- - Computational Cartography - Winter 2002

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Calendar
MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY

WEEK 1

January 7

Extended introductions and demonstrations of participants' software.

Jeff Shih's simulations.
Dave Neibuhr's simulations.

Background reading:
Gessler, "Computational Models of Cultural Evolution."

January 9

Extended introductions and demonstrations of participants' software.

Jeff Shih's simulations.
Dave Neibuhr's simulations.

Background reading:
Zlatev, "Why Epigenetic Robots?"

January 11

Search for Latitude
- finding where you are on earth with time
- segway to GPS
- distribute Garmin GPS-12 units

Background reading:
Bird, "The Evolved Radio."

Challenge 1 - Triangle

WEEK 2

January 14

Borland C++ Rapid Application Development platform. Beginning a triangle application. Programming on the fly: forms, buttons, objects, components, properties & variables.

Required text:
C++ GUIDE.

January 16

Borland C++ Rapid Application Development. Finishing the application: debugging on the fly, functions, events, logic, icons & stand-alone executables.

Recommended texts:
Hillis, PATTERN IN THE STONE.
Epstein, GROWING ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES.

January 18

Borland C++ Rapid Application Development. Tidying up: labels, documentation, comments, probes, other components & color space (cube & ramp).

The cultural context of maps...
Lewis Carroll...

Required text:
Dodge, ATLAS OF CYBERSPACE.

Challenge 2 - GPS Track

WEEK 3

January 21

Holiday
Martin Luther King, Jr., Day

January 23

ATSAC schedule field trip: a Tuesday.

Triangle applications:

  • Demos
  • Discussion

Specifying Color:

  • Color Cube
  • RGB Values
  • Color Ramp

Borland Help

January 25

Triangle revisited.

Jeff's question revisited:
sides = 180 - (360 / n)

Traversing: A Windows application
Air, Sea and Land

Downloading your GPS data to a file using WayPoint software. Using SynEdit to examine a file structure. Importing a file into a GPS track visualizing application.

Challenge 3 - Visualizing Cyberspace

WEEK 4

January 28

Waypoint App debugged.
Devices of Wonder (this is the last week)
3d Triangle 3d Life

Computer Science Seminars

Cosgrove, "Mapping Meaning."
"Island of Research," from SCIENCE GAME.

National Geographic astronomical maps.

Measurement:

  • Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, Ratio scales.
  • Precision, Repeatability and Accuracy

Dimensions of Information

  • Space: x, y, z ...; Time: t...
  • Color, size, shape, texture, fon

January 30

CLICC Classroom "A" Not Available.
We meet in the Visualization Portal.
Demonstrations are hosted by Pieter Lechner, Visualization Portal Manager.

  • California satellite imagery.
  • Westside buildings and streets.
  • Westside photography on topography.
  • UCLA virtual campus tour.
  • Nanotechnology.
  • Data visualization.
  • Tornado simulation.
  • Colliseum.
  • Roman forum.

February 1

Programming review:

  • PhotoShop
  • File Formats
  • FTP

New Resources

Challenge 4- Visualizing Data

Saturday at 9:30 a.m. I will swing by the flagpole to pick up anyone who wants to go to the Getty Devices of Wonder exhibition.

WEEK 5

February 4

Dave on Reconfigurable Robots:
Wei-Min Shen

Getty Map for the Blind

Programming review:

February 6

A Tufte Visualization

Online Maps

February 8

Some modifications:

  • Jeff's Polygons
  • Mika's Triangle

Map presentations by participants.

Intro to topographic maps.

  • Compass & Alidade
  • Traverse
  • Triangulation.
  • Stereopsis.

Challenge 5 - Project Prepresentation

WEEK 6

February 11

Paper map presentations by participants.

  • Dave
  • Jon
  • Mika

Schedule ATSAC tour for Feb 14?

Introduction to Topographic Maps, compass and alidade..

February 13

Mika's Planets Challenge
GPS Tracks Revisited

Cyber and paper map presentations by participants.

Topographic Maps continued.

February 15

Cyber and Paper map presentations.
Project Pre-Presentations.

  • Mika
  • Dave
  • Jeff

Triangulation & Topographic Maps

  • UTM Grid North
  • Magnetic North
  • True North

Challenge 6- Topographic Maps - Triangulation

WEEK 7

February 18

Holiday
Presidents' Day

February 20

CLICC Classroom "A" Not Available.

We are guests in Susanne Lohmann's class in Political Science simulations.

 

February 22

Rooftop Field Work - Topographic Maps
Location & Triangulation.

Meet on the roof of Math Science - 9th Floor.

Challenge 7 - Stereoscopy

WEEK 8

February 25

Jon

Topographic Maps concluded.

3D and Stereo visualization:

February 27

GPS Revisited - Checking the data...

Stereo:

  • USGS - search for stereo
  • Analglyphs - Stereo
  • B & W, Color Demonstrations

Noon until 2:00:
Workshop in Simulation and Visualization for anyone who is interested.

March 1

Windows Source Code Judgement

Magnetism - World - Paleo -Model - Reversals - Sequence

Holography - 3D Geographic Spaces
Laser - Daylight - Multiplex

Rapid Prototyping - 3D Physical Models
Westec - Last Day for Free Exhibits Pass
Techniques - Architectural - Handmade - Laser - Topographic

Challenge 8 - Sluis DEM

WEEK 9

March 4

Laser-scanned topographic data at Sluis:

  • A .jpg shaded image
  • A topographic Windows application?
  • An analglyphic DEM

March 6

Analglyphic DEM

  • Red + Cyan = White.
  • Topographic Profiles.

Video on Artificial Life

  • VPRO Amsterdam - 90 minutes

March 8

Video on Artificial Life

  • Nightline - 50 minutes

 

WEEK 10

March 11

DEM

  • Grayscale
  • Shading

Some interactive mapping tools among:

  • DreamWeaver ImageMaps
  • Photoshop Animated .gifs
  • OpenGL (DirectX)
  • Solar System

Dynamic Maps

  • Situation Rooms
  • Air Traffic Control
  • Automated Traffic Control

ATSAC Tour

March 13

Party Time...

Muffins & Coffee

The Winner: Where is the Getty?

Mail from the FAA...

Project Presentations

  • Mika
  • Jeff
  • Dave?

Evaluations...

Tuesday 10-11

March 15

No Class

FINALS WEEK

March 18

Association of American Geographers Meeting, Los Angeles, March 19-23.

no final

March 20

Association of American Geographers Meeting, Los Angeles, March 19-23.

no final

March 22

Association of American Geographers Meeting, Los Angeles, March 19-23.

no final
quarter ends

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