spencer@eecs.umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas) (02/20/91)
I've got the charter to create a new course in "Scientific Visualization" for the engineering college here at the U of Michigan. Of course, any course needs a textbook. So, I'm soliciting your opinions. What do you think would be a good book for such a course. The course will be an upper level/graduate course for "generic engineers" (i.e., NOT computer scientists). The Tufte books (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and Envisioning Information) have lots of good stuff, but also don't touch on current computer graphics techniques at all. A friend recommended Kappraff: Connections - The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science, but I haven't gotten a copy yet (the bookstore was out of it). Cleveland's The Elements of Graphing Data is also good for certain things, but not for the whole course. Help! Please send mail, I'll summarize to the net. -- =Spencer W. Thomas EECS Dept, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 spencer@eecs.umich.edu 313-936-2616 (8-6 E[SD]T M-F)