Course PM

This page contains the program of the course. Other information, such as learning outcomes, teachers, literature and examination, are in a separate course PM. This year, because of Covid, the course is given online, via live Zoom lectures (pre-recorded lectures will not be available). The Zoom-link for the online-lectures is https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/68047847071. I have sent out the password for the Zoom-lectures to your Canvas email, so please keep track of your inbox. For those of you that are not yet registered in Canvas for the course, please contact me klas.modin@chalmers.se before the course starts.

Program

In this course you will learn about various concepts, techniques, and tools for visualization of scientific data. The GU course code is MMG640. The Chalmers course code is MVE080. The schedule of the course is in TimeEdit.

Preliminary course outline (modified throughout the course):

• Course introduction (slides)
  Relevant links:
  Getting started with the Canvas learning platform
  Canvas video guides
  Python basics tutorial
  NumPy for MATLAB users
  The conda Python distribution
  Jupyter Notebook basics
• Colors and images (slides)
  Additional references:
  RGB color model
  HSV color model
• Velocity fields and streamlines in 2D (slides)
  Additional references:
  Vector fields
  Streamlines
• Basic math of 3D graphics (slides)
• 3D plots in ParaView (slides)
  Relevant links:
  Download and install ParaView
  Paraview tutorial PDF
• Animating time-dependent data in ParaView
• Blender 3D and Python scripting (slides)
  Download Blender 3D
  Blender manual pages
  Blender Fundamentals Video Tutorials
  Cheat sheet
  Blender Guru Video Tutorial
  Python scripting
• Rotations in 3D: quaternions (slides)
  Notes on quaternions
• Course project (slides)
• Visualization of particle dynamics using Blender (slides)
  PDF notes about Blender particles
  
• Take-home exam

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