Saddle Connectors - An Approach to Visualizing the Topological Skeleton of Complex 3D Vector Fields

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 225-232

  Theisel, Holger ^a   Weinkauf, Tino ^a   Hege, Hans Christian ^a   Seidel, Hans Peter ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

3D flow visualization; Critical points; Separatrices; Vector field topology

Indexed keywords

DATASETS; VECTOR FIELD TOPOLOGY;

DATA STRUCTURES; FLOW VISUALIZATION; SURFACES; TOPOLOGY; VECTORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0242676117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VISUAL.2003.1250376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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