Methods and framework for visualizing higher-order finite elements

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 446-460

  Schroeder, William J ^a,b,d   Bertel, François ^a   Malaterre, Mathieu ^a   Thompson, David ^b,e   Pébay, Philippe P ^b,e,f   O'Bara, Robert ^c   Tendulkar, Saurabh ^c  

^a KITWARE INC   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Simmetrix Inc   (United States)

^d Visualization Toolkit (VTK)   (United States)

^e SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basis function; Finite element; Framework; Tessellation

Indexed keywords

BASIS FUNCTION; FRAMEWORK; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; PROGRAMMATIC QUERIES; TESSELLATION;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIALS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA DISPLAY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33744731151     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.74     Document Type: Conference Paper

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