Hans Havlicek: Visualisation

This is a series of lectures and exercises about pictorial depiction of mathematics.

Lectures

The recent lectures cover the following topics:

• Parallel Projection
• Introduction to POV-Ray
• Central Projection
• Creating Images of Curves and Surfaces with POV-Ray
• Animations

Lecture notes (Visualisierung, in German) can be downloaded from my page on Publications.

Student's Work

See some of the pictures which were created with POV-Ray - The Persistence of Vision Raytracer.

Select among the following topics to enter the gallery:

• Cockles
• Confocal Quadrics
• Dupin Cyclides
• Elliptic Linear Congruence of Revolution
• Hyperosculating Spheres
• Klein Bottle
• Knots
• Saddle Surfaces
• Schwarz Lanterns
• Snails
• Stationary Points
• Striction Curves

Acknowledgements

This was a joint course with Boris Odehnal in the years 2007 and 2008. I gratefully acknowledge his comprehensive contribution. Some sections of the recent lecture notes and several exercises are based on his expertise.