CSCI-4972 Introduction to Visualization
Fall 2010
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There is no required textbook for the class. We will be reading relevant articles and research papers that are available online or through the RPI Libraries. Here are some relevant books you may be interested in reviewing, many of which are on reserve at the RPI Libraries.
 

The Visualization Toolkit
Kitware, Inc.

The VTK Users's Guide
Kitware, Inc.

Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
Peter Shirley
A K Peters

OpenGL Programming Guide
(the red book)

OpenGL Reference Manual
(the blue book)

Information Visualization : Perception for Design
Colin Ware
Morgan Kaufmann
2004

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward Tufte
Graphics Press
1983

Envisioning Information
Edward Tufte
Graphics Press
1990

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Edward Tufte
Graphics Press
1997

Beautiful Evidence
Edward Tufte
Graphics Press
2006