Interactive visualization of three-dimensional vector fields with flexible appearance control

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 434-445

  Shen, Han Wei ^a   Li, Guo Shi ^b   Bordoloi, Udeepta D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Appearance control; Flow visualization; Graphics hardware; Line integral convolution; Texture synthesis; Vector field visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

APPEARANCE CONTROL; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; LINE INTEGRAL CONVOLUTION; TEXTURE SYNTHESIS; VECTOR FIELD VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; CONVOLUTION; DATA STRUCTURES; FLOW VISUALIZATION; VECTORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 3042689622     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2004.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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