HOME PAGE: ENG 503: Scientific Visualization and Information Architecture

Instructor: John P. Boyd
email: jpboyd@umich.edu
phone: (734) 764-3338
FAX: (734) 764-5137
Office: 1535 Space Physics Bldg. (east wing, first floor)

Text: Lecture notes, typeset in Latex, which will be passed out in chapters.
Chapters will also be available as links from this homepage to Adobe .pdf files.


  • Engineering 503 Course Announcement: Scientific Visualization and Information Architecture



  • Course Notes: Title Page and Table of Contents (.pdf file, 0.052 MB)



  • Course Notes: Chapter 1: How to Graph Badly (.pdf file, 0.480 MB)


  • Course Notes: Chapter 2:The Gospel Accoding to Tufte (.pdf file, 3.5MB)


  • Course Notes: Chapter 3: Axis Magic (.pdf file, 0.371 MB)


  • Course Notes: Chapter 4: Contour Plots (.pdf file, 1.4MB)


  • Course Notes: Chapter 5: Mesh Plots (.pdf file, 1.MB)


  • Course Notes: Chapter 6: Vector or Arrow Plots (.pdf file, 0.8MB)


  • Course Notes: Chapter 7: Drawing (.pdf file, 1.8MB)


  • Course Notes: Chapter 8: Fonts (.pdf file, 0.2MB)


  • Course Notes: Chapter 9: Scanning (.pdf file, .11MB)


  • Course Notes: Chapter 10: Halftones (.pdf file, .3MB)


  • Course Notes: Chapter 11:Lighting (.pdf file, .3MB)


  • Course Notes: Chapter 12: Color Models (.pdf file, .06MB)


  • Course Notes: Chapter 13: Image Processing and Photoshop (.pdf file, .7MB)


  • Course Notes: Chapter 14: Animation and Video (.pdf file, .4MB)


  • Course Notes: Chapter 15: Scientific GUIs (.pdf file, .4MB)

  • Course Notes: Chapter 16: Fine Arts (.pdf file, .5MB)

  • Course Notes: Chapter 17: Archetypes and Lineages (.pdf file, 1.0MB)

  • Course Notes: Chapter 18: Three-Dimensional Graphics (.pdf file, .7MB)

  • Course Notes: Glossary & References (.pdf file, .1MB)

  • Course Notes: Drawing Scan File (.eps [Mac preview] file, 0.056MB)

  • Photoshop Homework File: Jupiter Great Red Spot


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  • Photoshop Homework: Saturnspot.psd File


  • Photoshop Homework: Neptune2spots.psd