History and Impact of SciVis V For educational use only: Images are not cleared

Cave Drawings and Early Language Development  Primitive man left behind cave paintings and hieroglyphs.  To save space and time, pictures gradually became stylized and ultimately evolved into characters.

Instructions:  Students: fill in the blanks in this presentation from the teacher’s presentation

Cave Drawings and Early Language Development  As societies became more _____ so did languages; and as travel brought people of different cultures together, written languages evolved further to be more versatile.  Hundreds of characters could be narrowed down to a select set of "letters." An entire language could then be represented using various combinations of ______.

Perspective Drawings  Through _____, artists sought methods to portray images of the world around them.  During the time of the Renaissance, _____ (space and depth relationships) became a very important part of the desire to produce realistic images.

Maps  A map is a _____ representation of a 3D space.  The item can be as large as our solar system or _____, or as small as chromosomal genes.  Maps show our world as a set of _____, lines, and areas, using many different features, such as size, shape, value, texture, pattern, color, and orientation.  The kind of map you use depends on the kind of _____ you want to obtain or analyze.

Maps  ___ Maps – Show roadways and physical boundaries.  ____ Maps – Have contour lines that show elevation.

Maps  ____ Maps – Have information about flight paths.  _____ Maps – Show locations of weather patterns.

Different kinds of Maps  _____ Maps – There are several kinds of concept maps.  A _____ map is organized by placing the central theme or unifying factor in the center of the map. Outwardly radiating _____surrounding the center of the map.

Different kinds of Maps  The _____ concept map presents information in a descending order of importance. The most important information is placed on the top.  The flowchart concept map organizes information in a linear format.

Different kinds of Maps  _____ –Shows locations of specific genes in DNA  _____ – Shows rooms in a building.

Photography  The development of photography depended on understanding the ____ of light to record images and chemical processes to produce permanent images.  The improvement of _____ (celluloid film) and processes allowed everyone to enjoy the photographic process. This process allowed the pictures to be recorded on an easy to use medium.

Television  With the invention of _____, images could be brought into the home.  Television combined ____ with motion and eventually color was added.

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