CURVES AND WAVES : SCIENCE AND VISUAL PLEASURE

I. the course

II. science background

• 1. science & perception
• 2. science and mathematics
• 3. machine computation
• 4. visual computation: computer graphics
• 5. scientific visualization

III. cognitive background

• 1. the notion of cognitive structure
• 2. cognitive aesthetics
• 3. cognitive theory of film: film as directed attention

IV. basics of visual modeling

• 1. shaped surfaces
• 2. procedural motion description
• 3. geometry of light

V. particulars

• 1. mathematical landscapes
• 2. flow dynamics
• 3. landscape: earth and sky
• 4. planets: terrain and atmosphere
• 5. particle control
• 6. growth from principles
• 7. the body transparent
• 8. imagined architectures