2003 - Computational Cartography

-Computational Cartography
Thinking with Maps and Spatial Visualizations
Winter 2003

CLICC Classroom "A" - Powell 307
Tuesdays / Thursdays 10:00 - 1:00

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READINGS:

Denis Cosgrove, "Introduction," MAPPINGS. THEORY

Edwin Hutchins, "Introduction" and "Cultural Cognition," COGNITION IN THE WILD. THEORY

Michael Batty & Paul Longley, "Size and Shape, Scale and Dimension," FRACTAL CITIES. THEORY

Paul Illman, "Air Route Traffic Control Center," THE PILOT'S AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL HANDBOOK. CASE STUDY

Scottie Barnes, "Spatial Intelligence and Iraqui Freedom," GEOSPATIAL SOLUTIONS, May 2003. NEWS

Joshua Davies, "If We Run Out of Batteries, This War Is Screwed," WIRED, June 2003. NEWS

Steven Johnson, "Reality Bytes - Imagine if SimCity wasn't Just a Game," DISCOVER, May 2003. NEWS

WEEK	TUESDAY	THURSDAY
1	April 1 Introduction to class and participants. Need BOL ID. Reader $10. Print account $10. WESTEC? Just what is a map? A spatial representation, for what? Some artifacts. Lewis Carroll. Maps as cultural things-that-think: manufacture, use, obsolescence. Beyond paper maps. Hiraldo Rivera. Getty map. Rapid prototyping. Powers of Ten. Dynamic maps. Galactic Collider. Planetary Projections. Situation maps. ATSAC. ATC. Earthquakes. Internet weather. Internet trace. Visual route. Pushing Tin. War rooms. Some simulations in C++. Building the GPS Track application.	April 3 alife.fusebox.com Map critiques... Trevor (www.waag.org/realtime), Chris (Topos), Naoko (Everest), Ryan (Interferometry), Brian (Rothenburgh). Your Website: ARPAnet, DreamWeaver, PhotoShop, CuteFTP (images) Introduction to GPS and Challenge 1. Looking ahead to Challenge 2, a Borland Application.
2	April 8 More on Websites. GPS-Track-Downloading using WayPoint File editing and Screen capture of WayPoint Plot and color visualization. Nova's "Search for Latitude." Challenge 1 due GPS Points & Tracks	April 10 I will be in at 9:00 if anyone would like extra help... Map critiques... Introduction to Borland C++ and the workings of the color visualization application. Reading: Dennis Cosgrove, "Intro to Mappings."
3	April 15 Challenge 2 due GPS visualization application Using the Borland IDE - building two applications: Chase & Traverse.	April 17 Using the Borland IDE - building a DEM visualizer from scratch. The Sluis DEM.
4	April 22 Segregation Model. Introduction to Open GL. Bitmaps. Challenge 3 due Visualizing a Digital Elevation Model	April 24 More on Borland and C++.
5	April 29 Demos of participants responses to challenge. Work up a critical review of a map of cyberspace. Read Denis Cosgrove's "Introduction" to MAPPINGS for perspectives to consider in your analysis. Martin Dodge's Cyberspace Atlas. Challenge 4 due Segregation and OpenGL	May 1 The media of computation have existed for a long time. A brief evolution of the computational media involved in Navigation... 1) paper & pencil (magnetic compass, compass, ruler, map) 2) rollers, balls, disks, gears, cams, levers, links (a lost technology) 3) silicon (Pentium chips and the like) In your projects, discover what medial technologies came before co-called "computational" maps and speculate on what technologies may follow... Some possible project topics to consider... Automobile and air traffic control. Situation maps. Control rooms. Sensor arrays... Cockpits...
6	May 6 Whose got the Borland CD-ROMs? We need to pass them around... Participant presentations: a critique of a map of cyberspace. Challenge 5 due Project pre-proposal discussions presented during class.	May 8 Passing around the Borland CD-ROMs... Car pooling logistics for Tuesday's trip to ATSAC. Videos: John F. Simon Jr., Simple Rules / Complex Behavior (SFI), Alife III, ATSAC... More useful Borland components?
7	May 13 Depart from the FLAGPOLE (between Haines & Kinsey at 9:00 a.m.) Tour of ATSAC beginning at 10:00. Map of ATSAC. ATSAC Contact Information: (213) 485-2815 Kartik Patel Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Level P4 (fourth basement) City Hall East 200 North Main	May 15 Remaining readings handed out. WIRED special issue on "The Ultimate Atlas." Tracks to/from ATSAC collected. Participant reports on situation maps... War Rooms Air Recon Selected topics on Borland components and C++ spatial algorithms. Videos: ICT Mission Rehearsal Exercise, ICT Paul Debevec... Challenge 6 due Situation Maps Presentations
8	May 20 Bring unit and all GPS cables!!! Proce55ing Examples - More Examples (Use Netscape in CLICC) Michael Chang's spatial simulations and "tools." Selected topics on Borland components and C++ spatial algorithms. Videos: , ICT Paul Debevec, STRICOM, ICT Mission Rehearsal Exercise Challenge 7 due written essay Critique and discussion of Edwin Hutchins "Cultural Cognition" with respect to a spatial management problem of your choice.	May 22 One more situation map presentation... Sand Tables... Book : Fred Egan's PERMUTATION CITY. (Can you map it?) Some thoughts on programming your projects... Tour of Visualization Portal beginning at 10:30 Recommended movie: PUSHING TIN.
9	May 27 ESRI Users' Conference, July 7-11, San Diego. (free for student volunteers). Fractal patterns of human cognition, behavior and utilization of space. See the Java Applet L-System experiments from Gary William Flake's "Computational Beauty of Nature." In the CLICC lab, Java Applets will only run under Netscape. Elsewhere, they should work under IE. Always use a lower-case "f" and not an upper-case "F." In class work on course projects. Collect Garmin GPS units, interesting tracks... Challenge 8 due written essay Critique and discussion of Michael Batty & Paul Longley's, "Size and Shape, Scale and Dimension" with respect to a settlement pattern of your choice. Fractal Cities. In preparation for Thursday's guest speaker, please read Paul Illman's "Air Route Traffic Control Center." You might also watch PUSHING TIN.	May 29 Selected topics on Borland components and C++ spatial algorithms. Confirmed: Guest lecture from Sherry Avery, LAX Tower Manager and past flight controller par excellence...
10	June 3 100 Playstation Supercomputer. ESRI Users' Conference, July 7-11, San Diego: Student one-day-only-exhibits-only free passes are available at the Users' Conference. You must present your student ID and take down these two names: James Cox (who makes these available) and Ann Marie Masangcay (who told me all this). Print out this email as evidence. The Economists Class Project presentations.	June 5 Class Project presentations.
FINALS	No Final	No Final