Extracting higher order critical points and topological simplification of 3D vector fields

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 71-

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

^a ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MPI Saarbrücken ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D CLASSIFICATION; CLOSED CONVEX SURFACES; TOPOLOGICAL SIMPLIFICATION; VECTOR FIELDS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION THEORY; TOPOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

VECTORS;

EID: 33749442889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VIS.2005.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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