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Visual analysis: adding breadth to a computer graphics course

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Visual Analysis adds breadth to a computer graphics course by teaching students to compare and contrast the visual effects of rendering algorithms. Using slides to teach visual analysis minimizes the amount of required lecture time, and the interactive tool TERA facilitates further study outside of class. Visual analysis enhances depth as well as breadth of knowledge, because students become familiar with an algorithm's visual effect before they implement it.

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          cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
          ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 27, Issue 1
          March 1995
          402 pages
          ISSN:0097-8418
          DOI:10.1145/199691
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          • cover image ACM Conferences
            SIGCSE '95: Proceedings of the twenty-sixth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
            March 1995
            436 pages
            ISBN:089791693X
            DOI:10.1145/199688
            • Chairman:
            • Cary Laxer,
            • Editors:
            • Curt M. White,
            • James E. Miller,
            • Judy Gersting

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