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From: sow@cad.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Re: Out of the lab, into the classroom 2nd try
Message-ID: <1779@eru.mt.luth.se>
Date: 4 Apr 91 08:47:29 GMT
References: <1991Apr2.202227.13796@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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In article <1991Apr2.202227.13796@agate.berkeley.edu> andyr@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (Andy Rose) writes:
|(I posted this once, but didn't see it so here it is again.)
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|What coursework is appropriate for this subject?
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|Is anyone teaching or planning to teach a class in visualization? What
|text to use? What is the course called?  

You should give ALL students a basic course i computer graphics so
they understand some of the bacic graphics. But I dont think it is
good to give a course in visualization. The visualization stuff must
be integrated in the other courses where they belong as a tool. Visualization
is a tool like the calculator on your desk. 

I dont think it is possible to give a course in visualization without
some "real" applications where the students understand the application.

This discussion of visualization specialists is the same as we has
in the mechanical engineering. Should the designers do some finite
element analysis or should they ship it to the FEA specialist. Now
we got a new group the visualization specialist he gots the results from
the FEA guy. Guess how productive this is? No we have to see a lot of
this stuff as just tools. That should be easy to use.

It is not impressing that a lot of labs is doing research in the 
visualization area. Isn't it a special NSF program in visualization?
How was is BEFORE this program? Research organisations have to do
work where they can get some foundings. Dont misunderstand this a lot
of labs is doing a good impressing work.

Sven-Ove Westberg, CAD, University of Lulea, S-951 87 Lulea, Sweden.
Internet: sow@cad.luth.se