PA178 Digital Typography and Visualization

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2008
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
Tue 8:00–9:50 B411, Tue 8:00–9:50 B311
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
Course objectives
Main objectives can be summarized as follows: to understand digital font formats and technologies at expert level; to learn the principles of algorithms used in digital typography (hyphenation, line and page breaking, float placement); to understand methods, principles and possibilities of 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
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/
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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