FI:PA178 Digital Typography - Course Information
PA178 Digital Typography and Visualization
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/1/0. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. Ing. Jiří Sochor, CSc.
Department of Visual Computing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D. - Timetable
- Wed 14:00–15:50 C522
- Prerequisites
- Passion for the digital typography and scientific visualization is an advantage.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 46 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should be able to: understand digital font formats and technologies at expert level; make reasoned decisions based on the understanding of the principles of algorithms used in digital typography (hyphenation, line and page breaking, float placement); explain and understand methods, principles and possibilities of scientific visualization (displaying quantitative information, data transformation, conversion and modeling for display and data understanding, use of colors, space, interaction, texturing).
- Syllabus
- Digital font formats characters and glyphs
- concept of meta-font, multiple master fonts
- font formats in PostScript, SVG, Opentype
- font rasterization, aliasing and hinting; font embedding and approximation
- Mathematical typography line and page breaking algorithms; hz-algorithm
- hyphenation algorithms
- float placement algorithms
- Visualization purpose of visualization, visible certainty
- data and image models (1D-nD, hierarchies, graphs, texts)
- visual display of quantitative information
- perception and cognition
- space, projections
- color, color spaces, conversions in pre-press
- interaction, reactivity; animation
- trees and graphs; line drawing, shading and texturing; graphical integrity
- Literature
- Tufte, Edward R. (2006). Beautiful Evidence. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press. ISBN 0961392177.
- Haralambous, Yannis (2007). Fonts and Encodings, O'Reilly, http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/9780596102425
- KNUTH, Donald Ervin. Digital typography. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1999, xv, 685. ISBN 1575860112. info
- TUFTE, Edward R. The visual display of quantitative information. 2nd ed. Cheshire: Graphics Press, 2001, 197 s. ISBN 0-9613921-4-2. info
- TUFTE, Edward R. Visual explanations :images and quantities, evidence and narrative. Cheshire: Graphics Press, 1997, 156 s. ISBN 0-9613921-2-6. info
- TUFTE, Edward R. Envisioning information. Cheshire: Graphics Press, 1990, ii, 126 s. ISBN 0-9613921-1-8. info
- TUFTE, Edward R. The cognitive style of PowerPoint. Cheshire: Graphics Press, 2003, 27 s. ISBN 0-9613921-5-0. info
- Teaching methods
- The course is a mix of classical lectures and discussions in a seminar style, with occasional brainstorming sessions on some miniproject solution or case study presentations prepared by students based on given readings (Tufte).
- Assessment methods
- Final written exam (50 %), miniproject on chosen topic of a course (50 %).
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Teacher's information
- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/PA178/
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
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