図形情報処理システム (GIPS) による図形教育の試みとその評価

Abstract

Along with the reform of the standard for the establishment of university, the fields and names of departments and courses as well as the systems of researches and education at the diversified universities have been renovated. On the other hand, under the prosperity of the network in the high information society, various computers are widely used as the information processing systems in all of the area.From the light of these facts, it is desirable to execute a newstyle education for computer graphics coped with the revolution of modern society by using the computer in the descriptive geometry. Then, the Graphical Information Processing Systems (GIPS) have been developed in order to execute the graphical education adapted to the diverse need of the present time at the University of Osaka Prefecture (UOP) . The trial education has been enforced by using GIPS for the freshman of the College of Engineering at UOP since 1985.In this report, the fundamental doctrines as well as the educational method for the computer graphics education are proposed as a sample of the new type education. In addition, the excellent drawing rerults in the trial education are described. Finally, the relationships between the results of graphics education and the student' s ability of performing a mental cutting test are summarized.