CS 1620: Visual Imaging in the Electronic Age

Cross-Listing: ART 1700 (parent), COM S 1620, ENGRI 1620

The course introduces the concepts and ideas behind computer imaging and computer graphics, both software and hardware. Topics include perspective representations, display technology, how television works, bandwidth concepts, digital photography, computer graphics modeling and rendering, matting and compositing, color perception, data acquisition, and volumetric imaging. Historical precedents, primarily from the art world, are used throughout. Other modes of imaging are discussed, including laser scanning, ultrasound, x-rays, and magnetic resonance, each of which is important to medical practice. This is not a course on how to use any particular graphics/imaging program, but rather an explanation of the underlying principles.

Offered: Fall only

Prerequisites: None

Grade options: Letter or S/U

Credit hours: 3

Recent offerings:

• http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs1620/2009fa
• http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs1620/2008fa
  • Don Greenberg
• http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs167/2007fa
  • Don Greenberg