ART 2907 - Visual Imaging in the Electronic Age

(crosslisted) ARCH 3702, CS 1620, ENGRI 1620
(MQR-AAP)

Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

D. Greenberg.

Interdisciplinary survey course designed to introduce students in the creative arts, science, and engineering to the concepts of 2D and 3D digital pictorial representation and display. It is a concept course that concentrates on “why” rather than “how.” Topics include perspective representations, display technology, how television works, bandwidth concepts, digital photography, computer graphics modeling and rendering, color perception, 3D data acquisition, volumetric imaging, and historical precedents, primarily from the art world.