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CS495 | CS Department | Princeton University

Week 2. Sept 16 - Sept 20: 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 5 or 6]

Week 3. Sept 23 - Sept 27: 2nd Project: Design and show large scale image about 4 ways to use display wall in your major area.
Reading: Visual Explanations by Edward Tufte Chapters 4-7
Image size for Frist Campus Center Display Wall: 4096 pixels wide by 1536 pixels high.

Week 4. Sept 30 - Oct 4:  3rd Project: Create large scale image based on Tufte reading.

Week 5. Oct 7 - Oct 11:  4th Project: Design and show large scale image showing depth.  Begin work diaries. Reading:

Week 6. Oct 14 - Oct 18:  Reading: The Power of the Center by Rudolf Arnheim, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1988.
    Reading: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Chapter 16, by Jerry Mander, Quill, New York, 1978.

Week 7. Oct 21 - Oct 25:  5th project: Design and show large scale image on Arnheim reading, Chapters IV, V, VI
    Essay due on: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Chapter 16, by Jerry Mander, Quill, New York, 1978.
    Midterm essays assigned.

Week 9. Nov 4 - Nov 8: 6th Project: Create Short motion project - 1st draft
    Midterm Essays Due

Week 10. Nov 11 - Nov 15:  Sixth Project: Short Motion project, Take 2
    Present Design plans for Project #7. .

Week 11. Nov 18-Nov 22: Reading:  At the Heart of It All: The Concept of Presence, by Matthew Lombard and Theresa Ditton.

Week 13. Dec 2 - Dec 6: Design Project #7 works-in-progress presentations.

Week 14. Dec 9 - Dec 13:   Design Review of Project #7 work.  Final Essay questions assigned.

January 14: Presentation of Projects #7 on large-scale Display Wall, and summary of final project production.

Due January 20: Final take-home essay in lieu of final exam.

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

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
Revised: 09/09/02