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CS495 | CS Department | Princeton University

Week 2. Sept 18: 1st Project: Create and show large scale image.
Reading: Visual Explanations by Edward Tufte Chapters 1-3 & Exploding the Frame Essay by Ben Shedd
Image size for Computer Science Display Wall: 5900 pixels wide by 2900 pixels high.
Save image as JPEG [Baseline setting - Quality 4, 5 or 6]

Week 3. Sept 25: 2nd Project: Design and show 2 large scale images about 1) 4 ways to use display wall in your major area and 2) a wall image showing how the Frist Campus Center wall can be used.
Image size for Frist Campus Center Display Wall: 4096 pixels wide by 1536 pixels high. JPEG
Reading: Visual Explanations by Edward Tufte Chapters 4-7

Week 4. Oct 2:  3rd Project: Create large scale image based on Tufte reading and a 2nd image of your chossing.
Meet in CS318 - Use CS Wall dimensions 5900 x 2900

Week 5. Oct 9:  4th Project: Design and show 2 large scale images showing 1) depth and 2) prototype Interface design.  - Meet in CS318

Week 6. Oct 16: Assignment 4/5: Sound design TBD
    Reading: The Power of the Center by Rudolf Arnheim, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1988. - Meet in CS318
    Reading: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Chapter 16, by Jerry Mander, Quill, New York, 1978.

Week 7. Oct 23:  5th project: Design and show large scale image on Arnheim reading, Chapters IV, V, VI - Meet at Frist - Use Frist dimensions 4096 x 1536
    Essay due on: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Chapter 16, by Jerry Mander, Quill, New York, 1978.
    Midterm essays assigned.

Week 8. Oct 27 - Oct 31: Fall Break

Week 9. Nov 6:  6th Project: Create Short motion project - 1st draft
    Midterm Essays Due - Meet in CS318

Week 10. Nov 13:
    6th Project: Short Motion project, Take 2
    7th Project: Prototype Classroom Interface Design - Meet in CS318

Week 11. Nov 20: Reading:  At the Heart of It All: The Concept of Presence, by Matthew Lombard and Theresa Ditton.
Present Design plans for Project #8. Develop Project #8 teams. Meet in CS318

Week 12. Nov 26 - Nov 30: Thanksgiving Break Week

Week 13 Dec 4:  Design Project #8 works-in-progress presentations. - Meet in CS318

Week 14. Dec 11:   Design Review of Project #8 work.  Final Essay questions assigned. - Meet in CS318

January 13: Presentation of Projects #8 on large-scale Display Wall, and summary of final project production. - Meet in CS318

Due January 19:Final take-home essay in lieu of final exam. - By email or put in Professor Mailbox.

Grading: Design Projects 65%, Exams 20% Papers 15%

Required Reading:

Visual Explanations by Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press, Chesire, CT, 1997.
ISBN 0-9613921-2-6

Copies in Princeton University Libraries: Geosciences Lib. (SG) P93.5 .T846 1997 Architecture (UES) P93.5 .T846 1997 Rare Books (GA) Oversize P93.5 (Non-Circulating).T846 1997q Astrophysics Lib.(SO) P93.5 .T846 1997 Firestone (F) P93.5 .T846 1997

The Power of the Center by Rudolf Arnheim, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1988
ISBN: 0-520-04426-6 Marquand Lib. (SA) N7420 .A77

The laws of contrast of colour: and their application by Michel Eugene Chevreul.  Published 1859.  Available in the Marquand Library (SAX) Rare Books collection ND1259 .C451

Exploding The Frame:  Essay by Ben Shedd.  Available online at: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~benshedd/ExplodingtheFrame.htm

Chapter from Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander, Quill, New York, 1978. Firestone (F) HE8700.8.M3

Essay: At the Heart of It All: The Concept of Presence, by Matthew Lombard and Theresa Ditton.  Available on the web at:   http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol3/issue2/lombard.html

Suggested Reading:

Visual Thinking by Rudolf Arnheim, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1969.
ISBN 0-520-01871-0 Architecture (UES) N70.A693 Architecture (UES) N70.A693 Architecture (UES) N70.A693

Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press, Chesire, CT, 1990. ISBN 0-961-39211-8
Copies in Princeton University Libraries: Firestone (F) Oversize P93.5 .T84 1990q Plasma Physics (PPL) Oversize P93.5 .T84 1990q Chemistry Lib. (SQ) Oversize P93.5 .T84 1990q Engineering Lib. (ST) Oversize P93.5 .T84 1990q Psychology Lib. (SW) Oversize P93.5 .T84 1990q Geosciences Lib. (SG) Oversize P93.5 .T84 1990q Biology Lib. (SZ) Oversize P93.5 .T84 1990q Astrophysics Lib.(SO) P93.5 .T84 1990 Rare Books (GA) Oversize P93.5 .T84 1990q Rare Books (GA) QA76.9.U83 T83 (Non-Circulating)

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press, Chesire, CT, 1990
ISBN: 0-961-39210-X
Copies in Princeton University Libraries:Firestone (F) QA90 .T83 Plasma Physics (PPL) QA90 .T83 Fine Hall Lib. (SM) QA90 .T83 Astrophysics Lib.(SO) QA90 .T83 Chemistry Lib. (SQ) QA90 .T83 Engineering Lib. (ST) QA90 .T83 Engineering Lib. (ST) QA90 .T83 Psychology Lib. (SW) QA90 .T83 Biology Lib. (SZ) QA90 .T83 Woodrow Wilson (SPIA) QA90 .T83 Woodrow Wilson (SPIA) QA90 .T83 Geosciences Lib. (SG) QA276.3 .T837 1990 Enter HOL 1 for holdings Biology Lib. (SZ) QA90 .T83 1992 Enter HOL 2 for holdings Rare Books (GA) No call number available Enter HOL 3 for holdings (Non-Circulating)

Visual design of the user interface : information resolution, interaction of design elements, color for the user interface, typography and icons, design quality / prepared by Edward Tufte for the IBM Design, Armonk, N.Y. : IBM, c1989.  Copies in Princeton University Libraries: Rare Books (GA) QA76.9.U83 T83 (Non-Circulating)

A Primer of Visual Literacy by Donis A. Dondis, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1973. Not Yet in Library

The Sense of Order by E. H. Gombrich, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY 1979
Copies in Princeton University Libraries: Marquand Lib. (SA) NK1505.G6 Psychology Lib. (SW) NK1520.G65 Architecture (UES) NK1520.G65

Notebooks of the Mind by Vera John Steiner, Perennial Library, Harpers & Row, New York, 1985. Copies in Princeton University Libraries: Psychology Lib. (SW) BF408 .J5 1985

Theory and Use of Color by Luigina De Grandis, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1984. Marquand Lib. (SA) QC495 .D3613 1986

Perspective and Other drawing Systems by Fred Dubrey & John Willats, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. NY, 1972, 1983.
Architecture (UES) NC735 .D82 1983

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman, New York : Doubleday, 1990, c1988. Firestone (F) TS171.4 .N67 1990

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