Introduction to scientific visualization 1, 20th of May 2013.

On 13th and 14th of May 2013 I held a series of four lectures on scientific visualization on the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The lectures were entitled as "Introduction to Scientific Visualization with Crash Courses in Postscript and POV-Ray". They were a part of the data visualization course for the students of the >> Marie Curie Initial Training Network COMPLOIDS, but they were attended also by a number of students from the University of Ljubljana.

By clicking on the arrow in the window above you will start the streaming from YouTube (sound + slides). It seems to me now that I started with the lectures somewhat sluggishly and tottery, but I "got together" in the following parts (soon to come) and offered a content which was more stable and more clear. In this part I give a fairly wide intro to visual and visualization, with emphasis on the scientific visualization. Among other things, the first part of the lectures contains:

[+] the explanation of why I almost drove over a dog on my way to work and what is the difference between the two sights shown in the images below,

[+] the examination of Kepler's illustrations of Archimedean solids and how he used shading to emphasize their three-dimensional nature (below),

[+] the explanation of importance of Galileo's artistic education for the understanding of Moon's topography (below) and why it is important to learn to see,

[+] and, finally, a short overview of Leonardo's scientific illustration (below) and explanations of reasons for which I consider him to be the "saint" of this activity.

You can also download the slides of the (all four) lectures in PDF format >> HERE (14 MB).

You can see the second hour of lectures >> HERE.

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Last updated on 20th of May 2013.