ART 170, (Course fulfills In/Out of College elective for Art majors)
ARCH 459, ComS 167, CIS 167, ENGRI 167
This is an interdisciplinary survey course designed to introduce students in the
creative arts, science and engineering to the concepts of digital pictorial
representation and display. It is a concept and theory course, which concentrates
on "why" rather than "how." Other titles for the course could be "How to Represent
3D Space with 2D Images?" or "How are Digital Pictures Acquired or Made?" or even
"How Things Work?" Topics will include: perspective representations, display
technology, how television works, bandwidth and printing concepts, digital
photography, computer graphics modeling and rendering, matting and compositing,
color perception, and historical precedents from the Renaissance to today.
Examples include the works of Brunelleschi, Bernini, Borromini, Massaccio, Albers,
Escher, Seurat, and Magritte. There will be two lectures per week, augmented by
recitations at the state-of-the-art laboratory of the Program of Computer Graphics.
Prerequisite: none
Enrollment limited: (~30 Students)
As of 10/21/05
ART 170 (Enrolled Students Only).
