Lecturers	Chia-Yen Chen ( 50% ) Burkhard Wuensche ( 50% ) ( supervisor )
Office hours	Burkhard Wuensche: Friday 9am-11pm (City, room 490) Chia-Yen Chen: TBA (Tamaki 731.330)
Scheduled lectures	Week 6 (21st - 25th August): Monday 1.30-2.30pm & Wednesday 1.30-3.30pm in room 721-201 (Tamaki Campus) Week 7-12 (11th September - 20th October): Monday 1-2pm & Wednesday 3-4pm (Rm 279, CompSci Seminar room, City campus)
Assessment	40% assignments, 60% examination.
Exam date	28th October 2006, 2.15pm, Tamaki Campus (subject to change, please always check nDeva)
Texts recommended	The Visualization Toolkit - An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics, Will Schroeder, Ken Martin and Bill Lorensen, 3rd edition, Kitware Inc. OpenGL Architecture Review Board ( Mason Woo, Jackie Neider, Tom Davis ), OpenGL Programming Guide, Addison-Wesley. ( The 1st Edition may be available on the web, and would be sufficient. )
Description	The course teaches computer graphics and image processing algorithms for visualizing complex 3D data sets in engineering, biomedicine and other applications. Topics include the preprocessing of data, modelling and reconstruction, mapping data onto visualization icons, and visual perception. The course involves student projects and lectures.
Websites	1. The class website is http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/compsci716s2t/, containing lecture handouts, assignments, notices, etc. 2. A forum for class discussions will hopefully be soon available at http://forums.cs.auckland.ac.nz/. Use this (with discretion) to discuss issues related to coursework, by posting questions and by offering answers.