Tracking and visualizing turbulent 3D features

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 129-141

  Silver, Deborah ^a   Wang, Xin ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD; Computer vision; Feature tracking; Isosurfaces; Multidimensional visualization; Scientific visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; DATA STRUCTURES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING;

FEATURE TRACKING; ISOSURFACES; MULTIDIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0031119676     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2945.597796     Document Type: Article

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