoy, 2000 Tree visualization with Tree-maps: A 2-d space-filling approach, Ben Shneiderman, 1991	Oct 5, Assignment 5: Spatial Acceleration Data Structures due @ 11:59pm README.txt (template) desk.vtp bunny.vtp	Oct 6, Lecture 6: Final Project Brainstorming
Monday Oct 11, No classes	Oct 12, Monday schedule Assignment 6: Final Project Proposal due @ 11:59pm	Oct 13, Lecture 7: High Dimensional Data
Oct 18, Readings: pick one "The eyes have it: A task by data type taxonomy for information", Schneiderman, 1996 (alternate link) "Quantitative Texton Sequences for Legible Bivariate Maps" Colin Ware, 2009 (alternate link)	Oct 19, Assignment 7: High Dimensional Data due@11:59pm	Oct 20, Lecture 8: Visual Debugging
Oct 25, Readings: pick one "Rendering Effective Route Maps: Improving Usability Through Generalization" Agrawala & Stolte, SIGGRAPH 2001 "Mastering map scale: balancing workloads using display and geometry change in multi-scale mapping", Brewer & Buttenfield, Geoinformatica 2009	Oct 26, Assignment 8: Final Project Progress Report 1 due @ 11:59pm	Oct 27, Lecture 9: Final Progress Progress Reports Discussion
Nov 1, Readings:	Nov 2, Assignment 9: Final Project Progress Report 2 due @ 11:59pm	Nov 3, Lecture 10: Simplification & Subdivision
Nov 8, Readings:	Nov 9, Assignment 10: Final Project Preliminary Presentation due @ 11:59pm	Nov 10, Lecture 11: Final Project Preliminary Presentations
Nov 15, Readings:	Nov 16, Assignment 11: due @ 11:59pm	Nov 17, Lecture 12:
Nov 22-23 EMPAC Studio 2 reservation begins		Nov 24, No classes	Nov 25, No classes	Nov 26, No classes
Nov 29-Dec 3 EMPAC Studio 2 reservation Final Project Work
Dec 6-Dec 10 EMPAC Studio 2 reservation Final Project Presentations Friday Dec 10 is the last day of classes
		Dec 15-17 RPI Final Exams (no final exam for Intro to Visualization)
Dec 20-21 RPI Final Exams (no final exam for Intro to Visualization)