PA178 -- Digital Typography and Visualization
(Autumn 2012)
Wednesday, 8:00--9:40 in C522
News |
Lectures |
References |
- Dec 19th, 2012 C522. Miniprojects presentations.
- Dec 12th, 2012 C522. Visualisation V (Kacvinsky)
- Dec 5th, 2012 C522. Visualisation IV (Kacvinsky)
- Nov 28th, 2012 C522. Visualisation III (Kacvinsky)
- Nov 21th, 2012 C522. Visualisation II (Kacvinsky)
- Nov 14th, 2012 C522. Visualisation I (Kacvinsky)
Readings for next week: A Tour through the Visualization
Zoo Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky. Communications of the ACM,
53(6), pp. 59-67, Jun 2010.
- Nov 7th, 2012 C522. Miniprojects discussion.
Digital typography: word hyphenation with competing patterns.
Scientific visualization,
Visualization principles introduction.
Discussion of examples (URLs) of clever and appealing visualizations.
(Scientific) visualization principles from four books by Edward Tufte.
Homework: Read this paper (or it's translation), and
try the tools mentioned, especially the Google Public Data Explorer.
- Oct 31st, 2012 C522. Canceled due to the illness of
tutor Martin Kacvinsky.
- Oct 24th, 2012 C522. Miniprojects discussion.
Discussion on readings:
Peter Karow, Two
Decades of Typographic Research at URW: a Retrospective.
Hz-algorithm (URW, Ikarus, pdfTeX, luaTeX).
Word hyphenation with competing patterns.
- Oct 17th, 2012 C522. Miniprojects discussion.
The Letter S in METAFONT.
Algorithms for line breaking (first fit, best fit, optimum fit).
Developments at Stanford and URW.
- Oct 10th, 2012 C522. Miniprojects discussion.
Homework evaluation.
Unicode standard. Fonts in TeX (PL, VPL, VF, TFM), concept of virtual fonts.
- Oct 3rd, 2012 C522. Miniproject assignment. Font formats (cont.).
METAFONT, expressivness of font approaches,
principle of optical scaling, metaness, example of
logotype of FI. Unicode standard overview.
Homework by next week (10 points):
Dissasemble one character of one [variant of] Helvetica
font and tell how big is the character description (how many points
used, ...). Hint: use TTX for TrueType or t1utils for Type1.
- Sept 26th, 2012 C522 Fonts. Stratified sampling by Helvetica story.
Font formats, and history of digital font formats (METAFONT,
Type1, Type3, TrueType, OpenType). Separation of metric and glyph
rasterization information. Cubic vs. kvadric splines. Concept of META.
50 years of Helvetica from metalurgy to digital formats. Example of
t1utils and disassembling of Type1 version of Helvetica.
- Sept 19th, 2012 - C416 Course introduction.
Syllabus.
DEK on visual computing,
DEK's advice to
young students, stratified sampling approach.
Helvetica
YouTube channel (full original Helvetica
movie has been removed).
Discussion. Miniprojects.
Homework: by next week, watch movies on Helvetica channel, read/watch the Helvetica story and work out your miniproject specification.
Žákovi, který se hrozil chyb, Mistr řekl: "Ti, kdo nedělají chyby,
chybují nejvíc ze všech - nepokoušejí se o nic nového." Anthony de
Mello: O cestě.
sojka at fi dot muni dot cz --
