Special Topics -- Computer Graphics

MAT 5932-01 (Currently listed for MW 3:35-4:50 but will meet a few minutes later (perhaps as many as 25 minutes).)

Yes computer graphics! This graduate course is designed for Mathematicians and will spend alot of time `in the lab' using some of the graphical packages owned by the department. The theme will be 3 Dimensional graphics. We will look at 3-D viewing from a number of different viewpoints. For example, Iris 3-D viewers (based on open Inventor/Explorer), scientific visualation packages (Sci-An), geometry packages (Geoview), 3D ploting in Mathematica, Maple and Matlab, with a bit of computer graphics theory and a dash of computational geometry to keep the good doctor happy.

The textbook, "An Introduction to Computer Graphics Concepts, from Pixels to Pictures" is a good "executive level" dictionary of graphics concepts at an a "graduate student level" price of $22.

Prerequisites: Graduate Standing in Mathematics or permission of the instructor (Bellenot, email bellenot-at-math-dot-fsu-dot-edu)